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accordion
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Augie & Me: Three Wonder Stories
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- There was a blind old man who played the accordion on Main Street, who I used to see every day on my way to school.†
p. 181.1accordion = characterized by narrower parallel folds when closed and wider when open
- I never talked to the accordion-man myself.†
p. 181.6
- But—and here's a big but—even though I was afraid of both of them, the accordion-man and his dog, I always dropped a dollar bill into the open accordion case in front of them.†
p. 181.9
- But—and here's a big but—even though I was afraid of both of them, the accordion-man and his dog, I always dropped a dollar bill into the open accordion case in front of them.†
p. 182.1
- And somehow, even though he was playing the accordion, and no matter how quietly I crept over, the accordion-man would always hear the swoosh of the dollar bill as it fell into the accordion case.†
p. 182.1
- And somehow, even though he was playing the accordion, and no matter how quietly I crept over, the accordion-man would always hear the swoosh of the dollar bill as it fell into the accordion case.†
p. 182.1
- And somehow, even though he was playing the accordion, and no matter how quietly I crept over, the accordion-man would always hear the swoosh of the dollar bill as it fell into the accordion case.†
p. 182.1
- On those really frigid days when my teeth would start to chatter after walking just a few blocks against the icy wind, how did he stay warm enough to play his accordion?†
p. 182.5
- In the wintertime, I always asked my mom for two dollars to drop into his accordion case instead of just one.†
p. 182.7 *
- When did he learn to play the accordion?†
p. 183.2
- I saw him and his dog walking together sometimes, his right hand holding the dog's harness and his left hand holding the accordion case.†
p. 183.4
- Once in a while, at the beginning of the school year, we would go get snacks at the A&P after school before heading home, and I'd see the accordion-man and give him a dollar and hear him bless America.†
p. 184.4
- Which is why it wasn't until a few days into winter break, when I went to the A&P with my mom one afternoon, that I realized that the blind old man who played the accordion on Main Street wasn't there anymore.†
p. 184.9
- But when I found out the accordion-man was gone, I kind of lost it!†
p. 185.1
- What in the world happened to the blind old man who played the accordion on Main Street?†
p. 185.3
- He thought that's probably what happened to the accordion-man.†
p. 185.6
- But the dry-cleaning lady said that she knew for a fact that the accordion-man wasn't homeless.†
p. 185.7
- And the eye-shop man said that he was certain that the accordion-man had been a famous jazz musician once and was actually loaded, so I shouldn't worry about him.†
p. 185.8
- I looked around when I was inside the mission with my parents to see if maybe the accordion-man was there, but he wasn't.†
p. 186.6
- , I didn't really get a chance to solve the mystery of what happened to the blind old man who played the accordion on Main Street.†
p. 187.6
- I still thought about the accordion-man sometimes, though.†
p. 187.9
- Every once in a while, one of the songs he used to play on his accordion would come back to me.†
p. 187.9
- The accordion-man?†
p. 224.8
- The accordion-man!†
p. 224.9
- 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.†
p. 225.9
- 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."†
p. 226.1
- "This guy who used to play the accordion on Main Street," said Summer.†
p. 226.9
- Whenever you'd drop money into his accordion case, he'd say, 'God bless America.†
p. 227.1
- Not finding out that Summer knew the accordion-man's name.†
p. 229.9
- 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.†
p. 301.4
- I watched his fingers tapping the buttons on the accordion.†
p. 301.6
- I reached into my pocket, pulled out a dollar bill, and dropped it into his accordion case.†
p. 303.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(accordion as in: an accordion door) characterized by narrower parallel folds when closed and wider when open -- such as a door or musical instrument with that characteristicWhen unqualified, accordion generally refers to a musical instrument.
See the related Google Images to see pictures of the musical instrument, doors, folds, and pleats that have accordion characteristics. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)