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harp upon

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harp on
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Some sense of the grimly-ludicrous moved me to a fretful laugh, as I replied, “I have looked over it. In Heaven’s name, don’t harp upon it!”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

They disembarked and formed a long procession, Kothner going ahead bearing the banner, which had the portrait of King David and his harp upon it.

From Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces by Bacon, Mary Schell Hoke

The great idea to harp upon is Union.

From Name and Fame A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline

Why harp upon these half brothers, whom I never knew since they were infants, and scarcely then, for my early home was truly at a boarding school.

From Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House by Keckley, Elizabeth

Hush! hush! why harp upon the horrors that happened so many years ago?

From Tried for Her Life A Sequel to "Cruel As the Grave" by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte




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