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
Are you going to harp upon the same string?
From Saint Michael A Romance by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
And he shattered the still vibrating harp upon the rocks at his feet.
From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Dahn, Felix
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
In his hand was a harp, upon which he played, while he sang an old song telling how Joseph of Arimathea came to that land.
From Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
