cottage piano
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Charmian was playing a Polonaise of Chopin's on a cottage piano.
From The Way of Ambition by Soper, J. H. Gardner
Marian was one of your silly sentimental nice things; on account of its associations, she really preferred the cottage piano to the grand.
From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold
A cottage piano lurched forward drunkenly on three legs, with the keyboard ripped open, the treble notes on the ground, the bass incongruously in the air.
From The Rough Road by Locke, William John
She was now no more content with her little cottage piano, but had an instrument of quite another capacity on which to accompany the violin of the blacksmith.
From Mary Marston by MacDonald, George
A hideous marble bust on a pedestal occupied a corner, and along a wall was a very small cottage piano.
From Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
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