speaking trumpet
a trumpet-shaped instrument used to carry the voice a great distance or held to the ear by a deaf person to aid his hearing
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How to use speaking trumpet in a sentence
“Silence there, fore and aft—every man to his station,” cried the first-lieutenant, through his speaking trumpet.
Newton Forster | Captain Frederick MarryatThe first thing was to communicate with them; and this I first attempted by means of the speaking trumpet.
The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" | Harry CollingwoodJohn gave him a gigantic nod: equivalent to an answer in the affirmative, delivered through a speaking trumpet.
The Cricket on the Hearth | Charles DickensThe Indians were still continuing their signals, and Valentine raised his hands to his mouth in the shape of a speaking trumpet.
The Pirates of the Prairies | Gustave AimardA man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet of a voice of his, his early ignorance and poverty.
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