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  • Russia collapses like an accordion.†   (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)
  • He also played the bass fiddle, the accordion and the piano.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Atop it was a camera, a great boxy thing with an accordionlike lens.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • His face puffs up like an accordion.†   (source)
  • Juan impressed all the guests with the wonderful way he played the guitar, the harmonica, and the 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)
  • In that tiny burst of light, I saw a closet—its accordion doors halfway open.†   (source)
  • Hannah saw that there were three musicians in all: the clarinet, the violin, and an accordion.†   (source)
  • The rattle of the gate accordioning back, the bump of the doors opening and closing.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The Deliverator winces, imagining the garlicky topping accordioning into the back wall of the box.†   (source)
  • When the first Humvee slowed down at the intersection, each vehicle behind was forced to slow down, creating an accordion effect.†   (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)
  • A young woman who was selling numbers for the raffle of an accordion greeted him with a great deal of familiarity.†   (source)
  • The doors folded shut like a noiseless accordion.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • There was one on an accordion, another on a fiddle, and a third was miscellaneous on maracas and triangle and drums when needed.†   (source)
  • A black man in a checkered shirt and purple pants playing La Rose de la France on his accordion.†   (source)
  • I play the accordion.†   (source)
  • So much salt had dried into my cotton shirt that it was creased into rigid accordion wrinkles.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "I just bought this accordion," Lippy said.†   (source)
  • The next song starts up from the speaker, loud and clangy and a lot of accordion.†   (source)
  • I'm bending a blade of grass into an accordion of squares.†   (source)
  • When he exhaled, Paul could hear a slight wheeze, like air escaping from an old accordion.†   (source)
  • His hand was prying between the accordion pleats of the door as he ran alongside the bus.†   (source)
  • The room opened and shut like an accordion before her fevered vision; the floor heaved and trembled under her stumbling feet.†   (source)
  • But that girl that wants to play the accordion for you today is old enough to be a mother.†   (source)
  • Jankowski—you completed a performance degree on the accordion?†   (source)
  • His wife played the accordion when it came time to sing hymns.†   (source)
  • An accordion player moved through the crowd, muted strains of Bavarian music coming from his instrument.†   (source)
  • I was pounded between crushing electrical pressures; pumped between live electrodes like an accordion between a player's hands.†   (source)
  • Moon Orchid left fans unfolded and dragons with accordion bodies dangling from doorknobs.†   (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)
  • She sees his teeth and his eyes, his cheeks and his jet-black hair swelling and shrinking like an accordion.†   (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)
  • Water piped out from the accordion folds.†   (source)
  • Junior's true name was Jurvis Roy, shortened at some point to J. R. and then re-expanded, accordion-like, to Junior.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • But at dawn (the sleepiest time
    When one could sleep forever)
    The accordion struck up,
    Once again, at leaving.†   (source)
  • Holding his rows of little black-rimmed fingers together like a modest accordion, he said, "Two ladies going to Cork."†   (source)
  • "Please," she said, "my papa's accordion."   (source)
  • I thought of the singer Ahmad Zahir, who had played the accordion at my thirteenth birthday.   (source)
  • One afternoon, she lifted the accordion from its case and polished it with a rag.   (source)
  • ...and spotted an American flag sticker on the accordion case at her feet.   (source)
  • The girl let her hold her hand on top of the accordion case, which sat between them.   (source)
  • Rosa was sitting with the accordion, praying.   (source)
  • Again, Himmel Street was a trail of people, and again, Papa left his accordion.   (source)
  • Did you know I saw you with Papa's accordion?   (source)
  • "Book, sandpaper, pencil," he ordered her, "and accordion!" once she was already gone.   (source)
  • The sound of the accordion was, in fact, also the announcement of safety.   (source)
  • "You know my accordion?" he said, and there the story began.   (source)
  • A man walked past with a broken accordion case and Liesel could see the instrument inside.   (source)
  • Thankfully, it turned up, buried behind the accordion in the cupboard.   (source)
  • We're going to the Amper—upstream, where I used to practice the accordion.   (source)
