How To Use Lyre In A Sentence
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The lyrebird of Australia imitates other birds - and other sounds as well.
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These include harps, lyres, whistles, horns, pan-pipes, bones, psalteries and some form of drum.
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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
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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
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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.
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The word barbiton was frequently used for the lyre itself.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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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.
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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.
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A beautifully decorated lyre from Ur depicts similar figures in lapis lazuli and shell.
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The Australian lyrebird is the greatest mimic of the bird world.
Times, Sunday Times
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The angels are playing a collection of musical instruments, including the harp, tambourine, cymbals, lyre and psaltery.
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Of particular importance are Albert's lyrebird Menura alberti, the superb lyrebird M. novaehollandiae and rufous scrub-bird Atrichornis rufescens, both of which represent families with only two species, and are endemic to Australia.
Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves, Australia
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In the full august assembly, Nero discovered enthroned, not unmajestic in deportment, yet effeminately chapleted, and holding a lyre: suppose him just returned from Elis, a pancratist, the world's acknowledged champion.
An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages
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He was a fine musician, playing the lyre, and he used music as a means to help those who were ill.
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Doni [8] mentions the barbiton, defining it in his index as _Barbitos seu major chelys italice tiorba_, and deriving it from lyre and cithara in common with testudines, tiorbas and all tortoiseshell instruments.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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Materials for the Rebec would be much the same as for the harp or lyre, although the Rebec has only three strings.
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The positions of the hands of the executants on the harps and lyres, as well as the use of short and long pipes, make it appear probable that something of what we call harmony was known to the Egyptians.
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
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You raise towns of brick on roads of dust, my flute, my drum, my lyre to strum, in lust.
Archive 2009-07-01
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Hepplewhite is most associated with pierced and shield-back chairs often with wheels, lyres, or Prince of Wales feathers, and painted or japanned work of gold on black.
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If someone refuses to watch another TV news besides Fox news and they represent58 million or 45% of the total number of American voters who voted in the November 2008 election, we're in for a pack of trouble since theymay likelyresort to much more radical measures like staging some kind of a false flag attack on US soil in which the Islamic militants are blamed or perhaps aKennedy style coup.
How Do We Reach The Rightwing Who Hate Obama and Condemn Katie Couric ?
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We also had this ‘wind harp,’ a lyre with gut strings, that we'd de-tuned and stuck out in the wind on the truck.
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But if we could have store of the _philyrea folio leviter serrato_ (of which I have rais’d some very fine plants from the seeds) we might fear no weather, and the verdure is incomparable, and all of them tonsile, fit for cradle-work and _umbracula frondium_: a decoction of the
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
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A feature of the book that has attracted much attention is ‘a world list of superior singers’ including 194 species, from Australian lyrebirds to canaries, heard by himself or reported by others.
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Two lyre-like instruments, Kitharas I & II, date from 1938 and have twelve hexads per instrument.
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Additionally, as the "impressions" which strike the chords are themselves conceived as both "external and internal" to the lyre, to recall the earlier grouping, the locus of adjustment is itself displaced into an indeterminate rhythmic activity.
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
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It is with feelings of deep sadness that we record the passing of Tommy Kenneally, Lyreattin, Cappagh at his home recently at the age of seventy.
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He had a small lyre strapped to his back, and a shining ocarina hanging from a cord around his neck.
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I had barely started walking before the lyrebird stopped me in my tracks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The angels are depicted as playing a collection of musical instruments, including the harp, tambourine, cymbals, lyre and psaltery.
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The angels are playing a collection of musical instruments, including the harp, tambourine, cymbals, lyre and psaltery.
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And the pipe is ever dropping honey and the lyre's strings are ever strung.
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And indeed she did, for as she entered the meadhall, a tremendous sound of multiple lyres and harps greeted her.
