harper

Example Sentences

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They introduced me to dragons and dragonriders, wizards casting spells with words, ships with eyes and starships with voices, harpers posing riddles or playing instruments of bone, fairy tales turned upside down and inside out .

From The Verge

She was the lovely, golden-haired harper who had tried for her talent and failed.

From Literature

When they became international stars in the 1970s, the group hired a harper named Derek Bell to play the old O’Carolan tunes, which as a result became part of every Irish band’s repertoire.

From Washington Post

Only one man in the kingdom seemed cast down: the man who’d been Hrothgar’s harper before the blind man came to make his bid.

From Literature

The harper government s threatening to pass legislation that will eviscerate the rights and freedoms of ordinary Canadians.

From New York Times