harp upon

Example Sentences

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Some sense of the grimly-ludicrous moved me to a fretful laugh, as I replied, “I have looked over it. In Heaven’s name, don’t harp upon it!”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

And that is the point which I want to harp upon, the necessity of keeping the goal in view and of not wandering off into side issues.

From Three Things by Glyn, Elinor

Smerdis Ahafid seems to harp upon his strings.

From The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems by Noe, Cotton

And when once found, he would harp upon it, ringing all possible changes, keeping it insistently, mercilessly before the public.

From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber

Why harp upon these half brothers, whom I never knew since they were infants, and scarcely then, for my early home was truly at a boarding school.

From Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House by Keckley, Elizabeth