make melody
Example Sentences
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"You must marry some one who can sing with you," said he to Edward; "it would be a pity to have a wife who could not make melody along with you."
From Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. by Berthold Auerbach
If there be a human talent, let it get into the tongue, and make melody with that organ.
From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
I can't croak a note and my fingers never would make melody if I tried till I were a hundred.
From Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge by Pemberton Ginther
We live in vocal times, when small birds make melody on every bough.
From In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays by Augustine Birrell
Would it were possible to affix a wind-instrument to the nose, and thus make melody of a snore, so that a sleeping lover might serenade his mistress or a congregation snore a psalm-tune!
From Sketches from Memory (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Nathaniel Hawthorne
