Sample Sentences forCalliope (auto-selected)
Calliope from Greek mythology
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I had seen the men in their kayaks during the offloading of the Calliope and I was not so convinced.† (source)
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Calliope is quite touchy when novelists forget to thank her.† (source)
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A calliope began to play oh so softly, grieving to itself, a million miles away.† (source)
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On her end, I could hear cartoons playing—rubbery voices and calliope music—then suddenly not.† (source)
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It was huffing and rattling and hissing off plumes of steam in a hundred directions, like a monster calliope.† (source)
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Just for him the ponderous elephants, the plumes, the spangles, the acrobats, the clowns, the caged lion, the band playing, the steam calliope, the whole thing!† (source)
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The sound of the calliope coming through the window kept her awake and she remembered that she hadn't said her prayers and got up and knelt down and began them.† (source)
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Not a merry-goround that travels fast, and with a calliope for music, and the children ride on cows with gilded horns, and there are rings to catch with sticks, and there is the blue, gas-flare-lit early dark of the Avenue du Maine, with fried fish sold from the next stall, and a wheel of fortune turning with the leather flaps slapping against the posts of the numbered compartments, and the packages of lump sugar piled in pyramids for prizes.† (source)
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Not long after, someone starts up the calliope and the parade begins.† (source)
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Ann, Felicity, and LeFarge are distracted by the sight of a Mr. Pinkney—the Human Calliope—as he mimics the sound of the instrument with his mouth while also banging a drum.† (source)
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But there wasn't any big side-wheeler there now, white as a wedding cake, cranky and improbable, with red and gilt decorations, and no calliope was playing "Dixie" and no whistles blowing.† (source)
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When the kid found out we were going to leave him at home he started up a howl like a calliope and fastened himself as tight as a leech to Bill's leg.† (source)
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The carnival once each summer; the oop-oop of the calliope and the smell of buttered popcorn.† (source)
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A calliope.† (source)
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To Delilah that house they were carrying the torches to was like one just now coming into being-like the showboat that slowly came through the trees just once in her time, at the peak of high water-bursting with the unknown, sparking in ruddy light, with a minute to go before that ear-aching cry of the calliope.† (source)
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'Well,' said Will, 'last night, did you hear that calliope —' 'Calliope?† (source)
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