make melody

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"You must marry some one who can sing with you," said he to Edward; "it would be a pity to have a wife who could not make melody along with you."

From Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. by Auerbach, Berthold

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

From Jane Journeys On by Mitchell, Ruth Comfort

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

Then, when Heaven and earth and sea Are joining in Love's jubilee; While morning stars make melody, Shall man be mute alone?

From A Celtic Psaltery by Graves, Alfred Perceval

Would it were possible to affix a wind-instrument to the nose, and thus make melody of a snore, so that a sleeping lover might serenade his mistress or a congregation snore a psalm-tune!

From Sketches from Memory (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel