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  • In my room, for instance, I have gathered a collection of objects that are important to me, including a dusty accordion on which I can play a few sad songs, a large bundle of notes on the activities of the Baudelaire orphans, and a blurry photograph, taken a very long time ago, of a woman whose name is Beatrice.†   (source)
  • The pleats around her hips are stretched open like accordion bellows.†   (source)
  • Russia collapses like an accordion.†   (source)
  • He also played the bass fiddle, the accordion and the piano.†   (source)
  • Buckley was standing now, but he looked first down at his shoes and then over his shoulder, out past the window to where the planes were parked, disgorging their passengers into accordioned tubes.†   (source)
  • Warming up was a little orchestra, made up of just an accordion, a battered trombone, and a musical saw that Horace played with a bow.†   (source)
  • It's a paperback, and it got flooded, so the pages are probably bloated, but I don't think she—" and then he cut me off with, "Yeah, it's right here," and I turned around and he was holding it, the pages fanned out like an accordion from Longwell, Jeff, and Kevin's prank, and I walked over to him and took it and sat down on her bed.†   (source)
  • The guests sit facing them in folding metal chairs; the accordion wall between two windowless banquet rooms, with dropped ceilings, has been opened up to expand the space.†   (source)
  • Juan impressed all the guests with the wonderful way he played the guitar, the harmonica, and the accordion.†   (source)
  • The front end of the car was crumpled around the tree's trunk, the hood folded like an accordion to the passenger-side fender.†   (source)
  • Hannah saw that there were three musicians in all: the clarinet, the violin, and an accordion.†   (source)
  • He picked up a large pole with an accordion-looking metal box on the end.†   (source)
  • Of course it's an accordion."†   (source)
  • His face puffs up like an accordion.†   (source)
  • Old Coco Chanel really outdid herself; my dress is HOT, pale, pale blue silk, all scrunched up on top like an accordion, so my being flat-chested doesn't even show, then straight and skinny the rest of the way down, all the way to my matching pale, pale blue silk high heels.†   (source)
  • The rattle of the gate accordioning back, the bump of the doors opening and closing.†   (source)
  • Her skin was like an accordion it kept expanding, more and more, until she was holding the flap of skin a foot away from her body.†   (source)
  • Atop it was a camera, a great boxy thing with an accordionlike lens.†   (source)
  • In that tiny burst of light, I saw a closet—its accordion doors halfway open.†   (source)
  • The band wound down and the accordion player's mouth fell open when Jake wiggled down behind the secretary, coming close to smooching her behind right there in front of God and everybody.†   (source)
  • The Deliverator winces, imagining the garlicky topping accordioning into the back wall of the box.†   (source)
  • I found photos of him as a young man playing an accordion, as a middle-aged man dressed in a Santa suit (he loved playing Santa), and as an older man, clutching a stuffed bear bigger than he was.†   (source)
  • There were cockfights in the patios, accordion music on the street corners, riders on thoroughbred horses, rockets and bells.†   (source)
  • It was a large box camera with an accordion apparatus for the lens, unwieldy and as heavy as a stone around his neck, and he disliked it thoroughly.†   (source)
  • The doors folded shut like a noiseless accordion.†   (source)
  • He knew the lyrics of some two hundred hymns and ballads-a repertoire ranging from "The Old Rugged Cross" to Cole Porter-and, in addition to the guitar, he could play the harmonica, the accordion, the banjo, and the xylophone.†   (source)
  • Me, thought Will, seeing the guillotine flash, the Egyptian mirrors unfold accordions of light, and the sulphur-skinned devil-man sipping lava, like gunpowder tea.†   (source)
  • Or perhaps--Mr. Jankowski--you completed a performance degree on the accordion?†   (source)
  • The next song starts up from the speaker, loud and clangy and a lot of accordion.†   (source)
  • There was one on an accordion, another on a fiddle, and a third was miscellaneous on maracas and triangle and drums when needed.†   (source)
  • I play the accordion.†   (source)
  • The room opened and shut like an accordion before her fevered vision; the floor heaved and trembled under her stumbling feet.†   (source)
  • Under the bandshell the accordion player struggled with his instrument and slammed his boot on the boards in countertime and stepped back and the trumpet player came forward.†   (source)
