Use "calliope" in a sentence
calliope example sentences
calliope
1. Calliope sends more:
2. “There was one place I thought you misperceived the rhythm of Calliope
3. the calliope sound again
4. The calliope on the merry-go-round
5. filled with a young blonde dancing to the calliope music
6. From a distance, it sounded like the kind you’d hear coming from a carnival calliope ride
7. "Are you tired of my yelling, Calliope?" Zoe asked the spider, her voice a little husky
8. “Thank you for the report, Calliope,” answered Dagon
9. Each time I passed the carousel, the wild-eyed horses pumped up and down more frantically with each rotation, and the calliope seemed to pipe with greater frenzy, growing ever more off-key
10. The pumping calliope, the hundred other musics, the laughter and screams of the marks on the thrill rides, the smells and dazzling lights made me a little dizzy
11. Threaded through the crunching electric guitar chords and roiling drums was a Farfisa organ, like the calliope of the minor-league ballpark of his Oklahoma youth
12. With the steam engine so close by, the shouts of the children, and the sound of all the other machines and the calliope music, I didn’t notice the drumbeats at first
13. When we returned to the station, the others had sent several more loads and were working with the calliope, which required some tricky maneuvering
14. The Mechanics doubled their efforts on the calliope, while Lizzie and I made one more pass around the theater to make sure we had removed every last trace of the Mechanics’ presence
15. The soldiers were pounding on the theater’s front doors when the calliope at last made it through the tunnel into the station
16. The calliope was heavier, and while Bessie waited her turn to cross, Henry jumped off and joined the crew moving the calliope
17. The bridge groaned alarmingly as the calliope crossed, but it held
18. The trolley stood like an enchanted calliope, simmering where the sun fell on it
19. Far off on that other still vibrant pier was the carousel that had been turning and grinding out its calliope music since I was a kid
20. With wondrous timing, the calliope downstairs in the rotunda started up, running the carousel
21. But angry? Here's a buck, go buy ten rides on that calliope racetrack
22. The calliope was turned on, but the music was at the end of its roll and the slots flapped around and around
23. Leaving the carnival, I stood by the carousel, heard the calliope playing 'Beautiful Ohio,' and I wept
24. was a drift of calliope music and the rattle of a trap drum
25. The Ferris wheel whirled high and around, with its faint screams, and far away the calliope steamed and sobbed "Beautiful Ohio
26. But no - it was the train, and the calliope sighing, weeping, on that train
27. For a moment, Will watched Jim dance around over there, shirt uplifted, pants going on, while off in night country, panting, churning was this funeral train, all black-plumed cars, licorice-coloured cages, and a sooty calliope clamouring, banging three different hymns mixed and lost, maybe not there at all
28. The carnival train thundered the bridge, The calliope wailed
29. Going away, away, the calliope pipes shimmered with star explosions, but no one sat at the high keyboard
30. More shadows rustled from the train, passing the animal cages where darkness prowled with unlit eyes and the calliope stood mute save for the faintest idiot tune the breeze piped wandering up the flues
31. 'Well,' said Will, 'last night, did you hear that calliope - '
32. Reaching out from the shadows among the calliope tubes and moon-skinned drums the man hoisted Jim yelling out on the air
33. Somewhere in the carousel machinery there were taps and brass knockings, a faint squeal and whistle of calliope steam
34. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes
35. Then the calliope gave a particularly violent cry of foul murder which made dogs howl in far counties, and Mr Cooger, spinning, ran and leaped on the backwhirling universe of animals who, tail first, head last, pursued an endless circling night toward unfound and never to be discovered destinations
36. Another and another time around under the sky and trees and Will whispering, Jim counting the times around, around, while the night air warmed to summer heat by friction of sun-metal brass, the passionate backturned flight of beasts, wore the wax doll down and down and washed him clean with the still stranger musics until all ceased, all died away to stillness the calliope shut up its brassworks, the ironmongery machines hissed off, and with a last faint whine like desert sands blown backup Arabian hourglasses, the carousel rocked on seaweed waters and stood still
37. 'Jim, the music that the calliope played when Mr Cooger got younger - '
38. The calliope howled, boiled steam, ran ancient dry, then played nothing, its keys gibbering as only chitterings boiled up through the vents
39. Its calliope fluted up malodorous steams of music
40. The flourished drums, the old-womanish shriek of calliope, the shadow drift of creatures far stranger than he, did not witch the Indian's yellow hawk-fierce gaze
41. So, each taking his part, in their own good time, the boys told of the wandering-by lightning-rod salesman, the predictions of storms to come, the long-after-midnight train, the suddenly inhabited meadow, the moonblown tents, the untouched but full-wept calliope, then the light of noon showering over an ordinary midway with hundreds of Christians wandering through but no lions for them to be tossed to, only the maze where time lost itself backward and forward in waterfall mirrors, only the OUT OF ORDER carousel, the dead supper hour, Mr Cooger, and the boy with the eyes that had seen all the glistery tripes of the world shaped like hung-and-dripping sins and all the sins tenterhooked and running red and verminous, this boy with the eyes of a man who has lived forever, seen too much, might like, to die but doesn't know how
42. Then, when it's frozen you stiff, it plays that fine sweet soul-searching music that smells of fresh-washed frocks of women dancing on back-yard lines in May, that sounds like haystacks trampled into wine, all that blue sky and summer night-on-the-lake kind of tune until your head bangs with the drums that look like full moons beating around the calliope
43. Did you hear the carousel calliope tonight? Did you know, someone dear to you was down to the carousel? Will? Willy? William
44. Far down the midway, the carousel steamed, the calliope tortured itself with musics
45. The calliope steam-throb whispered, tatted, trilled
46. And instead made his feet step to his own fear, jump to his own tune, a hum cramped back by throat, held fast by lungs, which shook the bones of his head and drowned the calliope away
47. The calliope played sweet
48. The calliope simmered, moronic with wind
49. 297 one would think that he purposed to drop Tethys for ever, but then come Apollo, Calliope, Urania!
