musical box

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First recorded in 1820–30

Anne-Marie was a musical-box, ten years old, with yellow hair, whom he had wanted to get hold of for the last six months.
The Devourers|Annie Vivanti Chartres
Never mind, Uncle Joe, Charley's going to mend the musical-box.
Mrs. Bindle|Hebert Jenkins
Mr. Thoreau has twice listened to the music of the spheres, which, for our private convenience, we have packed into a musical-box.
Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 2|Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Charley's coming in later; he's going to mend Aunt Anne's musical-box," was Mrs. Bindle's next announcement.
Mrs. Bindle|Hebert Jenkins

Is it, for example, quite impossible to supply them with that not uninteresting development of the musical-box—the megaphone?
The Siege of Mafeking (1900)|J. Angus Hamilton.