  • His hand was prying between the accordion pleats of the door as he ran alongside the bus.†   (source)
  • " "I just bought this accordion," Lippy said.†   (source)
  • When the first Humvee slowed down at the intersection, each vehicle behind was forced to slow down, creating an accordion effect.†   (source)
  • I'm bending a blade of grass into an accordion of squares.†   (source)
  • "Well it's my birthday, too!" he yelled, and the accordion shrieked to life.†   (source)
  • He has so many wrinkles his face is like an accordion.†   (source)
  • But that girl that wants to play the accordion for you today is old enough to be a mother.†   (source)
  • When he exhaled, Paul could hear a slight wheeze, like air escaping from an old accordion.†   (source)
  • His wife played the accordion when it came time to sing hymns.†   (source)
  • I was pounded between crushing electrical pressures; pumped between live electrodes like an accordion between a player's hands.†   (source)
  • She sees his teeth and his eyes, his cheeks and his jet-black hair swelling and shrinking like an accordion.†   (source)
  • So much salt had dried into my cotton shirt that it was creased into rigid accordion wrinkles.†   (source)
  • Half an eternity later, a nurse wearing a top decorated with dog cartoons walked over, crouched down to next to Doris, and asked if she wanted to go to the accordion concert before dinner.†   (source)
  • I pulled my wings in, feeling them fold, hot from exercise, into a tight accordion on either side of my spine.†   (source)
  • She has an accordion printed on her T-shirt, and as she spins around, she grasps two strategically located points of material and, as she says, "I play my accordion on my T-shirt.†   (source)
  • An accordion player moved through the crowd, muted strains of Bavarian music coming from his instrument.†   (source)
  • Junior's true name was Jurvis Roy, shortened at some point to J. R. and then re-expanded, accordion-like, to Junior.†   (source)
  • Water piped out from the accordion folds.†   (source)
  • A black man in a checkered shirt and purple pants playing La Rose de la France on his accordion.†   (source)
  • Moon Orchid left fans unfolded and dragons with accordion bodies dangling from doorknobs.†   (source)
  • And when he reached the small villages, the little portable altar was set up in the school house or a private dwelling, a hymn or two sung with someone playing the accordion, or the banjo.†   (source)
  • We'll have a barrel of funfunfun, the voices clamorously chorused from below, the dreadful ersatz polka stuck now in its groove, repeating over and over a faint fat chord from an accordion.†   (source)
  • But at dawn (the sleepiest time When one could sleep forever) The accordion struck up, Once again, at leaving.†   (source)
  • At the corner of Swanston and Collins Streets an Italian was playing a very large and garish accordion, and playing it very well indeed.†   (source)
  • Holding his rows of little black-rimmed fingers together like a modest accordion, he said, "Two ladies going to Cork."†   (source)
  • The face was there again—his accordion face.   (source)
  • I thought of the singer Ahmad Zahir, who had played the accordion at my thirteenth birthday.   (source)
  • He carried the accordion with him during the entirety of the war.   (source)
  • ...and spotted an American flag sticker on the accordion case at her feet.   (source)
  • Again, Himmel Street was a trail of people, and again, Papa left his accordion.   (source)
  • The accordion remained strapped to her chest.   (source)
  • The accordion must have ached her, but she remained.   (source)
  • When you wake up, I'll play accordion for you.   (source)
  • His legs gave way and his head hit the accordion case.   (source)
  • At times, in that basement, she woke up tasting the sound of the accordion in her ears.   (source)
  • That infernal accordion, it was blocking my view!   (source)
  • "Book, sandpaper, pencil," he ordered her, "and accordion!" once she was already gone.   (source)
  • In the kitchen on those mornings, Papa made the accordion live.   (source)
  • Looking across, Hans Hubermann was packing the accordion away.   (source)
  • One afternoon, she lifted the accordion from its case and polished it with a rag.   (source)
  • Later, they remembered the accordion but no one noticed the book.   (source)
  • He sat up and told her about the accordion of the previous night, and Frau Holtzapfel.   (source)
  • He dropped the accordion and his silver eyes continued to rust.   (source)
  • Papa's fingers desecrated the accordion, murdering song after song, no matter how hard he tried.   (source)
  • The accordion looked at her through the hole in the case.   (source)
  • That night was also the first time Papa played his accordion at home for months.   (source)