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Each of these "Apollonian" instruments was historically referred to as a lyre and demanded attentive tuning: in the cabinet below the harp we find its tuning mechanism, whose tau-like shape evokes the spiritual temperament of the Franciscan Order. 309
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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A singer could never tolerate a lyre that did not match his voice, nor a coryphaeus a chorus that did not chant in tune.
NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
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Kylaithis; but he couldn't even stitch a plectron to a lyre -- the other one, who lives near the house of Hermodorus, after you have left the street, was pretty good once, but he's too old, now; the late lamented Kylaithis -- may her kinsfolk never forget her -- used to patronize him.
Satyricon
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The angels are playing a collection of musical instruments, including the harp, tambourine, cymbals, lyre and psaltery.
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She had hair made of strands of pure gold, and eyes like the hundred thousand sapphire blue irises that had encased Nighting Lyre.
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The rainforest at its base (known as Leura Forest) is renowned for lyrebirds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Various informational signs promised lyrebirds, Golden Whistlers, and other gems, but I found the forest fairly silent.
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Materials for the Rebec would be much the same as for the harp or lyre, although the Rebec has only three strings.
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And the wild oak-trees to this day, tokens of that magic strain, that grow at Zone on the Thracian shore, stand in ordered ranks close together, the same which under the charm of his lyre he led down from Pieria.
The Argonautica
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The cows tend to be tall, angular and very feminine at maturity with upsweeping horns that acquire a lyre shaped twist with age.
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He preferred his social life and his poetry and his lyre.
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The superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) also inhabits this ecoregion and may have drastically affected vegetation and erosion rates: it turns over an estimated 63,000 kilograms (kg) of debris per hectare each year looking for food or nest-mound building materials.
Eastern Australian temperate forests
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And he took the hollow lyre and laid it in his sacred cradle, and sprang from the sweet-smelling hall to a watch-place, pondering sheer trickery in his heart — deeds such as knavish folk pursue in the dark night-time; for he longed to taste flesh.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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He was weak; it was his only fault, weak as the string of a lyre, which is so strong when it is taut.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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One of the film's great treats, superbly photographed, shows the lyrebird in glorious display, hurling importuning calls into the skies -- a huge repertoire of songs, some sounds copied from other birds and others picked up from humans, such as, remarkably enough, camera clicks.
Calls of the Wild
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It is a uniform bright yellow and has a large lyre-shaped caudal fin.
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I looked about her room: the mess of clothes and jewels hung up or thrown down when she would not choose; the phials and jars and mirrors, the pots of physic everywhere; the warm frowst of women in a closed-up place; and I remembered it long ago, curtains flung wide to the sun, clean polished wood smelling of beeswax and lemon thyme; a bow and a silk cap on the unused bed; a lyre propped against the window-column, and crumbs on the sill for birds.
The Bull From The Sea
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In the time since he had left his native Ballyredmond and taken up his abode in Rathvilly he had spent a period of time in Courtown, Co. Wexford.
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For just as those trained in the canons of the lyre declare the sesquialter proportion produces the symphony diapente, the double proportion the diapason, the sesquiterte the diatessaron, the slowest of all, so the specialists in Bacchic harmonies have detected three accords between wine and water — Diapente,
Essays and Miscellanies
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What - to go back to very first principles - is at the heart of an art that is underwritten by no mere etymological coincidence: lyre as musical instrument; lyric as literary text?
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In Ireland, however, images of harps show quadrangular instruments, possibly lyres.
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The lyrebird, most commonly found in Australia, is capable of mimicking an extraordinary range of sounds while singing to attract a mate.
Weekend Diversions: Lyrebirds : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
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I wondered what he was thinking as we swayed to the melody of softly playing lutes, harps, and lyres.
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There was a fief, a tambourine, lyres and lutes.
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Thus, only two instruments, the lyre and the zither, are needed.
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Thus the poet Melchior would never have consented to abandon what he called his lyre, to write a commercial prospectus or an electoral address.
Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
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The most ancient sense of the word is a _place for dancing_, and in these choruses young persons of both sexes danced together in rows, holding one another by the hand, while the citharist, or the player on the lyre, sitting in their midst, accompanied the sound of his instrument with songs, which took their name from the choruses in which they were sung.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
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His lyre was a fine old one of polished tortoiseshell, with arms of slender horn and a bridge of ivory.
The Praise Singer
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Kinnor is more of a zither than a harp; therefore we render the word lyre, because only as lyres developed did harps result.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
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Let the lyres of joy be heard across the land, let nymphs cavort on the greensward of happiness, let angels parp their trumpets of glee, let… etc etc etc.
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It is impossible to fault the engineering on L'Oiseau-Lyre's disc of Bach works for harpsichord played by Christophe Rousset.
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She thinks of jaguars, night herons, flamingos, ocelots, parakeets, lyrebirds, roseate terns.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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Each of these "Apollonian" instruments was historically referred to as a lyre and demanded attentive tuning: in the cabinet below the harp we find its tuning mechanism, whose tau-like shape evokes the spiritual temperament of the Franciscan Order. 309
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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The word "muse" has the tendency to elicit thoughts of fair-skinned, lyre-playing goddesses with beachy curls.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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Contradictories as _No centaurs play the lyre -- Some centaurs do play the lyre_; or _All unicorns fight with lions -- Some unicorns do not fight with lions_, are both meaningless, because in Zoology there are no centaurs nor unicorns; and, therefore, in this reference, the propositions are not really contradictory.
Logic Deductive and Inductive
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They had organs, lutes, viols, lyres, harps, citherns, horns, and a kind of primitive piano known as the clavichord or the clavicembalo.
The Age of the Reformation
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Tell me, because there are two Kerdons, one is that blue-eyed fellow, the neighbor of Myrtaline the daughter of Kylaithis; but he couldn't even stitch a plectron to a lyre -- the other one, who lives near the house of Hermodorus, after you have left the street, was pretty good once, but he's too old, now; the late lamented Kylaithis -- may her kinsfolk never forget her -- used to patronize him.
The Satyricon — Complete
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There are no lyrebirds in my garden, but there are a few others.
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Awake, my soul! Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
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On the walls you may have noticed the Ane qui vielle, -- the ass playing the lyre; and on all the old churches you can see "bestiaries," as they were called, of fabulous animals, symbolic or not; but the symbolism is as simple as the realism of the oxen at Laon.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
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Prince Henry Lubomirski, playing on a lyre, with two naiades listening.
Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
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The Greeks believed that the cithara had come into Greece as a three-stringed lyre in the ninth century and that it had been developed in Greece itself.
Archive 2010-08-01
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These include harps, lyres, whistles, horns, pan-pipes, bones, psalteries and some form of drum.
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In his book Why Birds Sing, jazz musician David Rothenberg reports that in the 1930s, an Australian flute-playing farmer in Dorrigo, New South Wales, kept a lyrebird as a pet, who liked to sing a fragment of one of the songs the man played.
Birdology
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For just as those trained in the canons of the lyre declare the sesquialter proportion produces the symphony diapente, the double proportion the diapason, the sesquiterte the diatessaron, the slowest of all, so the specialists in Bacchic harmonies have detected three accords between wine and water — Diapente,
Essays and Miscellanies
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Besides the chance of spotting a wombat, Girraween also is home to that ultimate mimic, the lyrebird, and the wonderful powerful owl, which eats whole possums and throws away their tails.
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Then came the first canticum, a glorious tenor aria sung to the accompaniment of a lyre.
The Grass Crown
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In recent habitats, Lyreidus does not inhabit shallow, inshore environments but, instead, is found in outer shelf and slope environments, generally on soft substrata.
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At the symposium, women danced and sang and performed on the double-reeded aulos (like an oboe or shawm), or lyre, having been hired, sometimes, on the street.
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In ancient Greece female professional musicians were usually slaves and prostitutes, such as the highly educated hetairai who often sang and accompanied themselves on the lyre.
