The mechanical calliope is louder now, adding to the urgency in my voice. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2010 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
Incidentally, you'll be pegged as a first-of-May if you don't call the calliope a cally-ope. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3] Reference
I was able to get the calliope redone, and that was. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Isabella Cannon, Spring 1993. Interview G-0188. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Music: (you hear ... calliope music. sorry, in joke.). From Wordnik.com. [most serial killers don't have a particularly happy childhood.] Reference
I have three, they all enjoy muse and calliope magazine. From Wordnik.com. [If They Could Turn Back Time] Reference
Usually, the soundtrack is recorded organ and calliope music. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
Oh, calliope, your (unintelligible) and your (unintelligible). From Wordnik.com. [In from the Cold with White Hinterland] Reference
The man inside the calliope, the fireman, was too industrious. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
The man with the steam calliope sat exhausted over his keyboard. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
Then it shrieked a riot of piercing notes like a broken calliope. From Wordnik.com. [‘Fragment’] Reference
The John Williams music gave way to Beach Boys tunes on a calliope. From Wordnik.com. [Ken Levine: "I'm Going to Disneyland!"] Reference
Bluffs, I heard the shrill notes of a calliope that reminded me that. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
The circus is in town; the creationist calliope is wheezing away again. From Wordnik.com. [The circus is in town; the creationist calliope is wheezing away again - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
In the circus, he played the calliope and did stage acts with big cats. From Wordnik.com. [Five People Born on April 11 | myFiveBest] Reference
Walter was threshing about furiously now, yelling with calliope intensity. From Wordnik.com. [The Martian Way]
The hoops caught fire, and calliope music began to play in the background. From Wordnik.com. [Achille's Choice]
For that real Waits effect, though, you should see if you can rent a calliope. From Wordnik.com. [WorldCon Schedule] Reference
Oh, calliope, I need your impartial light to guide me, my love is gone tonight. From Wordnik.com. [In from the Cold with White Hinterland] Reference
John Robinson's circus boasted a steam calliope, which dispensed "biled music.". From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Oh, calliope, your archaic smile or what lurks behind makes your lips look alive. From Wordnik.com. [In from the Cold with White Hinterland] Reference
Oh, calliope, I need your impartial eyes to guide me with my way (unintelligible). From Wordnik.com. [In from the Cold with White Hinterland] Reference
With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing the calliope crashed to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Blinded By The Light] Reference
This man was a human calliope, and had the voice of an African lion when out of meat. From Wordnik.com. [A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel] Reference
They got addicted to the sound of calliope music and don't want the spectacle to end. From Wordnik.com. [Will Durst: Post Pennsylvania Primary Punditry] Reference
If it were daytime, you could hear the calliope music from the paddle-wheelers playin '. From Wordnik.com. [License Invoked]
The looped sample of spooky calliope music adds to the feeling of a solipsistic nightmare. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: February 27, 2000 - March 4, 2000 Archives] Reference
The circus is in town; the creationist calliope is wheezing away again - The Panda's Thumb. From Wordnik.com. [The circus is in town; the creationist calliope is wheezing away again - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
A street-corner calliope played the national anthem rather than Take Me Out to the Ballgame. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Fans' presence makes a statement] Reference
Lissa, ringmaster, blew her whistle and Goss, the Arvanian, landed on the keys of the calliope. From Wordnik.com. [Circus World]
Dr. Weems borrowed a hostler and four horses, went to Number One, and came back with the calliope. From Wordnik.com. [Elephant Song]
Immediately the little girl set up a yell that, as Burd declared, could have scarcely been equaled by a steam calliope. From Wordnik.com. [The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air] Reference
The merry-go-round cranked out its four tunes of imitation calliope music while fireflies blinked along the edge of the woods. From Wordnik.com. [Prayers To Broken Stones]
Grady, not strong enough financially to annex a calliope, altered an old animal cage that resembled the exterior of a calliope. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
When the kid found out we were going to leave him at home he started up a howl like a calliope and fastened himself as tight as. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
The imitation was so perfect that every fellow could imagine again the tail end of a gaudy circus parade and the steaming calliope. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
Their manufactured enthusiasm is sustained by electricity, like the calliope one hears from the merry-go-round that the children ride. From Wordnik.com. [The Carnival Barker: Recalling a Dying Art] Reference
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