  • It was the accordion that most likely spared him from total ostracism.   (source)
  • An unhappy-looking accordion, peering through its eaten case.   (source)
  • On his third night at home, he played the accordion in the kitchen.   (source)
  • He brought the accordion down and sat close to where Max used to sit.   (source)
  • Thankfully, it turned up, buried behind the accordion in the cupboard.   (source)
  • Did you know I saw you with Papa's accordion?   (source)
  • Apparently, while he was still sober, Hans was invited to the stage to play the accordion.   (source)
  • Rosa was sitting with the accordion, praying.   (source)
  • Papa sits with the accordion at his feet.   (source)
  • "Please," she said, "my papa's accordion."   (source)
  • A man walked past with a broken accordion case and Liesel could see the instrument inside.   (source)
  • "You know my accordion?" he said, and there the story began.   (source)
  • We're going to the Amper—upstream, where I used to practice the accordion.   (source)
  • Luckily, he would soon be leaving for the Knoller with his accordion.   (source)
  • Do you play the accordion, by any chance?   (source)
  • Could you look after my accordion, Liesel?   (source)
  • QUESTION TWO "Do you still play the accordion?"   (source)
  • She looked to where the man was taking the accordion and followed him.   (source)
  • Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion.   (source)
  • The girl let her hold her hand on top of the accordion case, which sat between them.   (source)
  • He still plays that accordion your mother told you about—your father's.   (source)
  • Just that pathetic accordion in those dirt holes every night.   (source)
  • The sound of the accordion was, in fact, also the announcement of safety.   (source)
  • The Complete Duden Dictionary and Thesaurus featuring: champagne and accordions.   (source)
    accordions = a musical instrument held in the hands that has a keyboard and two rigid sides with parallel folds in the middle that can be filled with air and compressed by pushing on the rigid ends
  • One day I passed Edith, the homeless woman who plays the accordion every day on the corner of Sutter and Stockton,   (source)
    accordion = a musical instrument held in the hands that has a keyboard and two rigid sides with parallel folds in the middle that can be filled with air and compressed by pushing one of the rigid sides
  • Some days Papa told her to get back into bed and wait a minute, and he would return with his accordion and play for her.   (source)
  • On many nights, she'd watched Rosa sit with the accordion and pray with her chin on top of the bellows.   (source)
  • We were bombed, she thought, and now she turned to the man at her side and said, "That's my papa's accordion."   (source)
  • Or at least, words and a man who taught him the accordion … "First things first," Hans Hubermann said that night.   (source)
  • For nearly an hour, she remained, spread out under the kitchen table, till Papa came home and played the accordion.   (source)
  • A PAINTED IMAGE Rosa with Accordion.   (source)
  • Later, when she woke up from her usual dream and crept again to the hallway, Rosa was still there, as was the accordion.   (source)
  • Eventually, when Liesel returned to bed, the image of Rosa Hubermann and the accordion would not leave her.   (source)
  • All that was really left of Erik Vandenburg was a few personal items and the fingerprinted accordion.   (source)
  • This one was sent out by the breath of an accordion, the odd taste of champagne in summer, and the art of promise-keeping.   (source)
  • Whenever they had a break, to eat or drink, he would play the accordion, and it was this that Liesel remembered best.   (source)
  • It was a man a year older than himself—a German Jew named Erik Vandenburg—who taught him to play the accordion.   (source)
  • The accordion case fell from her grip.   (source)
  • She didn't see him watching as he played, having no idea that Hans Hubermann's accordion was a story.   (source)
  • Papa, who'd forgotten everything—even his accordion—rushed back to her and rescued the suitcase from her grip.   (source)
  • He stood and strapped it on in the alps of broken houses and played the accordion with kindness silver eyes and even a cigarette slouched on his lips.   (source)
  • It took approximately three-quarters of an hour to explain two wars, an accordion, a Jewish fist fighter, and a basement.   (source)
  • She knew that for the next few days, Mama would be walking around with the imprint of an accordion on her body.   (source)
  • On those evenings, at the end of the street, accordion case in hand, he would turn around, just before Frau Diller's corner shop, and see the figure who had replaced his wife in the window.   (source)
  • This, it said, is your accordion.   (source)
