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单词 cithern
例句 cithern
A herald gave a shapely cithern harp to Phemios, whom they compelled to sing—and what a storm he plucked upon the strings for prelude! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
But, hark! there is a sound of a cithern, and some one singing. Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z
Barber's cithern"—"The instrument now ignorantly called a guitar. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z
It was some miners singing various pretty songs, and accompanying their clear and shrill voices with a cithern and triangle. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z
The king of Egypt arrived the first, mounted upon the bull Apis, and holding in his hand the cithern of Isis. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z
The red had left her lips, and her voice, which had been melodious as the consonance of citherns and guitars, grew abruptly harsh and strident. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes
He took his place with his back against the great hall door, in such attitude as men use when they play the cithern. Devil Stories An Anthology
Elsewhere one sees clouds of smoke which spread out from new chimneys, fish which turn round from a full basket, a cithern which hangs from the centre of a narrow niche. Intarsia and Marquetry
Melina entered now: he looked at the cithern,—was glad that she had rigged it up again so prettily. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z
The Lady Margaret was playing a soft Italian air upon the cithern, which she managed with excellent taste, to the entertainment of her temporary mistress and her half dozen attendants. The Panchronicon
Their instruments of music are all lutes and viols, flutes, cymbals, drums, fifes, citherns, organs, and harps that Ferrari's day could show. New Italian sketches
Give us up your souls      That our long fingers wake them verily Like dulcimers and citherns and violes;      Or at the burning disk of ecstasy Impose rare sigils on your gem-like souls. The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence
J. F. C. Hecker, M.D., in his "Epidemics of the Middle Ages," stated that the music of the flute, cithern or other instrument alone afforded relief to patients affected with this disease. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
She struck the cithern in her hand, And sang with 'witching air Her own sweet song, "Know'st thou the land?" The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
Caravan men who have wandered for months through the desert long for the tones of the flute and the cithern, and the light swayings of the troops of dancers. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People
Soon when the bands in lucid rows assemble, Flutes breathe, and citherns tremble. Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems
They had organs, lutes, viols, lyres, harps, citherns, horns, and a kind of primitive piano known as the clavichord or the clavicembalo. The Age of the Reformation
Herself shall bring us, hand in hand, To Him round whom all souls Kneel—the unnumber'd solemn heads Bowed with their aureoles: And Angels, meeting us, shall sing To their citherns and citoles. The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art
Group after group, singing to the notes of the cithern, saunter along the public ways, decked out in gorgeous butterfly apparel, which flutter around their limbs like gaily coloured wings. Halil the Pedlar A Tale of Old Stambul
Their instruments of music are all the lutes and viols, flutes, cymbals, drums, fifes, citherns, organs, and harps that Ferrari's day could show. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
Immediately a prelude of pipe, cithern, and viol, touched with practised minstrelsy, began to play from a neighboring thicket, in such a mirthful cadence that the boughs of the Maypole quivered to the sound. From Twice Told Tales
I began To instruct the little fellow   In the mysteries known to man; Sung the noble cithern's praise,   And the flute of dear old Pan, And the lyre that Hermes plays. Songs and Other Verse
After alighting the song continues, the strains becoming longer, thinner, and clearer, until they dwindle to the finest threads of sound and faintest tinklings, as from a cithern touched by fairy fingers. The Naturalist in La Plata
In illustration of the freedom they enjoyed in her presence and hearing, one of them, behind the curtain, touched a stringed instrument—a cithern—and followed the prelude with a song of Anacreontic vein. The Prince of India — Volume 02
The blithe bird that flies afar, Drest in shifting shades and blooms— Soaring cithern of plumes Harping high o'er heaven's blue bar. The Wonder-Working Magician
They carried small citherns, and arriving in front of the shrine, they knelt down in a semicircle, and very gently began to strike the short, responsive strings. Ardath
Then with preluding low, a thousand harps, And citherns, and strange nameless instruments, Sent through the fragrant air sweet symphonies, And the winged dancers waved in mazy rounds, With changing lustres like a summer sea. The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1
Sweet players on the cithern strings, And they who roam the world like kings, Are gathered there, so blithe and free! The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4
She held a little cithern by the strings, Shaped heartwise, strung with subtle-colored hair Of some dead lute player That in dead years had done delicious things. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2
Though present times, and past, with evils be snared, They shall not last: with cithern silent Muse, Apollo wakes, and bow hath sometime spared. A Defence of Poesie and Poems
Nothing but the flute or the cithern afforded them relief.  The Black Death The Dancing Mania
For haply our best instrument, Pipe or cithern, stopped or strung, Mimics but some spirit tongue. Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters
Any one of us could get in more local colour for the money, and give the crusader a cithern or citole instead of a guitar.  Essays in Little
Procession of Priests and people, with citherns, harps, and cymbals. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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