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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.
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All in all, this instrument is quite unlike the classical kithara - a dwarf version of a lyre, but the match of the initial syllable is interesting.
The kithara
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The angels are playing a collection of musical instruments, including the harp, tambourine, cymbals, lyre and psaltery.
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I should have sung for you, but with my lyre unstrung epithalamia were not on hand.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Trumpeters, lyre players, and flutists, as well as comic and tragic actors, received 3,000 drachmae.
The Augustan Games of Naples
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In the lower left, below the sack, was a type of harp called a lyre.
The World Above
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Other species include the well-known gang-gang cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum, glossy black cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami, superb lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae, crimson rosella Platycercus elegans, kookaburra Dacelo gigas, and satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus.
Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
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I wondered what he was thinking as we swayed to the melody of softly playing lutes, harps, and lyres.
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His distinctive voice resonates like polished grit over a combination of searing strings, Hawaiian lap steels, mellotrons and even enchanted lyres.
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So for instance, the lyre bird is the storyteller of the bush, not only because it doesn't have a voice of its own, but because it keeps the law.
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Elsewhere in the valley you might see other birds as fantastic as their names: gang-gangs, king parrots, satin bowerbirds, laughing kookaburras, and lyre-birds that dance in clearings with tails fanned out like peacocks.
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We skywayed above the famed Three Sisters peaks, bushwalked among waterfalls and canyons, and spotted lyrebirds, cockatoos and kookaburras in the eucalyptus-forested valley.
Lea Lane: Only Have a Week? A Deluxe Quickie to Oz
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The bronzes included statuary and furnishings - a statue of a winged Eros, a head of Dionysus on a herm (rectangular shaft), and large statuettes of Eros playing a lyre, of three dancing dwarfs, a satyr, an actor, Hermes, and a dog.
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Ares and the keen-eyed Slayer of Argus, while Apollo plays his lyre stepping high and featly and a radiance shines around him, the gleaming of his feet and close-woven vest.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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And he took the hollow lyre and laid it in his sacred cradle, and sprang from the sweet-smelling hall to a watch-place, pondering sheer trickery in his heart -- deeds such as knavish folk pursue in the dark night-time; for he longed to taste flesh.
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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Albert's lyrebird is essentially confined to the Tweed Volcano/Border Ranges locality.
Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves, Australia
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The mosaics depict a range of fabulous creatures, gods, and heroes, including the four seasons, Orpheus playing a lyre, Perseus and Andromeda, an astrologer, and a Medusa head.
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Both sirens and mermaids have musical talents; bird-sirens sing and play the pipes and the lyre, whereas mermaids rely on their voices to entice sailors to their death.
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Elsewhere in the valley you might see other birds as fantastic as their names: gang-gangs, king parrots, satin bowerbirds, laughing kookaburras, and lyre-birds that dance in clearings with tails fanned out like peacocks.
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In the middle, on a raised platform, Apollo plucked at his kithara, a seven-stringed lyre, while Dionysus blew on his double-reeded aulos.
PERSEPHONE THE PHONY
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She could see it now; musicians years from now would sing of the grand exploits of the amazing Adrianna while plucking at their lyres and mandolins.
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Other species include the well-known gang-gang cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum, glossy black cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami, superb lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae, crimson rosella Platycercus elegans, kookaburra Dacelo gigas, and satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus.
Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
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And when they had put away craving for drink and food, they started out with the lord Apollo, the son of Zeus, to lead them, holding a lyre in his hands, and playing sweetly as he stepped high and featly.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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A few feet from where I crouched, a superb lyrebird performed its repertoire of mischievous mimicry.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today, the most widespread vegetation type is hard-leafed or sclerophyllus shrublands called maquis or matorral, which include representatives from the plant genera Juniperus, Myrtus, Olea, Phillyrea, Pistacia, and Quercus.
