make melody

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We live in vocal times, when small birds make melody on every bough.

From In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays by Birrell, Augustine

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 Ginther, Pemberton

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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The magpie-robin or dhayal, who for months past has uttered no sound, save a scolding note when occasion demanded, now begins to make melody.

From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Dewar, Douglas

Then, when Heaven and earth and sea Are joining in Love's jubilee; While morning stars make melody, Shall man be mute alone?

From A Celtic Psaltery by Graves, Alfred Perceval