make melody
Example Sentences
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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
I can't croak a note and my fingers never would make melody if I tried till I were a hundred.
From Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge by Ginther, Pemberton
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)
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
