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
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