Biological diversity in the Mediterranean Basin
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The satyr, finding an aulos, a flute that had been discarded by Athena, recklessly challenged Apollo, god of music and master of the lyre, to what the jazzmen call a cutting contest, to see which one of them was more adept on his instrument.
The Lampshade
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He is, therefore, summoned to their presence, and prompt obedience will insure him forgiveness; but in case of contumacy, let him beware how he again essays either the lyre or the pallet.
Saint Ronan's Well
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The lyre (Tamboura) and a kind of fife with a dismal sound, made of the hollow Dhourra stalk, are the only instruments I saw, except the kettle-drum.
Travels in Nubia
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The Lyre of Orpheus is Abattoir's romantic, come-down counterpart, though Cave can't resist rhyming the title with ‘orifice.’
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Other species include the well-known gang-gang cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum, glossy black cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami, superb lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae, crimson rosella Platycercus elegans, kookaburra Dacelo gigas, and satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus.
Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
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Symmetry, geometric forms, and decorative motifs such as swags, urns, and lyres were combined in the architecture of the period.
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When 'Omer smote' is bloomin 'lyre, He'd' eard men sing by land an 'sea; An' what he thought he might require, 'e went and took, the same as me.
Kipling, The Poet of Empire
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There were three sorts of stringed instruments, the lyre, the cithara (or zithern), and the harp.
Outline of Universal History
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By the time we've finished considering what it takes for the male Gelada baboon to attract a mate (a lot) -- or, for that matter, what is required of the male moth, Capuchin monkey, lyrebird or any of the other sexual suitors on display here -- no one will be thinking about what any of it means for human sexual enterprise.
Calls of the Wild
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It is probable that Fortunatus was here alluding to different varieties of the same plucked string instrument, essentially a lyre.
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Tlie plior - niinx, or large lyre, dedicated to Apollo, and plaj-ed upon with an ivory instrument, called plectrum, seems, from certain very intricate and minute parts always recurring in its repre - sentations, to have been a very complicated structure.
Costume of the ancients
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It is impossible to fault the engineering on L'Oiseau-Lyre's disc of Bach works for harpsichord played by Christophe Rousset.
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O pastoral pipes, no longer sing of Daphnis on the mountains, to pleasure Pan the lord of the goats; neither do you, O lyre interpretess of Phoebus, any more chant Hyacinthus chapleted with maiden laurel; for time was when Daphnis was delightful to the mountain-nymphs, and Hyacinthus to thee; but now let Dion hold the sceptre of Desire.
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
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Camera traps, said Lyren, are widely used in carnivore research because they help document the behavior and distribution of these more elusive, often-nocturnal animals … This camera trap is on the former El Toro Marine Base, an area that burned last week in the Orange County Santiago Fire.
Images: USGS Cameras Capture Dramatic Wildfire-Wildlife Images « ResourceShelf
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Irving Weiss is still putting the ox back into the aleph in word for/word, the lyre, hot metal, and other sources of vispo shaking and making.
Vitro Nasu » 2009 » March
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Song birds in the mating season seem to sing endlessly, and some birds, such as parrots or lyre birds, can even imitate human speech almost to perfection.
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This locality is also the site from which Lyreidus hookeri was collected.
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At the symposium, women danced and sang and performed on the double-reeded aulos (like an oboe or shawm), or lyre, having been hired, sometimes, on the street.
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Once home, I did something I rarely do: I put all my flyreels on my workbench, took them apart, and cleaned and lubed them.
Gear Review: Ardent Reel Cleaning Kit
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His son, Orpheus, took over such skill from the father that his lyre moved man and animals alike.
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Down the middle of the scene ran that wonderful river, which is always rippling with the same regular waves; and always bearing onward the same capsizable galleys, with the same vermilion and blue revelers striking lyres on the deck.
Hide and Seek
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At 3 or 4 they might move on to playing the kantele, a simple five-stringed instrument like a lyre.
