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

At this meeting every speaker for awhile seemed as if he had hung his harp upon the willow; and it was one of the gloomiest meetings I ever attended.

From The Way to God and How to Find It by Moody, Dwight Lyman

And when once found, he would harp upon it, ringing all possible changes, keeping it insistently, mercilessly before the public.

From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber

Ben, you harp upon this money of Marmaduke's; but let me tell you that I don't know what I should have done without it.

From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry

You’ll never see him again; why harp upon a broken string?

From From Veldt Camp Fires by Bryden, H.A.