cottage piano
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The drawing-room at the Hotel de la Fleur was a small room, with a cottage piano, and a suite of mahogany furniture, covered in stamped velvet, neatly arranged around the walls.
From Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
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 George MacDonald
I remember that I saw something like a dark shadow move very quickly and disappear in front of a cottage piano.
From Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by Elliott O'Donnell
In the evening of Marynia's birthday, Ladislaus and Miss Anney for a time found themselves at some distance from the rest of the company, at a cottage piano, decorated with flowers.
From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz
She had also her old cottage piano, with a front of fluted red silk, upon which she sometimes played.
From The Eldest Son by Archibald Marshall
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