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lyre
1. I don’t recall Hector’s speech entirely, but these lines stand out in my mind: “And now can you not dare face Menelaus and learn what manner of man he is whose wife you’ve stolen? Where indeed would be your lyre
2. Even as a lad, it’s told he brained his music tutor with a lyre
3. Father played his lyre and Mother played her harp
4. He bought a lyre for her, so she could play songs to their growing child
5. She wanted nothing from here, but knew she’d need the clothes and fibula and lyre that Tragus had given her
6. They listen to the lyre and harp at their feast
7. She plays the lyre
8. Where, on a warrior's grave, a lyre is hung
9. I found an electric guitar shaped like Apollo's lyre that was so sweet I had to pick it up
10. “I have a lute, a flute and a lyre with me
11. and the lyre she had brought with her, she went to help Miriam with the heavy clay pot of water she was handling
12. Going upstairs for a minute, she came back with her lute, lyre and flute and took place near the windows giving a view on the plaza
13. Switching to her lyre, she played a Celtic tune, singing in 222
14. Nancy was practicing her lyre in a corner of the main hall of the inn, which had few customers at this time of the day, when Iram and Ephraim came to her, both with big smiles on their faces
15. In her arms were her lute and her lyre
16. Once Pegasus’ bridle was tied to a stake, Nancy took out her musical instruments from her bags, taking a luth, a lyre and a flute before following Yeshua towards the house
17. The result was a lyre to end all lyres
18. over to where the frame of the giant lyre was attached to the anchoring block and pointed to a small tunnel that had been bored into the block
19. The main cable above my head was again splayed out like a lyre of about fifty
20. holding the frame of the lyre
21. I would have a failure of nerve and attempt to seek refuge in art alone (playing scales on the lyre)
22. I went on to describe how terrified I was that I’d be trapped inside it and how, when I finally came out the other end, I refused to follow her any further and began banging on the giant lyre
23. In another case was a large urn decorated with a handsome youth playing a lyre
24. He ignored them and continued to play his lyre
25. According to the Old Testament, the young David relieved King Saul’s melancholy by playing the lyre: ‘And whenever the evil spirit Tfizr€13 was upon Saul, David took the lyre and played it with his hand and Soul was eat ease
26. “Wherever Orpheus played his lyre and sang his sweet voice, the animals—even the rocks—followed
27. He held his lyre upon his lap
28. “And I will play my lyre in my chamber beside yours,” Apollo said to Therese
29. Apollo played the lyre and Hermes the pipe, and the beautiful melodies lifted her spirits again and carried her to heights of optimism that gave her the feeling, as Than lay there stroking her hair, that nothing could stop her now
30. A greek liar, using a Greek lyre: to sing lies… This is where all Western music came from
31. She is the co-founder and Editor in Chief of two Writer’s Digest 101 Top Writing Sites of 2005 & 2006 and recipients of the Preditors and Editors Most Useful Writing Sites Award: Apollo’s Lyre, an online writer’s Zine: http://www
32. I hear the sound of the Hebrew lyre,
33. Whence came this insufficiency in life—this instantaneous turning to decay of everything on which she leant? But if there were somewhere a being strong and beautiful, a valiant nature, full at once of exaltation and refinement, a poet's heart in an angel's form, a lyre with sounding chords ringing out elegiac epithalamia to heaven, why, perchance, should she not find him? Ah! how impossible! Besides, nothing was worth the trouble of seeking it; everything was a lie
34. And when you want to keep a shield or a lyre, and not to use them, you would say that justice is useful; but when you want to use them, then the art of the soldier or of the musician?
35. There remain then only the lyre and the harp for use in the city, and the shepherds may have a pipe in the country
36. There were whitish eels of the species Gymnotus fasciatus that passed like elusive wisps of steam, conger eels three to four meters long that were tricked out in green, blue, and yellow, three–foot hake with a liver that makes a dainty morsel, wormfish drifting like thin seaweed, sea robins that poets call lyrefish and seamen pipers and whose snouts have two jagged triangular plates shaped like old Homer's lyre, swallowfish swimming as fast as the bird they're named after, redheaded groupers whose dorsal fins are trimmed with filaments, some shad (spotted with black, gray, brown, blue, yellow, and green) that actually respond to tinkling handbells, splendid diamond–shaped turbot that were like aquatic pheasants with yellowish fins stippled in brown and the left topside mostly marbled in brown and yellow, finally schools of wonderful red mullet, real oceanic birds of paradise that ancient Romans bought for as much as 10,000 sesterces apiece, and which they killed at the table, so they could heartlessly watch it change color from cinnabar red when alive to pallid white when dead
37. A star precipitated with great apparent velocity across the firmament from Vega in the Lyre above the zenith beyond the stargroup of the Tress of Berenice towards the zodiacal sign of Leo
38. In another photograph, Pat is once again seen centrally located behind a competition shield, this one decorated with a lyre
39. The shadow had followed behind them clinging to their steps; and the two children little suspected its presence when they at last sat down, trustingly, under the mighty protection of Apollo, who, with a great bronze gesture, lifted his huge lyre to the heart of a crimson sky
40. He kissed her lips; but the night that surrounded them was rent asunder, they fled as at the approach of a storm and their eyes, filled with dread of Erik, showed them, before they disappeared, high up above them, an immense night-bird that stared at them with its blazing eyes and seemed to cling to the string of Apollo's lyre
41. "Oh, you are getting like me now, seeing him everywhere! What I took for blazing eyes was probably a couple of stars shining through the strings of the lyre
42. "It was while I gave you that kiss, up above, under Apollo's lyre," she said
43. Apollo, it may here be mentioned, is useful as well as ornamental, for his lyre is tipped with a metal point which does duty as a lightning-rod, and conducts the fluid to the body and down the nether limbs of the god
44. Not just a friend, but an utterly non-crooked, straightest-of-the-straight friend with the last name Lyre
45. (“Of all the people,” said Kit, “you had to befriend a trust fund brat?”) Ciere would hang out with Lyre away from her crew, keeping him on the fringes of things
46. Devon Lyre sounds almost embarrassed when he answers
47. “I think she’s seen us,” calls Lyre
48. Daniel chances a look back; Lyre had the sense to belt himself in
49. “Turn left,” says Lyre
50. When he hears none, he whirls around, grabs Lyre by his coat, and shoves him up against the wall