  • Could you look after my accordion, Liesel?   (source)
  • Just that pathetic accordion in those dirt holes every night.   (source)
  • Papa sits with the accordion at his feet.   (source)
  • The face was there again—his accordion face.   (source)
  • That night was also the first time Papa played his accordion at home for months.   (source)
  • He dropped the accordion and his silver eyes continued to rust.   (source)
  • Apparently, while he was still sober, Hans was invited to the stage to play the accordion.   (source)
  • On his third night at home, he played the accordion in the kitchen.   (source)
  • He carried the accordion with him during the entirety of the war.   (source)
  • Do you play the accordion, by any chance?   (source)
  • The accordion must have ached her, but she remained.   (source)
  • Later, they remembered the accordion but no one noticed the book.   (source)
  • Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion.   (source)
  • An unhappy-looking accordion, peering through its eaten case.   (source)
  • Looking across, Hans Hubermann was packing the accordion away.   (source)
  • Luckily, he would soon be leaving for the Knoller with his accordion.   (source)
  • QUESTION TWO "Do you still play the accordion?"   (source)
  • He still plays that accordion your mother told you about—your father's.   (source)
  • She looked to where the man was taking the accordion and followed him.   (source)
  • When you wake up, I'll play accordion for you.   (source)
  • His legs gave way and his head hit the accordion case.   (source)
  • It was the accordion that most likely spared him from total ostracism.   (source)
  • He sat up and told her about the accordion of the previous night, and Frau Holtzapfel.   (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)
  • He brought the accordion down and sat close to where Max used to sit.   (source)
  • Papa's fingers desecrated the accordion, murdering song after song, no matter how hard he tried.   (source)
  • The accordion remained strapped to her chest.   (source)
  • The accordion looked at her through the hole in the case.   (source)
  • In the kitchen on those mornings, Papa made the accordion live.   (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
  • She didn't see him watching as he played, having no idea that Hans Hubermann's accordion was a story.   (source)
  • All that was really left of Erik Vandenburg was a few personal items and the fingerprinted accordion.   (source)
  • Papa, who'd forgotten everything—even his accordion—rushed back to her and rescued the suitcase from her grip.   (source)
  • A PAINTED IMAGE Rosa with Accordion.   (source)
  • Or at least, words and a man who taught him the accordion … "First things first," Hans Hubermann said that night.   (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)
  • It took approximately three-quarters of an hour to explain two wars, an accordion, a Jewish fist fighter, and a basement.   (source)
  • Eventually, when Liesel returned to bed, the image of Rosa Hubermann and the accordion would not leave her.   (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)
  • Whenever they had a break, to eat or drink, he would play the accordion, and it was this that Liesel remembered best.   (source)
  • She knew that for the next few days, Mama would be walking around with the imprint of an accordion on her body.   (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)
  • It was a man a year older than himself—a German Jew named Erik Vandenburg—who taught him to play the accordion.   (source)
  • 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)
  • For nearly an hour, she remained, spread out under the kitchen table, till Papa came home and played the accordion.   (source)
  • The accordion case fell from her grip.   (source)
  • On many nights, she'd watched Rosa sit with the accordion and pray with her chin on top of the bellows.   (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)
  • 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)
  • There was an accordion in their ears, a snowman in their eyes, and for Liesel, there was the thought of Max's last words before she left him by the fire.   (source)
  • They would eat together, sitting on their cans of paint, and with the last mouthfuls still in the chewing stages, Papa would be wiping his fingers, unbuckling the accordion case.   (source)
  • The accordion's scratched yet shiny black exterior came back and forth as his arms squeezed the dusty bellows, making it suck in the air and throw it back out.   (source)
  • She was the girl they referred to as "the one with the accordion," and she was taken to the police, who were in the throes of deciding what to do with her.   (source)
  • Every once in a while, one of the songs he used to play on his accordion would come back to me.†   (source)
    accordion = characterized by narrower parallel folds when closed and wider when open
  • I watched his fingers tapping the buttons on the accordion.†   (source)
