I'd like to see these communists tarred, feathered, roped in concertina, and dunped just south of the US international border. From Wordnik.com. [An Important Revelation] Reference
What was it you called the concertina?. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny's First Play] Reference
The humidifier needs a replaceable 'wick' - a kind of concertina-like filter. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
Pain or no, though, he folded up like a concertina. From Wordnik.com. [Advance and Retreat]
"Do you feel a spasmodic fluttering in the concertina?". From Wordnik.com. [You Should Worry Says John Henry] Reference
You know, there was concertina wire around the two U.S. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 16, 2007] Reference
These two vehicles had been surrounded by concertina wire. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 16, 2007] Reference
Two strands of concertina barbed wire, like the fire base had. From Wordnik.com. [1968]
They found that the attackers had breached the concertina wire. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 16, 2007] Reference
I remember concertina wire and cinder blocks and emptied streets. From Wordnik.com. [Big Picture] Reference
Happenings did not of them concertina greatly, but only in fairy king. From Wordnik.com. [Berkeley Stations] Reference
Ivan with his violin, Semen with his concertina and Nicholas with his drum. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
While I write I hear the cheerful strains of a concertina which he is playing. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
Be sat down in middle of tarmac, surrounded by concertina wire or barbed wire. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2002] Reference
It was hard to imagine the crumpled concertina of red metal had ever been a Ford Escort. From Wordnik.com. [Conferences are Murder]
You know, we're inside a concentration camp with concertina wire and guard towers and all. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2009] Reference
She worked at the piano again; now she wrestled with the concertina, then tackled the banjo. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"] Reference
He dropped his song and his concertina at the same moment, and scrambled up the nearest tree. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, Jan. 2, 1892] Reference
I can pet up wi 'the melodian or the concertina; but yon triangle thing I wudna hae i' the hoose. From Wordnik.com. [My Man Sandy] Reference
It had apparently died of suffocation, as sixteen ivory concertina-stops were found in its throat. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, Jan. 2, 1892] Reference
We had the concertina brought in again and sang several hymns to which they listened very quietly. From Wordnik.com. [Notable Women of Modern China] Reference
He used to be the happiest little space joker in the system, singing all the time, playing a concertina. From Wordnik.com. [The Space Pioneers] Reference
Tiny parallelograms, each with a facility to shrivel or stretch, to concertina and overlap their neighbour. From Wordnik.com. [Death Masking Love] Reference
I heard the notes of a concertina and soon, going to the front door, I saw a young girl singing in the street. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Road] Reference
All stared amazed at the strange contrivance which played at one and the same time concertina, violin and drum. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
That wasn't a success, so they did the concertina touch, and put three coaches out of action, including the kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915] Reference
The camel had a halting gait -- and as he walked he alternately elongated and contracted like a gigantic concertina. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
In one portion of the camp, the detainees are broken up into rectangular pens with cyclone fences and concertina wire. From Wordnik.com. [Scared Straight: Iraqi Style] Reference
She made music for them with her concertina and banjo; sang to them; chatted with them; laughed with them; patted them. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"] Reference
Sheridan light tanks took up positions behind concertina wire between the march route and tony neighborhoods up the hill. From Wordnik.com. [Caught In The Middle] Reference
Several are fantastically dressed and equipped with every available instrument -- violin, drum, concertina and accordion. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
And trying to build up a national force from Baghdad behind the concertina wire is maybe not the easiest way to go about it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2003] Reference
Knut and Otto crept off miserably into the garden, and that evening there was no dancing, and the Bear-mother's concertina was silent. From Wordnik.com. [Soap-Bubble Stories For Children] Reference
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