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
Then his eye focussed itself sleepily on two officers leaning over the rail, both with medal ribbons upon their white coats, while one carried his speaking trumpet.
From With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)
This was addressed through a speaking trumpet to the old Church Hulk alongside; but as she had never been known to move for years past, what the first lord said was without effect.
From The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Clynton, Richard
I ran speedily off for Tom’s old battered speaking trumpet, and we were very close to the flag-ship when I hailed her, in true pirate fashion.
From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Stables, Gordon
He had never before handled a speaking trumpet, so his initial essay was brief: “Can you hear?”
From His Unknown Wife by Tracy, Louis
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