  • Not finding out that Summer knew the accordion-man's name.†   (source)
  • "This guy who used to play the accordion on Main Street," said Summer.†   (source)
  • Whenever you'd drop money into his accordion case, he'd say, 'God bless America.†   (source)
  • I reached into my pocket, pulled out a dollar bill, and dropped it into his accordion case.†   (source)
  • Or, like we had stumbled onto a tiny door in the back of a wardrobe and an accordion-playing faun had welcomed us to Narnia.†   (source)
  • Suddenly he was there again, sitting in front of the A611" supermarket awning, playing the same songs on his accordion that he had always played, his black Labrador lying down in front of him.†   (source)
  • Before Summer and I could say anything else on the subject of the accordion-man, Mrs. Atanabi brushed her hands together and said it was time to "get to work."†   (source)
  • The accordion-man!†   (source)
  • She manipulated the image so it squeezed in and out like an accordion.†   (source)
  • On the TV screen a pair of accordion players are dueling, but Gianna has turned off the sound.†   (source)
  • lf they'd been an accordion, she would have been playing "Lady of Spain.†   (source)
  • The accordion player now began to play a jaunty little melody reminiscent of an English carol.†   (source)
  • I hopped in backward, and the ropes creaked like the devil's own accordion.†   (source)
  • "It doesn't sound much like an accordion to me," said Flora.†   (source)
  • And his mother's cooking and his father's carpentry, him playing the 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)
  • What in the world happened to the blind old man who played the accordion on Main Street?†   (source)
  • I never talked to the accordion-man myself.†   (source)
  • But when I found out the accordion-man was gone, I kind of lost it!†   (source)
  • But the dry-cleaning lady said that she knew for a fact that the accordion-man wasn't homeless.†   (source)
  • I still thought about the accordion-man sometimes, though.†   (source)
  • He thought that's probably what happened to the accordion-man.†   (source)
  • When did he learn to play the accordion?†   (source)
  • Cordelia in an iron lung, then, being breathed, as an accordion is played.†   (source)
  • He paused, and I could hear him wheezing, the sound like air through an old accordion.†   (source)
  • We could make some fine music back at the wagon if we had an accordion to play.†   (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)
  • "The barber says there's a drummer with an accordion staying in the hotel," Lippy said.†   (source)
  • If he ain't too attached to the accordion, I might buy it.†   (source)
  • Accordion, harmonica, wine, shout, dance, wail, roundabout, dash of pan, laughter.†   (source)
  • Somewhere, an accordion playing.†   (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)
  • The accordion-man?†   (source)
  • Behind that window, a bedroom and a closet with accordion doors where Hannah, on the night I kissed her, disappeared.†   (source)
  • Or there would be a crash on the Triborough Bridge, their Checker crushed into a bleeding yellow accordion.†   (source)
  • She liked him so much from that first meeting that she fixed things so that he would win the accordion in the raffle.†   (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)
  • The first one was a drawing of a accordion and told about a band named "H. E. Callowski and the Wonderful Warblers of Warsaw," who were the "Masters of the Polka."†   (source)
  • Then the man of the house played the accordion, fireworks were set off, and drums celebrated the event throughout the town.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Then they returned to their conversation, which had grown so intimate, it could no longer be heard over the sound of the accordion.†   (source)
  • A group made up of an accordion and drums played the songs of Francisco the Man, who had not been seen in Macondo for several years.†   (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)
  • "We had an accordion player," he said.†   (source)
  • The children greeted Aureliano Segundo with excitement because he was playing the asthmatic accordion for them again.†   (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)
  • Nevertheless, Aureliano Segundo became a virtuoso on the accordion and he still was after he had married and had children and was one of the most respected men in Macondo.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • They spent the greater part of the day closeted in the bedroom in hermetic conferences and at dusk they asked for an escort and some accordion players and took over Catarino's store.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • A short time later Fernanda heard the fireworks of the debauch and the unmistakable accordion of Aureliano Segundo from the direction of Petra Cotes's place.†   (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)
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