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
My dear Adalbert, I beg of you, do not again harp upon the same old string about her being my own flesh and blood!
From The Wish A Novel by Sudermann, Hermann
Why will you always harp upon that string, Lilian?
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram
My harp upon the willows, grave, In weeping days is sadly hung, For, Lord, the joy Thy presence gave, Is from my soul in anguish wrung.
From Hymns from the Morningland Being Translations, Centos and Suggestions from the Service Books of the Holy Eastern Church by Brownlie, John
Dryden's translation: The praise of artful numbers I resign, And hang my harp upon the sacred pine.
From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander
