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lyre sentence examples

  • A fine fresco of apollo playing a lyre - see picture - is thought to represent the young nero.
  • When he sang his songs to the orphic lyre, possessed by a divine frenzy, ficino knew what orpheus knew.
  • Lyre player on the side panel of the throne.
  • And must thy lyre, so long divine, degenerate into hands like mine?
  • Like her brother apollo, artemis was also associated with music, and was frequently depicted carrying a lyre.
  • V make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: what if my leaves are falling like its own?
  • Next, the herald came forward carrying demodocus ' ringing lyre.
  • To the left, a standing female holding a lyre.
  • Teacher mended the broken lyre of my life and gave me mental concepts to replace sight and hearing.
  • We must tune the lyre for winter moods, as the birds fly higher to southern woods.
  • Apollo is the god of music, playing a golden lyre.
  • The shepherd chosen by her in her holy heart, gudea, the ruler of lagac, placed the lyre ( ?
  • He immediately killed a tortoise and, hollowing out its shell for a sounding board, invented the lyre.

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