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 Thomas Stevens
If there be a human talent, let it get into the tongue, and make melody with that organ.
From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
Sarah, never did you make melody like that, decent New Englander that you are!
From Jane Journeys On by Ruth Comfort Mitchell
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 Alfred Perceval Graves
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 Nathaniel Hawthorne