She sat there with the zithern, letting her fingers glide gently over the strings. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
But she does not call herself Signora Ballatino, and she does not play upon the zithern. From Wordnik.com. [John Ingerfield and Other Stories] Reference
There were three sorts of stringed instruments, the lyre, the cithara (or zithern), and the harp. From Wordnik.com. [Outline of Universal History] Reference
I am having a statue erected to Mesomedes, the great zithern-player -- you perhaps know his songs. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Her black hair was in two long braids, and she was carrying a small musical instrument that Philip said was a zithern. From Wordnik.com. [Patty Blossom] Reference
"Go, then," I said, in my sternest accents, -- "go fetch a zithern, or a banjo, or a kit, or a hurdy-gurdy, or a fiddle.". From Wordnik.com. [The Brick Moon, and Other Stories] Reference
There was a zithern accompaniment by the girl in orange, but it was soft and unobtrusive, that the lines themselves might not be obscured. From Wordnik.com. [Patty Blossom] Reference
Blaney read some of his poems, to a zithern accompaniment, but they weren't very impressive, and not nearly so poetic as the lines he had written for her. From Wordnik.com. [Patty Blossom] Reference
He again repeated that she was the world-renowned performer on the zithern; and, undeterred by the audible remark of a lady in the pit to the effect that she'd "never 'eard on' er," added. From Wordnik.com. [John Ingerfield and Other Stories] Reference
Monarch of Mirth, "a gentleman evidently high in local request was, for some reason or other, not forthcoming, and in his place the management proposed to offer a female performer on the zithern, one Signorina. From Wordnik.com. [John Ingerfield and Other Stories] Reference
There is Caesar's zithern. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
While every wind his zithern strung. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar] Reference
Vine-like words and zithern-strings. From Wordnik.com. [Green Fields and Running Brooks, and Other Poems] Reference
There are great financiers, sea-captains, mathematicians, football players, engineers, bishops, wrestlers, runners, boxers, and players on zithern-strings. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists] Reference
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