For twenty minutes I behave like an organ-grinder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917] Reference

I'm just the monkey at SF, Pat's the organ-grinder.    From Wordnik.com.  [When a blogger goes to work for a presidential candidate.] Reference

But suddenly the organ-grinder struck up another tune.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

An organ-grinder struck up a tune in the street outside.    From Wordnik.com.  [between silk and cyanide]

Dancing round the organ-grinder at the corner of the street.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Jolly Jingle-Book] Reference

Why vote for the monkey when you can elect the organ-grinder?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

But why vote for the monkey when you can elect the organ-grinder?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why vote for the monkey when you can elect the organ-grinder?] Reference

"Her father is a poor, consumptive organ-grinder," whispered one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children's Edition of Touching Incidents : and Remarkable Answers to Prayer] Reference

The organ-grinder, her father, Sylvester, is dead in southern Italy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lost World] Reference

Mother doesn't answer but waves away an organ-grinder and his monkey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray] Reference

Why vote for the monkey, after all, when you can have the organ-grinder?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Oh, they must be monkies, the property of some enterprising organ-grinder.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself.] Reference

A French lady on one occasion saw an organ-grinder ill-treating his monkey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

"If I were an Italian I too would be an organ-grinder!" he at length exclaimed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

No doorman, no porter, no taximan, no organ-grinder, not a tail or shadow in sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Puppet on a Chain]

While the organ-grinder is away, Iain Dale's monkey Shane Greer has been quite busy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-09-09] Reference

The organ-grinder piteously put in his claim to a penny from the benevolent stranger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman in White] Reference

It is a hint that she was once one of those children who danced to the organ-grinder.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE CHILDREN] Reference

Outside — in thanksgiving — at the very door, the organ-grinder was playing the waltz.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man of Property] Reference

A few minutes later Juggie exclaimed to the disconsolate circle, "Dar's de organ-grinder.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play] Reference

If this animal belongs to an organ-grinder, he will be around for him very soon, you may be sure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lilac Lady] Reference

Apropos of the organ-grinder, I may tell you, dearest, that today I experienced a double misfortune.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor Folk] Reference

Svidrigaïlov treated Katia and the organ-grinder and some singers and the waiters and two little clerks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crime and Punishment] Reference

Then, and only then, we might be getting to the organ-grinder rather than just his hapless little monkeys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Lord Levy Sing Like a Canary?] Reference

Assisting the organ-grinder one might see a trained monkey or dancing dogs and one could go on almost indefinitely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sounds of Victorian London] Reference

At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less moth-eaten man who grinds an organ — and once he was an organ-grinder!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference

"It's the Calvinistic organ-grinder," I whispered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Actions and Reactions] Reference

It was once my privilege to know an old organ-grinder named.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roadmender] Reference

The organ-grinder picked up the shafts of his wagon and trundled it away.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Bishop's Carriage] Reference

One day while I was hard at work, an organ-grinder came into the street below.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic Egg and Other Stories] Reference

The organ-grinder, after his day's crime, plays his accursed machine for love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Actions and Reactions] Reference

Outside -- in thanksgiving -- at the very door, the organ-grinder was playing the waltz.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference

Flamby's visit, except an old Italian, who was a model, but who looked like an organ-grinder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orchard of Tears] Reference

"An 'I want a organ-grinder to the party that gets my half o' our picayunes," insisted Felix.    From Wordnik.com.  [Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales] Reference

There was another organ-grinder there grinding out coon-songs, to which other piccaninnies danced.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Bishop's Carriage] Reference