Dancing was tabooed, but a "melodeon" was carted to the dock and hymns were sung.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kirk on Rutgers Farm] Reference

Lin ran her fingers over the keys of the melodeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

Ye can't foller a fiddle an 'sing, ye got to hev a melodeon or accordion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

Almira's melodeon out to the garden, and closed by repeating the Lord's prayer in concert.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Missionary Twig] Reference

Light the stage very little, and produce discordant sounds on a melodeon in the ante-room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants] Reference

She could not imagine how the singing could be anything without her voice and the melodeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

Billy's flute and the melodeon did not harmonize as the melodeon had only three notes left in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

In the second view, the pedestal must slowly revolve, while a plaintive air is played on the melodeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants] Reference

There was an old-fashioned melodeon in the living-room of the ranch house, and it was very much out of tune.    From Wordnik.com.  [Injun and Whitey to the Rescue] Reference

If a melodeon is used as an accompaniment to the piece, it should be played to imitate the roaring of the ocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants] Reference

Anything one was likely to want could be had there, -- even a melodeon and those inevitable Patent-Office Reports.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference

Across the room, Amin was showing the American wife how to play his musical instrument, which he called a melodeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kahawa]

Despite the protests of the parents, the old melodeon, notwithstanding its age and other infirmities, was worked overtime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

Needham, & Co., and it was as decided an improvement in the melodeon as the introduction of the hammer in the harpsichord.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.] Reference

Lionel Leopold dear Henry Flower earnestly Mr Leopold Bloom envisaged battered candlesticks melodeon oozing maggoty blowbags.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

The supper was not over ere Lin and Alfred were in the parlor with the melodeon endeavoring to sing the songs of the minstrels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

Brother Joe would have toys and a sled, Sister Lizzie anything she wanted, Brother Will anything he needed, a melodeon for Lin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

Nor were the little band of minstrels, whose rehearsals had been checked by the fire and the loss of the melodeon, lost sight of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

In front of these old stalls, stood the church's latest luxury, a melodeon, and above them hung the tapestries of its richer past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference

She was as long as possible about closing the melodeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Heidenhoff's Process] Reference

The fiddler scraped a fox trot, and Eve's melodeon joined in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flaming Jewel] Reference

She rose with a rustle and moved toward the ancient melodeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Galusha the Magnificent] Reference

The melodeon and the hymn book were in accord as to the tune, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keziah Coffin] Reference

The melodeon was not, originally, designed for the Gothic worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Backlog Studies] Reference

There are depths in music which the melodeon, even when it is called.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

Did you ever see anything like those figures he is drawing on the melodeon?.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern] Reference

Besides, those who sat in front began to be discontented with the melodeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Backlog Studies] Reference

One of her crew sat on the forecastle playing the "Swanee River" on a melodeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918] Reference

Ebeneezer, having found a knife somewhere, was diligently scratching the melodeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern] Reference

The ancient melodeon, recently prescribed for and operated upon by the repairer from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Galusha the Magnificent] Reference

I need not say to those who have ever heard a melodeon, that there is nothing like it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Backlog Studies] Reference

A few moments thereafter the sound of a squeaky melodeon came from within the building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keziah Coffin] Reference

So he lounged over to the melodeon, somewhat surprised to find that "It" was still there.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern] Reference

I didn't have any time to learn painting or fine manners, or any music, except to play Moody-and-Sankeys on the melodeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faith Doctor A Story of New York] Reference

Then you could do your paintin ',' she says, 'an' get you a new melodeon for the Sunday School, or whatever 'tis you want.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Neighbors] Reference

A melodeon supplanted the flute, and when he was sixteen he attained the glory of a piano, a rare possession in those times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference