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

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

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)