How To Use Calliope In A Sentence
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On the top of the mountain sat Apollo with Calliope at his feet, and on either side the remaining Muses, holding lutes or harps, and singing each of them some "posy" or epigram in praise of the queen, which was presented, after it had been sung, written in letters of gold.
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)
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These machines -- calliopes, nickelodeons, and German jahrmarkt organs -- were visually juxtaposed in fast crosscuts, their sounds mixed with those of the more conventional violin, piano, accordion and banjo, all of them deconstructed via musical sampler that detuned, altered, and arranged the rhythmic whimsy into an "imaginary orchestra" soundtrack.
Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde
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Its coals fade to black shortly after it starts, but then a scratchy calliope whirs to life, taking it out on a wistful, black and white note.
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The track opens with a series of agitated sci-fi effects, homely robot tones that later segue into what sounds like the malfunctioning calliope of a downtrodden circus.
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When the calliope starts playing 'Mack the Knife,' it's time to call the kids inside.
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It serenely drifts through the subdued moments accompanied by yet another diverting calliope!
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Others say she was an Ithacan woman sold as a slave by the Phoenicians; other, Calliope the Muse; others again Polycasta, the daughter of Nestor.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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Along the Pacific Coast, the large Anna's hummingbird may be found, as well as Allen's, black-chinned, broad-tailed, calliope, Costa's, and rufous hummingbirds.
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Some years ago she encountered an out-of-tune calliope on a riverboat in New Orleans and, as she describes, became fascinated with old mechanical instruments, and the odd, detuned sounds that they produce as they deteriorate.
Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde
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Ghosts of the past and goblins of the future danced to the tune of a calliope.
Merry-Go-Round
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The first bird that I saw banded was a calliope hummingbird.
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Calliope wrinkled her pert little nose and fished in her backpack for concealer and foundation.
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Polyhymnia and Urania and Calliope 70, who is the chiefest of them all, for she attends on worshipful princes: whomsoever of heaven-nourished princes the daughters of great Zeus honour, and behold him at his birth, they pour sweet dew upon his tongue, and from his lips flow gracious words.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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She may pick a topic like steamboat bells and whistles, or wax romantic about the calliope.
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The calliope hummingbird weighs only as much as two paper clips, yet it migrates annually between Canada and Mexico.
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The suite included two couples in Calliope House, the dance called the Reel of Four and considered the oldest Scottish dance formation.
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Marimba, clarinet and calliope all figure heavily.
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Today, he plays ‘Waltz of War, ‘which he recorded using calliope and accordion sounds on the synthesizer.
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Poor, dear Calliope managed to snag one tread and for the past few months had gone in circles crying for help.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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Take a gentleman's advice and apply the soft pedal to your wheezy calliope -- get off the political stage in time to avoid the coming cataclysm of sphacelated cabbage and has-been cats.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
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The Greek Nine are: Clio, muse of history; Thalia, muse of comedy and bucolic poetry; Terpsichore, muse of dance; Euterpe, muse of lyric song; Polyhymnia, muse of sacred song; Calliope, muse of epic song; Erato, muse of erotic poetry; Urania, muse of astronomy; Melpomene, muse of tragedy.
Muses Through the Years
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Calliope "Calli" Reaper-Jones has had a Forgotten Charm put on herself so she can lead a normal mortal's life in New York City, trying to break into the world of fashion.
Review: Death’s Daughter by Amber Benson
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Now, at 8: 00 a.m., the calliope hauled out of the local museum each year awakens the open-windowed slothful for blocks around.
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The "Southern Republic," from her immense size and unusually handsome equipment, was a novelty even to the river people; and each afternoon of her starting, crowds came aboard to bid farewell to friends and roam over the vessel, or collected on the bluffs above to see her swing out to the shrill notes of her "calliope," the best and least discordant on the river.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
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Wealthy in the learned misery of my cimmerian temperment, one imploringly seeks forbearance, from those who have made apocryphal thrones before those Muses; Calliope, Clio and Erato - disremember not that all things circumduct the calamity of Melpomeme and droll Thalia.
ShoutWire.com
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Our steam calliope was traded to Cleveland for a second baseman.
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They say appreciation of this instrument is an acquired taste, but I can feel it and I know it is the same feeling that calliopes evoked in me long before I had even heard of uillean pipes.
OpEdNews - Diary: Something in a Name
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However, she was not aware, until Davis settled in, that his nights were a continual calliope of snorts, wheezes, gasps, grunts and whistles — in several different keys, no less.
The Love Tap
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Calliope music played: a Strauss waltz, stirring and occasionally discordant.
AMERICAN GODS
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She heard merry-go-round calliopes and Silent Night.
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The Astrodome was about right for Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King - in the distance, a calliope seemed to be playing.
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The mourning mother recirculates the lament of the earlier lines as Orpheus and Calliope are themselves ‘fall'n on evil days.’
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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.
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On the Mississippi Queen, old-time banjos and a calliope belt out favorites from long ago as passengers explore six decks worth of elegance.
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The mechanical calliope is louder now, adding to the urgency in my voice.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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Castaliusque mihi noua pocula fontis alumnus5 ingerit et late campos metatus apertos imponitque iugum uati retinetque corymbis implicitum ducitque per auia, qua sola numquam trita rotis. iuuat aurato procedere curru et parere deo: uiridis en ire per herbas10 imperat: intacto premimus uestigia musco; et, quamuis cursus ostendat tramite noto obuia Calliope facilis, insistere prato complacitum, rudibus qua luceat orbita sulcis. nam quis non Nioben numeroso funere maestam15 iam cecinit? quis non Semelen ignemque iugalem letalemque simul nouit de paelicis astu? quis magno recreata tacet cunabula Baccho, ut pater omnipotens maternos reddere mensis dignatus iusti complerit tempora partus?
Exordium to a Poem on Hunting
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We didn't even get as far as the authentic Chinese funfair, with the authentic Chinese waltzers and calliope.
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Incidentally, you'll be pegged as a first-of-May if you don't call the calliope a cally-ope.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3
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I think that Calliope has lived in Friendship since the beginning, when she and Liddy Ember were partners in their little "modiste" shop.
Friendship Village
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There were bands on horses and bands on chariots, and at the tail of the procession a fearful and wonderful instrument bearing the euphonious and classic name of the "calliope," whose chief function seemed to be that of terrifying the farmers 'horses into frantic and determined attempts to escape from these horrid alarms of the city to the peaceful haunts of their rural solitudes.
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail
