make melody

Example Sentences

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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

When in thy mother's womb thou west When its birds in the lake make melody vi.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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

But no concert is complete without singing, and if Jesus plays, must not Céline make melody with her voice?

From The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse by Taylor, Thomas N. (Thomas Nimmo)

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