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Example sentences for "lute"

Lexicographically close words:
lustrous; lustrum; lusts; lusty; lusus; lutea; luted; lutes; lutestring; luteum
  1. Remember that the lute of Orpheus itself could not have charmed the beasts had they been warned to expect too much.

  2. He named her Philomèle, and desired the lute of Orpheus that he might play an accompaniment to her wondrous singing.

  3. Take the lute and violin, Let the solemn harp begin, Instruments strung with ten strings, While the silver cymbal rings.

  4. Or an hand to wear and tire On the thankful lute or lyre!

  5. In the same poem, Porphyro sings to his lute an ancient ditty, "In Provençe called 'La Belle Dame sans Merci.

  6. In the pauses of her tale stray lute notes creep in at the casement, with noises from the tennis court and the splash of a hound swimming in the moat.

  7. He was the poet of the lute and the nightingale, rather than of the shock of spear in tourney and crusade.

  8. There in the winter evenings he welcomes his friends to the cheerful room with the large window, and sometimes they sing good songs or holy hymns in parts, accompanied by the lute and harp, music at which Dr.

  9. She struggled to rise, but, finding herself unequal to the effort, she sank back again on a chair, dropped her lute on a soft footstool, and then buried her face in her hands.

  10. She was sitting at the open window, with her lute in hand, gazing into the vacancy of the square below; and as Macassar walked across the room, a deep sigh escaped from her bosom.

  11. Awake up, my glory; awake, lute and harp: I myself will awake right early.

  12. He intends, he says, to awake early, and sing it to lute and harp.

  13. And he took the lute player through the prison himself.

  14. After three days the lute player came to take leave of the king.

  15. Then she went into the great court in front of the palace, and taking her lute in her hand, she began to play so beautifully that one felt as though one could never hear enough.

  16. Do not speak of reward,' answered the lute player.

  17. Then she took her lute and, without saying anything to anyone, she went forth into the wide world.

  18. As soon as the king heard this song he ran out to meet the lute player, took him by the hand and led him into the palace.

  19. After she had played for some time she began to sing, and her voice was sweeter than the lark's: 'I come from my own country far Into this foreign land, Of all I own I take alone My sweet lute in my hand.

  20. Never would you have seen your king again, if a young lute player had not delivered him.

  21. So the lute player stayed on in the palace and sang and played almost all day long to the king, who could never tire of listening and almost forgot to eat or drink or to torment people.

  22. The evidence of divine Mind's healing power and abso- 177:6 lute control is to me as certain as the evidence of my own existence.

  23. Orpheus with his lute made trees And the mountain tops that freeze Bow themselves when he did sing: To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring.

  24. And we thought you might get Jimmie to play the bones for us, and p'r'aps Lute Dunbar might bring over his accordian.

  25. Maybe Lute Dunbar isn't home yet and we can get their paths.

  26. The Good Shepherd is a pictorial symbol that has never fallen into disuse, and that of Orpheus with his lute or pipe is analogous to it.

  27. Singing helped the verses best, And when singing's best was done, To my lute I left the rest.

  28. Defn: To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.

  29. Defn: Lute for protecting vessels from the fire.

  30. Defn: To separate, as things cemented or luted; to take the lute or the clay from.

  31. Defn: An old instrument of the lute or cittern kind.

  32. Defn: An ancient musical instrument, of the lute kind; a bandore.

  33. Knaves are men That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.

  34. Knaves are men, That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.

  35. To his sweet lute Apollo sang the motions of the spheres, The wondrous orders of the stars whose course divides the years, And all the mysteries above; But none of this could Midas move: Which purchased him his ass's ears.

  36. Airs to sing and play to the Lute and Bass-viol, 1610.

  37. With that his lute he twanged straightway, And thereon began most sweetly to play; And after that lessons were played two or three, He strain'd out this song most delicatelie.

  38. My Lute and strings may not deny, But as I strike they must obey; Break not them so wrongfully, But wreak thyself some other way; And though the songs which I indite Do quit thy change with rightful spite, Blame not my Lute!

  39. My strings in spite with great disdain, Yet have I found out for thy sake, Strings for to string my Lute again: And if perchance this silly rhyme Do make thee blush at any time, Blame not my Lute!

  40. Of this or that as liketh me; For lack of wit the Lute is bound To give such tunes as pleaseth me; Though my songs be somewhat strange, And speak such words as touch my change, Blame not my Lute!

  41. MUSIC Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing: To his music plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lute" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adhesive; banjo; guitar; lute; mandolin; samisen; sitar; ukulele