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
My dear Adalbert, I beg of you, do not again harp upon the same old string about her being my own flesh and blood!
From The Wish A Novel by Sudermann, Hermann
I harp upon that date," said Carlton, "because, as I have already remarked, it seems to have been a fatal date for me.
From Peccavi by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
And that is the point which I want to harp upon, the necessity of keeping the goal in view and of not wandering off into side issues.
From Three Things by Glyn, Elinor
Why will you always harp upon that string, Lilian?
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram
