Meantime the other man had got a concertina from the shelf, and was playing with all his might to drown the sound of the explosion.
The handsome yellow man took theconcertina which seemed so discordant, and the touch of his dainty fingers transformed it to harmony.
Several are fantastically dressed and equipped with every available instrument-- violin, drum, concertina and accordion.
While I write I hear the cheerful strains of a concertina which he is playing.
He sings so well, and plays the concertina a little, and teaches in the Sunday-school, and speaks really quite excellently at temperance meetings.
He had not quite the air of a butler but neither could she imagine him playing a concertina or haranguing a temperance meeting and he acquitted himself quite creditably.
The clerk raised a shoulder and put the concertina on an upper shelf.
Once, even, the dentist had taken a concertina from the lot kept by the music store.
The day she moved from Zerkow's old house, she came suddenly upon the dentist's concertina under a heap of old clothes in the closet.
One Wednesday afternoon in the second week in March McTeague came over to call on Trina, bringing his concertina with him, as was his custom nowadays.
Throughout that little suite could be heard but two sounds, the lugubrious strains of the concertina and the noise of stifled weeping.
On the top shelf McTeague kept his concertina and a bag of bird seed for the canary.
The clerk had told him the concertina had been sold on Polk Street to the second-hand store there.
But theconcertina still continued to wail and lament.
After a while he had taken down his concertinaand played upon it the six very mournful airs that he knew.
The concertina would bring quite a sum, and the bird cage is as good as new.
McTeague kept his concertina and his canary, even going so far as to put them both away in the bedroom, attaching to them tags on which he had scrawled in immense round letters, "Not for Sale.
His musical talent was discovered when some one received a concertina from England.
In no way abashed, he remained where he was, only ceasing to play for a moment to tell me that the concertina was too small--a toy, in fact.
Eventually he was given the concertina as a present and went off delighted--doing no more work that day.
He was sitting on the bed, with his legs crossed, and a new cheap concertina on his knee, and his eyes turned to the patch of ceiling as if it were a piece of music and he could read it.
The sick people were too sick, and the concertina seemed too much in sympathy with them, and the lost half-quid haunted us more than ever down there; so we started to climb out.
Going in next day I thought for a moment that I had dropped suddenly back into the past and into a bush dance, for there was a concertinagoing upstairs.
As Mrs. Bindle appeared at the kitchen door, the concertinaonce more began to speak.
At the conclusion of the verse the voice ceased; but the concertina wailed on.
And if you ask Hans Henrik, perhaps he'd bring his concertina with him, and you could have a dance in the barn.
He had brought his concertina over, and was playing love-songs.
Then there was more concertina playing, and another demand for a song.
He watched me frying my bacon and he said that the smell was grand; He watched me bucking the stove-wood, but he never lent me a hand, And he played on my concertina the airs of his native land.
So off I hiked to the shanty, and never a word I said, I floated in like a cyclone, I yanked him out of my bed, And I grabbed the concertina and smashed it over his head.
My little pet," he whispered hoarsely, and rushed away just as Mr Hurkle came up undulating, and looking more like a pulled out concertina than ever.
Bissonnette paused on an out-pull, and threw back his head with a soundless laugh, then played the concertina into contortions.
True, Bissonnette played the concertina with passing sweetness, and sang as little like a wicked smuggler as one might think.
He shut the concertina up, and asked the Jew how much he owed.
He was to follow as fast as the loaded porters could be made to travel, and with that concertina of his to spur them on there was little likelihood of losing touch.
We enraged him still further by laughing at him, and Fred got out his concertinathat for many days past had lain idle.
Fred played concertina nearly all night long, and when dawn came, though there were tracks of lions all about the camp we were only tired and sleepy.
For the last ten minutes he had kept a stub of pencil and a scrap of paper working, and now the strident tones of his too long neglected concertina stirred the heavy air and shocked the birds outside to silence.
Seeing his troubadour charm was broken, Fred snapped the catch on the concertinaand came too.
The concertina wailed into a sort of minor dirge and ceased.
So after a while he put his concertina into his pocket, cocked his derby hat on one side, gathered his little bandy legs under his person, and squatted there in silence, chewing the wet and bitter end of his extinct cigar.
Occasionally he played upon his concertina as he advanced; now and then he cut a pigeon wing.
Into one of these trails stepped Samuel Mink, burdened only with his concertina and a box of cigars.
Afterward he played on his concertina at my suggestion on the chance that the music might lure a cave-girl down the hill.
But usually he played on his concertinaduring his leisure moments which were plentiful.
I've got the goods'" "He played on his concertina .
Owing some hundreds, which by no possibility could he pay, he went into town and put them all onConcertina for the Saltown Borough Handicap.
Concertina was squeezed home by her neck--a terrible squeak!
At the same moment, a few prelusory notes of the concertina were heard without.
Khalîl, the musician, stood to lead the way, making his concertina speak occasionally as a protest against further waiting.
Knut and Otto crept off miserably into the garden, and that evening there was no dancing, and the Bear-mother's concertina was silent.
She leaned forward, jerked her head about, and tugged desperately at the concertina till both handles left it.
Somewhere in the darkness along the wharves a concertina was stumbling uncertainly through the latest success in rag-time melody.
So Bob got it and the concertinawas soon drowned out.
The concertina sobbed and shrieked out its notes, and drowned a murmur of voices on the outside.
She whispered those words to Lyster, whose hand was clasping hers, whose arm was about her waist, as they, drifted around the rather small circle, to a waltz played on a concertina and a banjo.
Once more the concertina spoke to us--but with a different, steadier and surer voice than before.
The concertina slackened its speed into a mere drawl and then changed into a terrible discord of squeaks and grunts.
Evidently he did, for the next moment the concertina broke out into a wild, Celtic dance tune.
Brother Orpheus took no end of pains in teaching me to play the concertina and, eager to learn, I soon became proficient.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "concertina" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
