How To Use lyre In A Sentence
- The lyrebird of Australia imitates other birds - and other sounds as well.
- These include harps, lyres, whistles, horns, pan-pipes, bones, psalteries and some form of drum.
- After the battalion commanded by Gyges, there came young boys crowned with myrtle-wreaths, and singing epithalamic hymns after the Lydian manner, accompanying themselves upon lyres of ivory, which they played with bows. King Candaules
- He brought these things, with his own score of his music, in a purple cloth bag which Ortensia had worked for him, and she had embroidered a lyre on it in silver thread, with the word 'Harmonia' in cursive letters for a motto. Stradella
- Many of the riffs are righteously medieval in tone, but they rework those tripping arpeggios for a scorched-earth rock setting, without a lute, zither or lyre within earshot.
- The word barbiton was frequently used for the lyre itself. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
- Wrasse, butterflies, boxfish, porcupines and pufferfish round out the picture, while lyretail grouper, Napoleon wrasse and rock cod mix with regal, map and other angelfish.
- Yes, there is, and some people may not realise that yes, that there was an ancient constellation of the lyre, which was originally called the Lyre of the Pleiades.
- A beautifully decorated lyre from Ur depicts similar figures in lapis lazuli and shell.
- The Australian lyrebird is the greatest mimic of the bird world. Times, Sunday Times
