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
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
He had ceased to harp upon the string of his desolation.
From Jan and Her Job by Harker, L. Allen (Lizzie Allen)
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
Why harp upon these half brothers, whom I never knew since they were infants, and scarcely then, for my early home was truly at a boarding school.
From Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House by Keckley, Elizabeth
