make melody

Example Sentences

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Sarah, never did you make melody like that, decent New Englander that you are!

From Jane Journeys On by Mitchell, Ruth Comfort

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

He may be a minstrel and make melody, you know, with some other instrument—a strange-fashioned one, peradventure, that never was seen before.

From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Stevens, Monica

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