Upon a harp-shaped box, eighteen to thirty-six feet long, fifty strings were stretched, which the player struck with a stick or a long-handled hammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.] Reference

This centre is connected by harp-shaped compartments, filled with pipes, to the two great round towers, one on each side, and each of them containing three colossal pipes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863] Reference

After seven years of work, which started with the rerouting of sewers and has included the construction of a spectacular harp-shaped bridge, barely half of a first line stretching 8.3 miles has been completed.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Jerusalem, Arabs and Jews Finally Agree ...] Reference

The wire-agency article went on to praise the East Pyongyang Grand Theater, where the performance will take place, as "an edifice of culture … Perfect are the harp-shaped walls of the seating hall, the stage and latest sound facilities.".    From Wordnik.com.  ['A Big Adventure'] Reference

So she puts a fist the size of a lime to her harp-shaped lips.    From Wordnik.com.  [Merced Sun-Star: front] Reference

Go around the snake column to find a room with a golden scarab beetle above the door and a harp-shaped switch inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gamezebo: Casual Game Reviews, Previews, Cheats, Tips, Forums, Free Games, and More] Reference

The bow or harp-shaped fibula, however, retained its place when once introduced, nearly as long as its circular forerunner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture] Reference

All the world over, tradition tells of harp-shaped instruments, usually played by mysterious harpists in the cool depths of river or ocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1906] Reference

These seals were of a species which they called "harps," because of the peculiar, harp-shaped markings on their back; and of the hair variety, for none of the valuable fur seals inhabits north Atlantic waters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bobby of the Labrador] Reference

First came a stag, a magnificent animal of a bay colour, fading into a whitey-brown, with elegantly, somewhat harp-shaped horns, marked with rings, and a black semi-circular mark on the croup by which it could be at once distinguished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Africa By an African Trader] Reference

She helped decorate the table with sprigs of artificial shamrock and Irish flags, hunted up verses from various poets of Erin to write on the little harp-shaped place cards, and suggested a menu which typified the "wearin 'o' the green" in every dish, from the olive sandwiches to the creme de menthe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware] Reference

Sailing around the harp-shaped Lake of Galilee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Roadside Attraction]

Years and years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Happy Holidays From the Hoary Hacks at Calbuzz] Reference