make melody
Example Sentences
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Cuckoos are heard calling round about, singing birds make melody, and among them we both recognize the cheery clickety-click of my raisin-loving Herati friends, the bul-buls.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas
He may be a minstrel and make melody, you know, with some other instrument—a strange-fashioned one, peradventure, that never was seen before.
From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Stevens, Monica
"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 Auerbach, Berthold
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
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
