Like her brother Apollo, Artemis was also associated with music, and was frequently depicted carrying a lyre. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Kinnor is more of a zither than a harp; therefore we render the word lyre, because only as lyres developed did harps result. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
The music of our lyre is the love and thought we bring to our every-day life. From Wordnik.com. [As a Matter of Course] Reference
He was weak; it was his only fault, weak as the string of a lyre, which is so strong when it is taut. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference
His lyre was a fine old one of polished tortoiseshell, with arms of slender horn and a bridge of ivory. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
They were taught to play a stringed instrument, called the lyre, and at the same time to sing to their own accompaniment. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
According to Greek mythology, Hermes made a lyre, which is a kind of harp, out of the shell of a tortoise, and on a vase in the Museum at. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1906] Reference
To be the lyre is to be the wind itself. From Wordnik.com. [Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'] Reference
His instrument is a kind of lyre not unlike our violin. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia] Reference
A musical instrument, supposed to have been a kind of lyre, or a harp with twelve strings. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
And let one go quickly, and fetch for Demodocus the loud lyre which is lying somewhere in our halls. From Wordnik.com. [Book VIII] Reference
And let one go quickly, and fetch for Demodocus the loud lyre which is lying somewhere in our halls. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
A kind of lyre played by means of a plectrum, which was a small piece of metal, wood, or bone. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University] Reference
The lyre is a winged instrument. From Wordnik.com. [Pearls of Thought] Reference
The word barbiton was frequently used for the lyre itself. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
But thy knowledge is born with thee, and so my lyre is thine. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
He heard soft strains from a distant lyre, and they sweetly moved his soul. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
By then, she might have given up her foolish, happy lyre and begun her own acrobatics. From Wordnik.com. [Steady Keel] Reference
Anyone can be Nero nowadays ... just need bad poetry, a lyre, and a fat expense account!. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from The Vicious Circulation of Dr Catastrope] Reference
Take my lyre, the soother of the wearied, the sweet companion in hours of sorrow or of feasting. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
A portrait on the wall, covered with fly-spots, shows a nymph with a lyre, standing beside a waterfall. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Taking his lyre and casque Orpheus promises obedience and with renewed hope sallies forth on his mission. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Then, touching the chords of the lyre, he filled the air with sweet music, and they both took their way to. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
On the cool, perfumed air floated the softest strains, flowing like rippling water from cithara, lute and lyre. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
He understood, however, that he produced no enthusiasm, and collected himself to touch another chord of his lyre. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In vain Hermes sought a place wherein to hide himself, and great fear came upon him till he thought of his tortoise-lyre. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
On the other side was a similar figure, playing on the lyre, with a sky-blue vest and rose-colored veil that fluttered about her. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
His hair shook drops of light from its curls; his robes were like the edge of the sunset cloud; in his hands he held a golden lyre. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
But the clanging of cymbals was near, the strains of the lyre broke in, and the low tones of the mellow flute kept up a sacred melody. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Aphrodite, so that no lyre or lute could be more harmonious or in tune than your married life, as the result of philosophy and concord. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Patriotism has inspired him, and the ever well-tuned chords of his lyre ring out with bolder and more soul-stirring melody than of old. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
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