Page 365 at this crime now turned their lyres to man’s destruction, tuneful now for ill.
How that none of my brother Apollo’s lyres can refrain from sounding the praises of Stilicho?
We count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet wailing singers slumber,-- But o'er their silent sister's breast The wild flowers who will stoop to number?
Lyres were of many sizes and varied in outline according to period and nationality.
Passing by the story of the discovery of the lyre from a vibrating tortoise-shell by Hermes, we will glance at the real lyres of Egypt and Semitic Asia.
The Egyptians always strung their lyres fan-shaped, like the modern Nubian kissar.
Two hearts in center pierced with arrows, small flowers on stippled background, lyres in border.
Garden lyres and Rose bowers are rotting on the ground in old Virginia gardens, and I fear they will never be replaced.
From lyres and lutes their softest wooings bring, As Ishtar bows before her lover king.
Ten thousand harps and lutes and golden lyres Are waiting now to start the Heavenly choirs.
Fair temples graced each blossoming field, And columned halls in gems arrayed; Night shaded the sea with her jewelled shield, And sweet the lyres of Orpheus played.
Eutychides is coming with his odes; he left instructions to burn along with him twelvelyres and twenty-five boxes of airs.
We count the broken lyresthat rest Where the sweet wailing singers slumber, But o'er their silent sister's breast The wild-flowers who will stoop to number?
So let the first and last activity Of what you say so often is your love Be always to remember that our lyres Are not strung for Today.
Our lyreshave many strings, But he must know them all, for he is Merlin.
There were three handsome chairs in this room, which indeed were the only valuable pieces of furniture in the Schloss, heavy Empire arm-chairs of mahogany, with spiral arms and yellow upholstery on which blue-green lyres were embroidered.
The pictures of these two lyres show that they looked much like viols and were played with bows.
Harps of fourteen, andlyres of seventeen, strings are found to have been used by ordinary Egyptian musicians 1570 B.
Blind men wandering around with lyres and songs were asked for news.
I hold No craftsman could string and no artisan mould; He shaped it, He strung it, who fashioned the lyres That ring with the hymns of the seraphim choirs.
Noël had been really keen on the Roman lyres and things he could easily have been a stowaway, and gone unknown.
The priests played nearly stifled chords on their lyres from time to time, and in the intervals of the music might be heard the tinkling of the little golden chain, and the regular patter of her papyrus sandals.
The very volume which places lutes and lyres in the Great Canyon, also tells of a forest elsewhere, which is a "Forest of Lutes and Lyres" (note 25.
If falling water under certain peculiar acoustic circumstances can produce notes like those struck off from harp-strings, the tones can also be compared to those of lutes or lyres (for all are stringed instruments.
Exquisite delicacies were set before him, and the splendid palace resounded with the music of lyres and lutes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lyres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
