Harp Sentence Examples

He took off its cloth covering, and the harp gave out a jarring sound.

She resolved to give up learning the harp and to play only the guitar.

Or play, it is the harp of tuneful sound.

A small harp of this kind having 20 strings was discovered at Thebes in 1823.

The collar is formed of alternate roses with red and white leaves, and gold harps linked by gold knots; the badge is suspended from a harp surmounted by an imperial jewelled crown.

There is no age limit for learning to play the harp or piano.

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The nucleus of the township lies on high ground to the east of the Edgware road, which crosses the Welsh Harp reservoir of Regent's Canal, a favourite fishing and skating resort.

At a sufficient distance over the woods this sound acquires a certain vibratory hum, as if the pine needles in the horizon were the strings of a harp which it swept.

A shortage of ice could also affect hooded and harp seals which rely on the ice to rear pups.

The new authorization calls for the killing of 350,000 harp seals in two of the next three years, and 275,000 in the third.

The harp or clarsach brings its distinctive dream-like sound.

The young people, at the countess' instigation, gathered round the clavichord and harp.

Baby Harp Seal This baby harp seal will have a silky white coat for only the first three weeks of its life.

The chief musical instrument was the harp (hearpe), which is often mentioned.

One night, having quitted a festive company because, from want of skill, he could not comply with the demand made of each guest in turn to sing to the harp, he sought his bed and fell asleep. He dreamed that there appeared to him a stranger, who addressed him by his name, and commanded him to sing of "the beginning of created things."

The music was very harmonious, and it immediately awakened the giant, who went in pursuit of the dwarf and recovered the harp.

Get into a spin on a human gyroscope, pluck a magical harp and be led astray by a runaway briefcase.

In High street could be heard singers, accompanied by a harp and violin, bawling out in vulgar strains snatches of indecent songs.

The newly awakened interest in the Irish harp in recent years has brought with it an ever-increasing awareness of the lack of playable material.

Joined by Tom on harp, who is signed to Big Square Records, they build a fresh new sound.

As Essara watched the daily hustle and bustle unfold he idly plucked his harp.

This means more animals are being killed than would be considered prudent under a truly precautionary approach to harp seal management.

Late spring Greenland storms Drown thousands of harp seal pups, Nothing on TV.

We make gut and wire strings for the harp, and gut strings for tennis, badminton and squash racquets.

Its highly distinctive sound is based on an instrumental combination of harp, cuatro (a small, four stringed guitar) and maracas.

Azure a harp of stringed argent being our Royal and Imperial Arms.

This achieved nothing than to create a twanging, thrumming sound like the longest string of a harp.

The lyre and harp soundtrack was replaced with wailing heavy metal guitars.

Stringed instruments include orchestra instruments like the violin, cello, viola, and string bass, as well as the banjo, harp, and mandolin.

Popular Irish designs included on St. Patrick's Day sweaters consist of things like shamrocks, leprechauns, a harp or Celtic cross or phrases like, Luck of the Irish.

When they bump into each other, they swim in a circle and make sounds like plucking a harp's strings.

One of the most famous pieces, "Prologue", is the harp music rising and falling at the games' opening sequences.

While those whose existing mortgages aren't from Chase can still refinance with a mortgage from Chase, the HARP program is simply a shortcut to doing so, since all of your information is already in the system.

The animated angel plays haunting renditions of Christmas classics on her harp.

While diners enjoy the intimate lounge, they will find their mood soothed by live piano and harp music.

Christian yoga instructors say this album is great for a yoga session and that Briggs' harp playing is heavenly.

The music features violins, guitars, bass and often trumpets or a harp.

They Pedi began performing this music after Lutheran missionaries introduced them to the harp.

This theme vanished after the earlier episodes, and it was left for the Doctor to continually harp on Spock's Vulcanity as the series progressed - everyone else, apparently, had Gotten Over It.

After a few songs with harp accompaniment, the wedding party dispersed, and the bride and bridegroom quietly proceeded to their new home.

The first (Très lent) opens with a flute and clarinet theme answered by the strings followed by harp arpeggios.

The three most important Scottish instruments are the harp, bagpipe, and fiddle.

They play harp, flute, cittern, guitar, whistles and sing in close harmony with male and female voices.

Britten had in fact always been intending to write a harp concerto, so had been studying the instrument.

Featuring concertos including sonatas for two pianos, concertos for clarinet, flute and harp.

She teaches the clarsach and pedal harp in schools and privately and has recently formed a flute and harp duo with flutist Emma Wilkin.

At the end, the oboe motive returns, to be dismissed by a final harp glissando.

As one delicately plucks the strings of her Celtic harp, the other performs a captivating show with her crystal balls.

After she had played a little air with variations on the harp, she joined the other young ladies in begging Natasha and Nicholas, who were noted for their musical talent, to sing something.

Celtic writers talked about worshipping God with the " five stringed harp " meaning all five senses.

Other designs may include the guardian angel alone with her wings at her side while holding a harp, an angel with her arms outstretched to you or an angel that is introspective and withdrawn.

Tami Briggs' album My Piece I Give You is full of instrumental, Christian songs played on the harp.

But, secondly, the pneumatic utterances technically known as speaking with tongues failed to reach this level of intelligibility; for Paul compares "a tongue" to a material object which should merely make a noise, to a pipe or harp twanged or blown at random without tune or time, to a trumpet blaring idly and not according to a code of signal notes.

The harp is the travelling patterer for the Universe's Insurance Company, recommending its laws, and our little goodness is all the assessment that we pay.

The condenser method of making oscillations is analogous to the production of air vibrations by twanging a harp string at short intervals.

In his joyous aspect Bes plays the harp or flute, dances, &c. He is figured on mirrors, ointment vases and other articles of the toilet.

Papuans are very fond of music, using Pan-pipes, a Jew's harp of the Papuans' own fabrication, and the flute; on occasions Musk.

Characteristic of the east are the harp and the throwing-club and throwingknife, the last of which has penetrated into the forest area.

Dean was knee-deep in a dream, trying to pull his Visa card away from Jeffrey Byrne, who was sitting on a cloud playing a harp, when his bedroom was suddenly filled with light.

Although his poetical works are all comprised in one small volume, he strikes every string of the old harp of Iceland.

When, however, Zeno's edict (489) ordered the closing of the school of the Persians at Edessa, East and West drifted apart more and more; the ecclesiastical writer Narsai, " the Harp of the Holy Spirit," fled to Nisibis about 489.

In the music of the harp which trembles round the world it is the insisting on this which thrills us.

In the following year Napper Tandy took a leading part in organizing a new military association in Ireland modelled after the French National Guards; they professed republican principles, and on their uniform the cap of liberty instead of the crown surmounted the Irish harp. Tandy also, with the purpose of bringing about a fusion between the Defenders and the United Irishmen, took the oath of the Defenders, a Roman Catholic society whose agrarian and political violence had been increasing for several years; but being threatened with prosecution for this step, and also for libel, he fled to America, where he remained till 1798.

Tristan causes himself to be placed in a boat with his harp, and committed to the waves, which carry him to the shores of Ireland.

His hands were then bound, and he was cast into a den of venomous serpents; but he played so sweetly on the harp with his toes that he charmed the reptiles, except one adder, by which he was stung to death.

His fellow-worker Narsai, whom the Jacobites called " the leper," but the Nestorians " the harp of the Holy Spirit," apparently accompanied Barsauma from Edessa to Nisibis, where according to Barhebraeus he lived for 50 years.

In the middle of their talk in the sitting room, Dimmler came in and went up to the harp that stood there in a corner.