make melody

Example Sentences

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If there be a human talent, let it get into the tongue, and make melody with that organ.

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Carlyle, Thomas

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

"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

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

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