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Updated: June 23, 2025
She pulled the bit of india-rubber from her finger; she dragged off the engagement-ring and dashed it on the floor in front of his feet while her eyes sparkled with rage, and the cherry-paste hardly concealed the whiteness of her lips. "Take it and give it to the organ-grinder!" she called, in the madness of her rage. He did not even look whither the ring had rolled.
Here, where such gory things were done, if one of us saw an organ-grinder threatening a monkey with a knife we should leap to save the monkey and ourselves.
And Wooden-leg Larsen, who in winter is quite the well-to-do pensioner, in blue pilot-coat and fur cap, leaves his pretty, solidly-built cottage when the Spring comes, and sallies forth into the world as a poor organ-grinder he tells them of the Zoological Gardens on the hill, and the adventurous Holm-Street, and of extraordinary beings who live upon the dustbins in the back-yards of the capital.
An' what is the noise I hear save one them wore-out hurdy-gurdies, that do be roamin' the country over, soon's ever the town gets too hot to hold 'em? Wouldn't 'pear that a nice spoken little girl as yon would be takin' up with no Eyetalian organ-grinder," grumbled Timothy, a trifle jealously.
He isn't really a donkey-man, nor a Magyar, nor an orphan, nor an organ-grinder, nor any of the things he has said he was. He is just a plain American man and an awful liar! The young man held out his hand and Mr. Wilder shook it. 'Jerry, he said, 'I don't need to tell you how pleased "Jerry!" echoed Constance. 'Father, you knew?
This is no evil to Boat Jim, who, sprawled upon the deck, snores away the hours, regardless of the blistering sun beating down upon his uncovered head, and all unconscious of the departure of his chance passenger, an itinerant organ-grinder.
Lastly, the romantic organ-grinder declaimed in the office some poetry that only got as far as the words, `O vivid, inviolate head, Ringed
The organ-grinder got awfully angry and said that he wanted to keep the monkey. But the Doctor told him that if he didn't go away he would punch him on the nose. John Dolittle was a strong man, though he wasn't very tall. So the Italian went away saying rude things and the monkey stayed with Doctor Dolittle and had a good home.
That is the way one corresponds with an organ-grinder." Ford sprang to his feet. "And meanwhile," he exclaimed angrily, "the man will get away." Without seeking permission, he ran past James, and through the empty outer offices. In two minutes he returned, herding before him an individual, seedy and soiled. In appearance the man suggested that in life his place was to support a sandwich-board.
If they call me a loose woman, and if I'm not, why, you see: a floral wreath. And if I am, it's all the same in the end." Senor Ignacio, offended, shifted the conversation to the crime on Panuelas Street; a jealous organ-grinder had slain his sweetheart for a harsh word and the hearers were excited over the case, each offering his opinion.
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