Polka-band staple

Usage examples of concertina.

The little barkeeper paid no attention to their demands until he had satisfied the thirst of the old concertina player who, presently, could be seen drawing aside the bear-pelt curtain and passing through the small, square opening of the partition which separated the Polka Saloon from its dance-hall.

I peer at these people as they scurry in a landscape which seems concertinaed by giant hands, the women cowled in grubby shawls, the men clouded with beerhouse reek, the children quick and pale and subtly dangerous, wondering if this is when the change into true poverty begins.

There were too many with too much persistence to stop completely, and here and there the new sappers shoved their long pipelike Bangalore torpedoes along the ground under the concertina wire and pulled the fuse handles.

The trains would fold into each other, would concertina, would heap into killing chaos.

Then if you had to walk around the base with all this internal concertina, with all these unexploded pieces of ordnance, trucks, jeeps, and wrecks of airplanes, walls of sandbags and old tent pegs that were still poking out, you were obviously going to trip somewhere.

Glancing at the dirt path, Ryan saw blue shirts walking the wooden tripods across the road, trailing glittering coils of the concertina wire to seal off the exit.

Jim was the champion concertina player and bullock driver in the district.

The West Indian, who had swiftly hidden the concertina behind his back when the police appeared, said he was going home and they exchanged genial good-nights.

A blue Nissan was a complete concertina, and something dead and bloody was hanging through the popped-out windshield.

If you are good at playing the concertina you could probably go into the nearest public bar and get yourself an appreciative audience within five minutes.

Esmeralda slammed the concertina gates of the elevator and glared at Thurston through the bars.

Pressing the guinea-pig between her hands, as it might be a concertina, little Ann jigged it gently above the pointers, who, wrinkling horribly their long noses, gazed upwards, fascinated.

The music of a concertina rose and fell, like the sighing of some disillusioned spirit.

The docks were comparatively animated, with the passage of drays, the shouting and cursing of porters, the gay music of concertinas from aboard the barge.

A two-metre-diameter airlock tube had concertinaed out from the bay wall, just below the control centre, giving the maintenance team access to the life-support capsules buried at the core of the ship.