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Meanings of aeolian harp in English
Portuguese
harpa eólica Catalan
arpa eòlica A harp having strings tuned in unison; they sound when wind passes over them.
Synonyms
Examples for "aeolian lyre"
Examples for "aeolian lyre"
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"The Samian's great AEolian lyre."
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A little shiver of sweet, sad sounds came from the wind harp.
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Phil went up-stairs and gathered together the broken pieces of his wind harp.
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Did Whitfield pronounce the word Mesopotamia like a wind harp sighing exquisite music?
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Was it my wind harp-mypoor little wind harp?
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Why, Phil, your wind harp is broken.
Usage of aeolian harp in English
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Her aeolian harp was in the casement, breaking its heart in music.
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But presently he knew that she was making an aeolian harp.
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The wires Davie speaks of may be the strings of an aeolian harp!
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Something is here that wants accounting for: it may be an aeolian harp!
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The Voice quivered along the Ray like the touched string of an aeolian harp.
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As he turned to go in, came a faint chord from the aeolian harp.
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Did you ever see an aeolian harp, my lady?
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The aeolian harp consists of a sound-box about 3 ft long, 5 in.
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And now you suggest it, I think the sounds we hear are not unlike those of an aeolian harp!
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These unseen effusions are the conversation of thought with itself the arpeggios involuntary but not unconscious, of that aeolian harp we bear within us.
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The aeolian harp is placed across a window so that the wind blows obliquely across the strings, causing them to vibrate in aliquot parts, i.e.
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Here he would sit near her hour after hour; sometimes mending her aeolian harp while they talked together, sometimes reading aloud to the assembled company.
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He heard, somewhere, the continual throbbing of a great drum, with desultory bursts of far music, inconceivably sweet, like the tones of an aeolian harp.
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In later times the Æolian harp has been improved by Messrs.
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The Daguerrean plate and the Aeolian harp do but meagerly interpret his receptivity.
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Dunstan cured by an Angel; his Encounter with Satan-TheÆolian Harp-St
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