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Example sentences for "harped"

Lexicographically close words:
harneys; harnsome; harnt; harp; harpe; harpies; harping; harpings; harpist; harpit
  1. That harped to the king at dine, By the bonny mill-dams o’ Binnorie.

  2. As sweet and good is young Kathleen As Eve before her fall;" So sang the harper at the fair, So harped he in the hall.

  3. He had stayed too long, harped on one subject too steadily.

  4. She had harped on this word in regard to him.

  5. He harped upon the Foolish Young Fellow, till the foolish young fellow felt his skin tingle and was half-suffocated with shame and rage.

  6. And during the rest of May's visit Mr. Churchill constantly harped on this point.

  7. It was her own loss she harped on; her own misery.

  8. Never leave my son, Jehane,' was the string she harped on.

  9. David singing his Psalms and accompanying himself on the harp, the dove reminding us that he sang and harped under the influence of inspiration.

  10. Once she took harp into her hand, 25 And harped them asleep; Then she sat down at their couch side, And bitterly did weep.

  11. After that their harpers harped for them and their story tellers related true stories, provoking laughter and weeping.

  12. While Sualtam and his people feasted, the harper harped and trained singers sang.

  13. The mother, in this version, having harped her seven bairns asleep, sits down and weeps bitterly.

  14. She put the small pipes to her mouth, And she harped both far and near, Till she harped the small birds off the briers, And her true love out of the grave.

  15. An by there came a harper fine, That harped to the king at dine.

  16. Ance she took harp into her hand, And harped them a' asleep, Then she sat down at their couch-side, And bitterly did weep.

  17. She's ta'en her harp intill her hand, To harp this twa asleep; And ay as she harped and as she sang, Full sairly did she weep.

  18. With one accord reviewers harped upon the authorship, some of the less reputed papers embarking upon guesses.

  19. He was distinctly flattered by the way she harped upon this small concession.

  20. Money and business, business and money, were Richard Pellet's themes, and on the golden string they formed when twisted he harped continually.

  21. The knights they harped i their bower, The ladies sewd and sang; There was mair mirth in that chamer Than a' their father's lan.

  22. She put the small pipes to her mouth, And she harped both far and near, Till she harped the small birds off the briers, And her true-love out of the grave.

  23. She's taen her harp intill her han, To harp this twa asleep; An ay as she harped an she sang, Full sorely did she weep.

  24. The lady being left alone, Nursing her fair young son, She has taen up her gude lord's harp, She harped and she sung.

  25. She held the harp still in her hand, To harp them baith asleep, And aye she harped and she sang, And saut tears she did weep.

  26. Glenkindie was ance a harper gude, He harped to the king; And Glenkindie was ance the best harper That ever harpd on a string.

  27. Glasgerion was a kings owne sonne, And a harper he was good; He harped in the kings chamber, Where cuppe and candle stoode, And soe did hee in the queens chamber, Till ladies waxed wood.

  28. Harry still harped upon America, and with some disdain; and now, at length, his contempt found expression.

  29. Civilians, equally confident, harped upon a system of national granaries, and asked what imbecility of the national intellect had prevented us building them before?

  30. You don't see elsewhere any vein in movement-movement,' he harped on the word Victor constantly employed to express the thing he wanted to see.

  31. I harped on Major Worrell: my daughter insulted.

  32. I have harped to you on this point of my relative importance in the story because it was as a mere super that I entered from the wings and it is as a super in the last act that I retire.

  33. They harped on it, those two, while the younger girl was in the kitchen.

  34. And I saw as well the reason why she had harped so on needing 'a friend.

  35. She rather harped on the actress proposition because it so thoroughly annoyed her aunt, and matters between them had now come to such a pass, that they teased each other in any and every way possible.

  36. As Agnes said, whenever he got a new topic in his poor, disordered brain, he harped on it day and night.

  37. And sweet to know these sensitive vows shall soar Ev'n to the dull ear of her drowsy lord Beside her; heart-defying with each word Harped in the bird's voice rhythmically clear.

  38. Then all mine eyes and lips and limbs were fire; My tongue delirious throbbed a lawless lyre, That harped loud words of laud for loveliness, Inspired of such, but these I can not guess.

  39. He harped on the word, to erase the recollection of his first use of it.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "harped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.