speaking trumpet
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A ladder, a dress dummy and a speaking trumpet are all that’s needed to bring the most unruly fantasy elements to life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2017
Ben sent these words through an impromptu speaking trumpet made with one hand curved around his mouth.
From Mabel's Mistake by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
Has any body got a speaking trumpet? or do you think my lungs so capacious and powerful, that they may take its place?'
From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny
"Yes; papa's study is up in the tower there, and he calls down through the speaking trumpet."
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
But meeting daddy at the door, she was forcibly detained, and subjected to his deafening vociferations, rendered doubly aggravating, by his using the ear of his auditor as one would a speaking trumpet.
From Little Wolf A Tale of the Western Frontier by Cornelius, M. A.
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