| 单词 | aeolian harp |
| 例句 | He listened intently and heard instead of warblings, fine strains of music like those of an aeolian harp. The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury 2012-04-20T02:00:07.610Z Mary, who was as sensitive to changes in manner as an aeolian harp is to the slightest breeze, looked at her hostess quickly and noticed the red rims on her eyelids. The Motor Maids' School Days 2011-09-17T02:00:33.303Z On the other hand, those who had been captured by his poetry expected to find a man whose sensitive organism responded nervously to every uttered word as an aeolian harp answers to the faintest breeze. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" The very wind of heaven was made to fan over an aeolian harp that it might enter his room, not as a strong fresh breeze, but as a breath of music. In Story-land “It was just one strain, almost as if the wind had blown over an aeolian harp.” The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp The wind blowing through the baling wire which anchored the stove-pipe to the wall sounded like an aeolian harp played by a maniac. The Dude Wrangler Frances Ridley Havergal had an aeolian harp sent to her which she tried to play with her fingers, and failed. And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses The wind, seeing his distress, soughed with a weird sweet sound like aeolian harps in the effort to comfort him, but he dropped the reins and laid his face in the hollow of his arm. The Way of the Wind It is like a bee going from flower to flower, a teasing, plundering, wayward zephyr, an aeolian harp, a ray of furtive light stealing through the leaves. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 It used the shrouds and stays of the still upright mainmast as an aeolian harp from which to draw horrible music. Overland But presently he knew that she was making an aeolian harp. Round Anvil Rock A Romance How grand its voice is, too, when it talks with the wind: a thousand aeolian harps cannot equal the beauty of the sighing of a great tree in leaf. Allan Quatermain "Thou hast tarried long, my lover," she said in a low sweet voice that was the distant note of aeolian harp, or summer zephyr soughing through the pines. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 Here he would sit near her hour after hour; sometimes mending her aeolian harp while they talked together, sometimes reading aloud to the assembled company. Authors and Friends These unseen effusions are the conversation of thought with itself the arpeggios involuntary but not unconscious, of that aeolian harp we bear within us. Amiel's Journal The mild and genial zephyrs were discoursing the low, sweet, melancholy music of their aeolian harps, among the gently-wavering tops of the whispering pines. Gaut Gurley It sounds just like an aeolian harp on which the chords of a solemn tune are struck. Guy Garrick The Voice quivered along the Ray like the touched string of an aeolian harp. The Secret Power Her voice, Sir Norman thought, was the sweetest he had ever heard, musical as a chime of silver bells, soft as the tones of an aeolian harp through which the west wind plays. The Midnight Queen As he turned to go in, came a faint chord from the aeolian harp. Donal Grant, by George MacDonald Her aeolian harp was in the casement, breaking its heart in music. Oldport Days He heard, somewhere, the continual throbbing of a great drum, with desultory bursts of far music, inconceivably sweet, like the tones of an aeolian harp. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American The voice was hers, and made strange echoes start Through all the haunted chambers of his heart, As an aeolian harp through gusty doors Of some old ruin its wild music pours. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow And now you suggest it, I think the sounds we hear are not unlike those of an aeolian harp! Donal Grant, by George MacDonald "Do you know, my lady," he asked Arctura, "how the aeolian harp is placed for the wind to wake it?" Donal Grant, by George MacDonald The wires Davie speaks of may be the strings of an aeolian harp! Donal Grant, by George MacDonald "But how could there be an aeolian harp up here?" said Arctura. Donal Grant, by George MacDonald This life of ours is a wild aeolian harp of many a joyous strain, But under them all there runs a loud perpetual wail, as of souls in pain. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It will be time enough to answer that question," replied Donal, "when it changes to, 'How did an aeolian harp get up here?' Donal Grant, by George MacDonald |
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