  • They sat maybe thirty meters down from it, in the grass, writing the words and reading them aloud, and when darkness was near, Hans pulled out the accordion.   (source)
  • Many evenings, he would walk into the living room (which doubled as the Hubermanns' bedroom), pull the accordion from the old cupboard, and squeeze past in the kitchen to the front door.   (source)
  • As days turned into weeks, there was now, if nothing else, a beleaguered acceptance of what had transpired—all the result of war, a promise keeper, and one piano accordion.   (source)
  • On the TV screen a pair of accordion players are dueling, but Gianna has turned off the sound.†   (source)
  • And his mother's cooking and his father's carpentry, him playing the accordion.†   (source)
  • "It doesn't sound much like an accordion to me," said Flora.†   (source)
  • The accordion player now began to play a jaunty little melody reminiscent of an English carol.†   (source)
  • The first one was a drawing of a accordion and told about a band named "H.†   (source)
  • I hopped in backward, and the ropes creaked like the devil's own accordion.†   (source)
  • The accordion man played the familiar notes.†   (source)
  • She looked short and uncertain, like an accordion in pajamas.†   (source)
  • It was a dimly lit room, with foldable chairs, and an accordion player sitting in the corner.†   (source)
  • "Think of the universe as an accordion," said William Spiver.†   (source)
  • He paused, and I could hear him wheezing, the sound like air through an old accordion.†   (source)
  • Cordelia in an iron lung, then, being breathed, as an accordion is played.†   (source)
  • She manipulated the image so it squeezed in and out like an accordion.†   (source)
  • THE BOY WITH THE ACCORDION Misha and I wrote twenty-one letters back and forth.†   (source)
  • Shit, my old man played the accordion but he was a Polack like me.†   (source)
  • He thought that's probably what happened to the accordion-man.†   (source)
  • "If he ain't too attached to the accordion, I might buy it.†   (source)
  • "The barber says there's a drummer with an accordion staying in the hotel," Lippy said.†   (source)
  • But when I found out the accordion-man was gone, I kind of lost it!†   (source)
  • We could make some fine music back at the wagon if we had an accordion to play.†   (source)
  • I never talked to the accordion-man myself.†   (source)
  • I reached into my pocket, pulled out a dollar bill, and dropped it into his accordion case.†   (source)
  • What in the world happened to the blind old man who played the accordion on Main Street?†   (source)
  • Every once in a while, one of the songs he used to play on his accordion would come back to me.†   (source)
  • Whenever you'd drop money into his accordion case, he'd say, 'God bless America."†   (source)
  • But the dry-cleaning lady said that she knew for a fact that the accordion-man wasn't homeless.†   (source)
  • I watched his fingers tapping the buttons on the accordion.†   (source)
  • "This guy who used to play the accordion on Main Street," f said Summer.†   (source)
  • When did he learn to play the accordion?†   (source)
  • Not finding out that Summer knew the accordion-man's name.†   (source)
  • I still thought about the accordion-man sometimes, though.†   (source)
  • Accordion, harmonica, wine, shout, dance, wail, roundabout, dash of pan, laughter.†   (source)
  • Its entire front had pleated itself together, like an accordion, and one hubcap was spinning noisily on the pavement of Lousy Lane, making blurry circles as if it were a giant coin somebody had dropped.†   (source)
  • Somewhere, an accordion playing.†   (source)
  • She interrupted her story and flung herself into the center of the salon where she began to dance gracefully to the polka "Jesusita in Chihuahua," which Juan was playing brilliantly on the norteno accordion.†   (source)
  • By that time his plans for the School of Telegraphy and Magnetism had failed, and the German dedicated his free time to the only thing he really enjoyed: going to the port to play the accordion and drink beer with the sailors, finishing the evening at the transient hotel.†   (source)
  • Behind that window, a bedroom and a closet with accordion doors where Hannah, on the night I kissed her, disappeared.†   (source)
  • Viktor was sitting in a booth in the corner—watching an old accordion player move from table to table—when the Count entered the café.†   (source)
  • Lotario Thugut was in the habit of going there after the last shift at the telegraph office, and dawn often found him drinking Jamaican punch and playing the accordion with the crews of madmen from the Antillean schooners.†   (source)
