harp upon
Example Sentences
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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
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He had ceased to harp upon the string of his desolation.
From Jan and Her Job by Harker, L. Allen (Lizzie Allen)
I mention about the division of the estate to you, dear Lizzie, because when it is done the papers will harp upon it.
From Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House by Keckley, Elizabeth
Smerdis Ahafid seems to harp upon his strings.
From The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems by Noe, Cotton
One of the two, with his harp upon his arm, after a prelude, proposed the subject of the dispute.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward