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harper

noun as in minstrel

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They introduced me to dragons and dragonriders, wizards casting spells with words, ships with eyes and starships with voices, harpers posing riddles or playing instruments of bone, fairy tales turned upside down and inside out .

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She was the lovely, golden-haired harper who had tried for her talent and failed.

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When they became international stars in the 1970s, the group hired a harper named Derek Bell to play the old O’Carolan tunes, which as a result became part of every Irish band’s repertoire.

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Only one man in the kingdom seemed cast down: the man who’d been Hrothgar’s harper before the blind man came to make his bid.

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The harper government s threatening to pass legislation that will eviscerate the rights and freedoms of ordinary Canadians.

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