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Meanings of lyre in English

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Usage of lyre in English
1
For a short time the notes of the lyre sounded in vain.
Antonina; Or, The Fall of Rome
2
In fact, the lyre would be invented later, but that's another story.
Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods
3
I saw her pull on Paris's hand and point to a lyre.
Helen of troy
4
Then he touched the chords of his lyre and chanted these words:
Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) / Myths and Legendary He...
5
SOCRATES: Again; you sometimes accompany the lyre with the song and dance?
Alcibiades I
6
You should have seen him swimming with my lyre in his hand.
Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger
7
The Greek god of healing, Apollo, was often portrayed with a lyre.
The Guardian
8
In the ladies' bower above many a minne-singer has struck his lyre.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
9
Orpheus, tranquil and inspired, touched the quiet lyre surrounded by the Muses.
Children of the Market Place
10
Orpheus struck the chords of his lyre, and called forth ravishing sounds.
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable
11
No notes from the lyre could make themselves heard amid such confusion.
Roads from Rome
12
He now raised his lyre, and swept his hand over the chords.
Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters / An Unfini...
13
His lyre, always nearby when they were ashore, was not in evidence.
Roma Victrix
14
I am going to prove it, so let a lyre be brought.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2
15
Apollo followed, who presented his lyre to the Sieur Lebrun, and said-
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845
16
The lyre gives out true, full notes, which there is no mistaking.
The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur
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United Kingdom
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