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

Madam seem'd to harp upon the same string.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I by Lodge, Henry Cabot

Is it not made in the paradise you harp upon, the paradise we are coming to?

From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares

What is there about Volney, please tell me, that you harp upon the name?

From The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories by Foote, Mary Hallock

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