make melody

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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

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

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 Stevens, Thomas

"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

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