Times, Sunday Times
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They all construct mounds of earth or vegetation either for display - as does the super lyrebird - or as an incubator for eggs, as do the mallee fowl and the brush turkey.
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[364-20] A poet or musician is said to sing, and the lyre is the instrument with which the ancients accompanied their songs.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
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This double album is a celebration of the lyre, centuries old, and traditionally the favourite instrument of the Sudan.
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Societies were founded, cities built, and countries cultivated by Orpheus and Amphion, and men of analogous fame, who wielded at will this mythic power, and made all the susceptibilities of nature "sequacious of the lyre.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
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Actually, today Lyrebird was ravenous and wanted to be able to eat without worrying about delicate dagging and fragile lace.
The Eagle And The Nightingale
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The barbiton, however, although it underwent many changes, retained until the end the characteristics of the instruments of the Greek lyre whose strings were plucked, whereas the rebab was sounded by means of the bow at the time of its introduction into Europe.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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_Aristotle_ predicted, long ago, that “when the shuttle would move of itself, and plectra of themselves strike the lyre, we should need no more slaves.”
System der volkswirthschaft. English
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It is a superb piece, made of mahogany and rosewood and inlaid with ebony spikes to the corners, raised on three lyre supports, each with splayed legs and brass lion-paw feet.
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His distinctive voice resonates like polished grit over a combination of searing strings, Hawaiian lap steels, mellotrons and even enchanted lyres.
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-- Felicia Hemans, her lyre musically blending the song of sounding streams with the spontaneous melody of the "feathered choir" composing an epicedium to the memory of departed days, and proving her glorious claims to the poetic character, "creation's heir.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829
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There are models of the first musical instrument that originated in Africa, the Pan flute, and the lyre, a string instrument which is said to have been used by the Spanish in 2,600 BC.
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Other species include the well-known gang-gang cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum, glossy black cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami, superb lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae, crimson rosella Platycercus elegans, kookaburra Dacelo gigas, and satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus.
Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
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That of the kithara ie. the classical lyre is an interesting case.
The kithara
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On the wall of the megaron itself is the famous scene showing the lyre-player, bull, and individuals seated on campstools on either side of a three-legged table.
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In Ireland, however, images of harps show quadrangular instruments, possibly lyres.
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Your readers haveprobablyread aboutheroes with any given positive trait, particularly if the trait is commonly associated with a protagonist in your type of book.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » 2009 » November » 03
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Harris quickly catapults the reader into a world of striking authenticity with an armchair tour of Pompeii as it looked almost 2,000 years ago, including an aristocrat's sumptuous townhouse (the House of the Citharist, named after its statue of a lyre-playing Apollo), a lavishly designed new public baths facility (the Central Baths, uncompleted at the time of the eruption), and a dank two-story lupanar (the largest of at least nine brothels in Pompeii).
Love Among the Ruins
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Beside the armor, half hidden in the shadows, lie a wineskin, a lyre, books, and a mask.
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There has been some erosion by wind and intense fires, and the superb lyrebird while excavating for food or building nest-mounds could have had some impact on erosion over time since they may turnover an average of 63 tonnes of debris per hectare per year.
Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
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In the middle, on a raised platform, Apollo plucked at his kithara, a seven-stringed lyre, while Dionysus blew on his double-reeded aulos.
PERSEPHONE THE PHONY
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Awake, harp and lyre; I will awaken the dawn!
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In a way it was a cross between a lyre, violin and a guitar.
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As in the Gustavian era, they were typically crowned by a rope-tied cresting or sometimes by a lyre.
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A youthful poet I could recall, who, with a kind of exulting indignation, thought he had discovered a celebrated brother of the lyre appropriating his ewe lamb in a flagrant plagiarism.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
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She picked the lyre up and strummed the strings thoughtfully.
HARSHINI
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Birds seen at lower elevations in the Alps include the superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) and the gang gang cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum).
Australian Alps montane grasslands