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
She should particularly harp upon that fault or that failing by which the wife may appear to be the most affected.
From The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
What is there about Volney, please tell me, that you harp upon the name?
From The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories by Foote, Mary Hallock
At this meeting every speaker for awhile seemed as if he had hung his harp upon the willow; and it was one of the gloomiest meetings I ever attended.
From The Way to God and How to Find It by Moody, Dwight Lyman
And why did he harp upon this name Gessner, Richard Gessner!
From Aladdin of London or, Lodestar by Pemberton, Max, Sir
