make melody

Example Sentences

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If there be a human talent, let it get into the tongue, and make melody with that organ.

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Carlyle, Thomas

But no concert is complete without singing, and if Jesus plays, must not Céline make melody with her voice?

From The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse by Taylor, Thomas N. (Thomas Nimmo)

We live in vocal times, when small birds make melody on every bough.

From In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays by Birrell, Augustine

I can't croak a note and my fingers never would make melody if I tried till I were a hundred.

From Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge by Ginther, Pemberton

When in thy mother's womb thou west When its birds in the lake make melody vi.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir