The young man had a
concertina, and he played the tunes popular on the music-halls a dozen years before.
I thought of hobgoblins and banshees, and will-o'-the-wisps, and those wicked girls who sit up all night on rocks, and lure people into whirl- pools and things; and I wished I had been a better man, and knew more hymns; and in the middle of these reflections I heard the blessed strains of "He's got `em on," played, badly, on a concertina, and knew that we were saved.
I do not admire the tones of a concertina, as a rule; but, oh!
He was singing Figaro's famous song in the Barber of Seville, with that crisply fluent vocalisation which is never heard from any other than an Italian throat, accompanying himself on the
concertina, which he played with ecstatic throwings-up of his arms, and graceful twistings and turnings of his head, like a fat St.
Besides the two drunken men he had met on the steps, a group consisting of about five men and a girl with a
concertina had gone out at the same time.
'Why, you play--if you can--the
Concertina, you know,' replied Fledgeby, meditating very slowly.
Defense officials said at a news briefing that the total size of the US deployment of troops to the Southern border would reach 6,000 by March 1, with 140 miles of additional
Concertina wiring to be installed, The Hill reported.
The town's code prohibits the use of the wire, which is also known as
concertina wire, except in industrial parks and storage areas.
One of the irregularities on which the RAA invited the attention of the commission pertained to suspected collusion surrounding the estimation and measurement adopted by the engineer in relation to supplying, fixing and lying of
concertina wire over the 2206.66m perimeter wall.
The
concertina arrangement of pages gradually reveals cross-sections of pipes, drains, cables, sewers, archaeological relics, underground railways, limestone caves and rivers, and coal mines before reaching the earth's mantle and core.