great organ
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The great organ – built in the 18th Century – was unaffected by either heat or water on the night of the fire.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024
The models streamed down the steps on either side of the hall’s great organ, before setting on a path that had been cut through the standing crowd.
From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2022
Over 100 firefighters working together were able to get the fire under control but said the church's great organ, revered as the “soul of the cathedral” by worshippers, sustained massive damages.
From Fox News • Jul. 18, 2020
The great organ, comprising some 8,000 pipes, has water damage but is expected to make a full recovery.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2019
Pendent pearls on vines starred white with bloom; a dun deer at gaze, knee-deep in feathering willow-grass; a hermit-bird his morning hymn, cloistered in the vaulted monastery where the great organ stirs among the pines!
From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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