Sounds floated from other parts of the palace-an indistinguishable murmur of voices, the thrum of a cithern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Victorious]

She was taught music, and played the lute, harpsichord, and cithern, as well as having a sweet singing voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

Chapter X The music of cithern, flute and tambour sounded softly in the alabaster-columned chamber, the musicians hidden behind a lacy screen carved of ivory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Victorious]

The breeze that stirred the tapestries on the wall brought faint noises from the streets of Peshkhauri - occasional snatches of wailing song, or the thrum of a cithern.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conan Chronicles]

The breeze that stirred the tapestries on the wall brought faint noises from the streets of Peshkhauri -- occasional snatches of wailing song, or the thrum of a cithern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Adventurer]

J.F. C. Hecker, M.D., in his "Epidemics of the Middle Ages," stated that the music of the flute, cithern or other instrument alone afforded relief to patients affected with this disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

Hidden musicians began to play on flute and cithern as Conan entered, and five women, so heavily veiled and swathed in silk that he could see nothing but their dark eyes, began to dance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Victorious]

Many of the merchants 'tents were darkened now, and silence lay even on the picket lines of animals behind each, though the thin sounds of zither and flute, cithern and tambor, drifted from the nobles' portion of the camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Victorious]

Clavicithern: a cithern with keys like a harpsichord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dramatic Romances] Reference

That evening they sent for a Bavarian-Tyroler soldier, who played beautifully on the cithern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs] Reference

Melina entered now; he looked at the cithern; was glad that she had rigged it up again so prettily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter I. Book III] Reference

He writes light poetry and fashionable letters, strums on the cithern, and pretends to draw with crayon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of J J Rousseau]

He writes light poetry and fashionable letters, strums on the cithern, and pretends to draw with crayons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau] Reference

Geometry with a pair of compasses and a rule, Astronomy with bushel and stars, and Music with cithern and organistrum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

Any one of us could get in more local colour for the money, and give the crusader a cithern or citole instead of a guitar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays in Little] Reference

It was some miners singing various pretty songs, and accompanying their clear and shrill voices with a cithern and triangle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter IV. Book II] Reference

When still very young, she could run, and move with wonderful dexterity: she sang beautifully, and learned to play upon the cithern almost of herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter IX. Book VIII] Reference

Caravan men who have wandered for months through the desert long for the tones of the flute and the cithern, and the light swayings of the troops of dancers.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People] Reference

At first he thought it was the Harper come again to visit him; but he soon distinguished the tones of a cithern, and the voice which began to sing was Mignon’s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter I. Book III] Reference

Turning toward this semblance of a prison-cell Lysia spoke aloud -- her clear tones floating with mellifluous slowness above the half-hushed quiverings of the cithern-choir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ardath] Reference

Zeresh played upon the cithern, and Haman in his pleasurable excitement said: "To the wood workers I shall give abundant pay, and the iron workers I shall invite to a banquet.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4] Reference

This, however, she resisted: she took her cithern; she seated herself here, on this high writing-table, and sang a little song with touching grace: Such let me seem till such I be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter II. Book VIII] Reference

In illustration of the freedom they enjoyed in her presence and hearing, one of them, behind the curtain, touched a stringed instrument -- a cithern -- and followed the prelude with a song of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prince of India — Volume 02] Reference

Alberti not only bore the pain of this operation without a groan, but helped the surgeon with his own hands; and effected a cure of the fever which succeeded by the solace of singing to his cithern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series] Reference

After alighting the song continues, the strains becoming longer, thinner, and clearer, until they dwindle to the finest threads of sound and faintest tinklings, as from a cithern touched by fairy fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist in La Plata] Reference

The cithern lay unmolested on the couch, the rich curtains were drawn; everything was as he had left it last -- everything, but the pretty pink figure, with drooping eyes, and pearls in the waves of her rich, black hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Midnight Queen] Reference

Then Táhirih began to speak; and so bewitched were the great ladies that they forsook the cithern and the drum and all the pleasures of the wedding feast, to crowd about Táhirih and listen to the sweet words of her mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memorials of the Faithful] Reference

And now the cithern-playing, which had ceased, commenced again, accompanied by the mysterious thrilling bass notes of the invisible organ-like instrument, whose sound resembled the roll and rush of huge billows breaking into foam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ardath] Reference

"Poets of every kind, gentle and simple, with golden cithern and with rustic lute, came from every quarter to animate the suppers of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference

The instruments in the hands of the figures over the transepts are the psaltery and cithern, the regale, tabret, lute, violin, bagpipe and trumpet, (illustrating the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ely Cathedral] Reference

The breeze that stirred the tapestries on the wall brought faint noises from the streets of Peshkhauri " occasional snatches of wailing song, or the thrum of a cithern.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bloody Crown of Conan]

She struck the cithern in her hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

She carelessly took up her cithern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

Soaring cithern of plumes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonder-Working Magician] Reference

"Sweet players on the cithern strings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Provençal Lovers] Reference