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How to use harp in a sentence

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The obverse of all denominations bore a harp, along with the legend Saorstat Eireann and the date the coin was struck.
Other creations include a retooled vintage piano, violins, wooden bells and a harp.
Smith and his colleagues are currently in Charlottetown, watch-dogging the commercial hunt for baby harp seals.
The harp seal and the minke whale together consume about the same amount of biomass as the Norwegian fishermen land, i.e. about 3 million tonnes.
I casually plucked a few strings on the harp then strolled over to the harpsichord.
The Bayou Brothers sound features a variety of instruments including the double bass, harmonica, washboard, kazoo, jaw harp, guitar and mandolin.
The curious bearded seal and harp seal birth their pups nearby ice floes or merely bask in the warmth of the midnight sun.
This arrangement demands an extremely colourful orchestra that includes piccolo, four horns, harp, orchestral bells, and tam-tam.
On this album there aren't any real strings or any orchestra instruments like harp or timpani.
The wind harp achieved its popularity in Romantic poetry largely because of its symbolic relationship with the forces of Nature.
The orchestra is most likely to be double woodwind, horns and trumpets, harp, piano, percussion and strings.
The harp is played by pulling down the length of a string with rosined gloves.
Many of the verses harp on the illicit and conjure a false world where women are mistresses and men, philanderers.
Playing everything from harp to bagpipes the band played at festivals, parades, shows and more.
The modern concert harp has 46 or 47 strings and a compass of six and a half octaves.
It was the slapstick premise of a woman who's innocently walking down the street when a harp flails out of a window and lands on her.
With a deep breath, Jeananne plucked at her harp and sang a shrieking tune to the only audience member without the means to block out sound.
The harp becomes the polyphonic instrument of choice as will be continually explained.
There is nothing florid here, nothing in the tradition of Romantic harp music.
The fiddle and harp were the most respectable, played by the troubadours and associated with courtly love.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Like most of the earlier monks of St. Gallen, he was a clever musician, equally skilful with the trumpet and the harp.
The sambuca seems to have been a large harp, which rested on the ground, like the harps of the Egyptians.
While he was able to sit up he would play on his mouth harp or hack away at his window sills with his jackknife.
Striking it with still greater violence, I could hear a prolonged musical vibration, that reminded me of an Eolian harp.
When resting, they utter a low, humming noise, which has been compared to the sound of an Eolian harp.
I have been listening for the last half hour to the wild music of an Eolian harp.
The females, especially in some of the lower keys of their voices, made sounds not unlike the sighing tones of the Eolian harp.
Then Sid put down his fiddle and his mouth harp and drawing from his coat pocket a crumpled paper, he began again.
They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
See how lovingly the water mirrors those harp strings all sparkly with gold and green!
The purpose that was in them broke into a wild war-music, as the wind harp swells and screams under the breath of the storm.
So he invented or improved the harp, and fixed the rules of verse and song.
Did Whitfield pronounce the word Mesopotamia like a wind harp sighing exquisite music?
Orpheus went into the woods one day and took nothing but his harp with him.
Oleum phoc, L. From the hood seal, and harp seal, and other species of Phocid.
The harp seal frequents the coast of Newfoundland and is so named from the harp-shaped band which marks the backs of the males.
Then comes a man with a Pandean pipe, next another with a semicircular harp and then one with a portable organ.
I had made a sort of harp or zittern, and they were charmed with its simple music.
This Lamont harp was taken by a lady of that family from Argyleshire about 1460, on her marriage into the family of lude.
For thick waterproof soles the skin of the beaver or the harp seal is used.
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