  • The shabby old rug in the family room, the patchwork quilt on the couch, the ordinary clutter of Tariq's life: his mother's bolts of fabric, her sewing needles embedded in spools, the old magazines, the accordion case in the corner waiting to be cracked open.†   (source)
  • When the meal was finished and some small gifts were given, a final toast was offered and the accordion man packed his case.†   (source)
  • He spoke to her of Paris, of love in Paris, of the lovers in Paris who kissed on the street, on the omnibus, on the flowering terraces of the cafes opened to the burning winds and languid accordions of summer, who made love standing up on the quays of the Seine without anyone disturbing them.†   (source)
  • Then they returned to their conversation, which had grown so intimate, it could no longer be heard over the sound of the accordion.†   (source)
  • And, just five days in, Laila had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which Tariq's father sometimes played old Pashto songs, time stretched and contracted depending on Tariq's absence or presence.†   (source)
  • "We had an accordion player," he said.†   (source)
  • Behind him came pilgrims from remote regions, musicians playing accordions, peddlers selling food and amulets; and for three days the ranch was overflowing with the crippled and the hopeless, who in reality did not come for the learned sermons and the plenary indulgences but for the favors of the mule who, it was said, performed miracles behind his master's back.†   (source)
  • But just as the young lady was inviting him to share his thoughts on the matter, the accordion player began a little number with a Spanish flair.†   (source)
  • In Paris, strolling arm in arm with a casual sweetheart through a late autumn, it seemed impossible to imagine a purer happiness than those golden afternoons, with the woody odor of chestnuts on the braziers, the languid accordions, the insatiable lovers kissing on the open terraces, and still he had told himself with his hand on his heart that he was not prepared to exchange all that for a single instant of his Caribbean in April.†   (source)
  • Eddie took what cash he had left from the army and spent it on the reception-roast chicken and Chinese vegetables and port wine and a man with an accordion.†   (source)
  • Then all of a sudden, the old accordion player—who had stopped performing during the scuffle—struck up a friendly tune, presumably in the hopes of restoring some sense of goodwill.†   (source)
  • She heard the accordions in her detours around disenchantment, she heard the shouts from the cockfighting pits, the bursts of gunfire that could just as well signal war as revelry, and when she had no other recourse and had to pass through a village, she covered her face with her mantilla so that she could remember it as it once had been.†   (source)
  • By some extraordinary conspiracy of fate, at the very instant Nina made this pronouncement, the accordion player concluded an old favorite and the sparsely populated room broke into applause.†   (source)
  • As such, it was with a touch of disappointment that the Count entered the Piazza on this winter solstice to find the room ungarlanded, the balustrades unstrung, an accordion player on the bandstand, and two-thirds of the tables empty.†   (source)
  • But as the accordion player launched into a second carol, the Count found himself turning his attention to the neighboring table, where a young man seemed to be in the earliest stages of romantic discovery.†   (source)
  • When my mom comes home we petition her for a Formaggio Friday—we used to go to the same Italian restaurant every Friday night and that's what we called it, because the restaurant (which had checked red-and-white plastic tablecloths and an accordion player and fake plastic roses on the tables) was so cheesy—and she says she'll think about it, which means we're going.†   (source)
  • 'Yeah, she was,' Brett said. lf they'd been an accordion, she would have been playing "Lady of Spain.†   (source)
  • The accordion-man?†   (source)
  • A young woman who was selling numbers for the raffle of an accordion greeted him with a great deal of familiarity.†   (source)
  • They both peered through the accordion window, Lindsey leaning over Colin to catch a glimpse of Hassan and Katrina eating.†   (source)
  • Visitors from many countries or from just down the road, some in leather biker gear, start arriving early for Bloody Marys while the four-piece band of drums, guitar, fiddle, and accordion warms up.†   (source)
  • The children greeted Aureliano Segundo with excitement because he was playing the asthmatic accordion for them again.†   (source)
  • For most of my life, I'd never thought of him in those terms, but nowadays, when I heard his breath, it reminded me of air moving through an old accordion.†   (source)
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