musical box BrE
music box AmE

He took the musical box from her and set it down.

Perhaps one of the musical boxes might be a better choice.'

He also brought a small musical box along with him, which helped to ease suspicion and win friends (especially among children).

Musical boxes were originally designed to please both the eye and the ear.

However, this changes when Theresa tells her that a musical box may indeed be magic.

"Tilda, have you been tinkering about with the musical box?"

And who had set the musical box going?

However, his nurse arrives and throws the musical box at him, destroying them both.

They handled a line of cheap gramophones, and did a little with musical boxes.

Each episode begins with a shot of a musical box which rotates while playing a tune.

So she only laughed, like a musical box.

But as the recording industry in Camden took off, the manufacturing of musical boxes declined.

The Musical Box took a break in 2010.

From a musical box in the base issued a thin, clear parody of last night's music and the monkeys tapped their feet.

Up until this point, pipe organs were played by a large wooden cylinder, using a system akin to the modern musical box.

Its chiming mechanism is like that of a musical box and plays six distinct tunes.

Ghaled looked with amused interest at the musical box.

The new museum would be the first permanent home for the society's historical collection of several hundred musical boxes and various self-playing instruments.

Plastic fire engines, brightly coloured musical boxes, even books with sound effects still have their attractions.

He made musical boxes for a hobby.

Unlike the opera season, which has subscribers, the musical box office depends entirely on single-ticket sales.

The musical box somewhere on the table began playing a rather trivial, rather plaintive air that was strange to him.

Then the raps ceased, and over the healing silence the little jet of melody from the musical box played alone.

"How much the bird reminds me of the musical box that belonged to our blessed Empress," said an old knight.

She was in her dressing gown, brushing her hair, when she saw the musical box.

He could do more with a music box than any other three people.

And a music box that will play whatever you ask it to?

Why do you think there are music boxes in every room?

So this is the source of her music box story.

Each story is tied together through the use of the music box.

The table with the reading lamp and the music box was on the right.

Every time you play a music box it gives a fresh performance.

It was a tiny music box, the only thing he had taken from his sister's home after her death.

As she watched, he lifted the top of the music box.

I was going to ask you about this music box."

During the bridge, several music boxes are played at once.

He sat down in a corner, beside the playing music box.

Who needs all these music boxes, and what drives someone to buy them?

And she gave me the music box, the one 1 once stole from her, then later returned.

There was an old music box; you turned a key at the back and it played a song.

Now he also has a music box replica of the museum's new building.

It was far more shrill than that of the music box.

Of course, she had more pressing worries than a music box.

When I asked her what, she silently wound up the music box.

Certainly not the shining star of the song on the music box.

He made no attempt to switch off the music boxes.

But there was something in the room that intrigued him more than music boxes.

Once it was the music box and the magic lantern.

The first thing 1 saw was the music box.

It starts with a scene of a woman sitting at an old table, opening a music box.