"Calliope" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... little girl set up a yell that, as Burd declared, could have scarcely been equaled by a steam calliope. ...
— The Campfire Girls of Roselawn - A Strange Message from the Air • Margaret Penrose
... it must be the new captain appointed to the Calliope. I read his name in the papers,—the ...
— Percival Keene • Frederick Marryat
... hundred and break the bank at Monte Carlo three times a week," said Mallory, shaking his head reminiscently, "I could not know a tenth part of the frantic excitement of that race or of the mad triumph when our horse won. Gran'ther cast his hat upon the ground, screaming like a steam-calliope with exultation as the sorrel swept past the judges' stand ahead of all the others, and I jumped up and down in an agony of delight which was almost more than my little body ...
— Hillsboro People • Dorothy Canfield
... I see Calliope speede her to the place, Where my Goddesse shines; And after her the other Muses trace With their Violines. Bene they not Bay braunches which they do beare, All for Elisa in her hand to weare? So sweetely they play, And sing all the way, That it ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy
... the seas, driven on by the terrible gadfly, while I charmed in vain the hearts of men, and the savage forest beasts, and the trees, and the lifeless stones, with my magic harp and song, giving rest, but finding none. But at last Calliope my mother delivered me, and brought me home in peace; and I dwell here in the cave alone, among the savage Cicon tribes, softening their wild hearts with music and the gentle laws of Zeus. And now I must go out again, to the ends of all the ...
— The Heroes • Charles Kingsley
... for that parody on a popcorn wagon?" snorts Chet. "Why, man, the poor old thing has to go into low to pull its shadow! You're delirious, Pelty. I'll tell you what I'll do. You give me a thousand dollars for my car, and I'll agree to haul that old calliope up to my barn, out of your way, and make a hen roost out of it. Come on now. ...
— Homeburg Memories • George Helgesen Fitch |
