1 His wife died of the disclosure, and Mattie, at twenty, was left alone to make her way on the fifty dollars obtained from the sale of her piano.
2 Always fiddling with the piano or sticking their heads in a book.
3 Every girl with any pretense to accomplishments had sung or played the piano, and the tableaux vivants had been greeted with flattering applause.
4 Aunt Pittypat rose hastily and asked Scarlett to favor them with a piano selection and a song.
5 The piano was suddenly silent as Scarlett was overtaken with surprise and embarrassment.
6 The piano was silent again for she was utterly at a loss.
7 The piano was one thing the Yankees couldn't carry away.
8 God intended him to sit in a great house, talking with pleasant people, playing the piano and writing things which sounded beautiful and made no sense whatsoever.
9 She could not account for her elevation to this position except by the fact that she could accompany anyone on the piano, even the Misses McLure who were tone deaf but who would sing duets.
10 By turns she hoped to discover that she had an unusual voice, a talent for the piano, the ability to act, to write, to manage organizations.
11 Inside, it was as shiny, as hard, and as cheerful as a new oak upright piano.
12 Her dejection was relieved by speculation as to what the men were discussing, in the corner between the piano and the phonograph.
13 Doors no longer moved; curtains were not creeping shadows but lovely dark masses in the dusk; and when Bea came home Carol was singing at the piano which she had not touched for many days.
14 When Carol sat at the piano again she did not think of her husband but of the book-drugged hermit, Guy Pollock.
15 Either you want to dance, or you bang the piano, or else you get moody as the devil and don't want to talk or anything else.