30 examples of untunes in sentences

They are not the work of any earthly song writer, but are born of some untuned Eolian harp played upon by uncertain breezes, that murmur the memory of tropical groves and sigh with the sadness of exile.

So we will leave this old king in the protection of this dutiful and loving child, where, by the help of sleep and medicine, she and her physicians at length succeeded in winding up the untuned and jarring senses which the cruelty of his other daughters had so violently shaken.

They untune and dissipate the brave aspirant.

If e'er from me thy loved memorial part, May shame afflict this alienated heart; Of thee forgetful if I form a song, My lyre be broken, and untuned my tongue, My griefs be doubled from thy image free, And mirth a torment, unchastised by thee!

Only he can in sorrow bear a part With untaught hand and with untuned heart.

Cease, cease, harsh tongue: untuned music, rest; Entomb thy sorrows in thy hollow breast.

The spirit of God moved on the waters' face, And made his dwelling ready, who in pain, Himself untuned, groaned for a harmony, For order and for law around his life Too tired he was to do as he had planned.

But Mine Own did also have us both to remember that there did be equal right to think that she had died Mine Own Maid in that life; for that it did be not out of reason to think that she had been void-hearted unto all men, because that she had known in her spirit that she did once to meet Her Own, and did be thereafter untuned unto all other men that ever did live.

Such luxury untunes the mind for doing and suffering.

I know it took not beeing at thy birth: thou hast been merrie, thou hast sounded hoopes, swallowed whiffes, walkt late, worn favours, seene whoresons; thou canst feele and understand, come thou hast bene a sinner, unloade, discharge, untune, confesse, is Venus dominatrix?

As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the bless'd above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky.

My long neglected lyre I'll take, And seek its echoes to awake; But it hath lain untuned so long, Scarce can I hope to frame a song.

At nine o'clock he went downstairs, tapped civilly at the door of the front parlour, and by an untuned voice was bidden enter.

He did not, as has been said of Horace, wilfully untune his harp when he commenced satirist.

A dwarf creature perched on a piano stool teased the keys of an untuned piano and drew forth adorable melody, skipping the broken notes with great agility.

Piano tuner, untune me that tune.

Piano tuner, untune me that tune.

Piano tuner, untune me that tune.

Piano tuner, untune me that tune.

Piano tuner, untune me that tune.

Piano tuner, untune me that tune.

Piano tuner, untune me that tune.

Piano tuner, untune me that tune.

As in the Instances I have given we have epitomized many of our particular Words to the Detriment of our Tongue, so on other Occasions we have drawn two Words into one, which has likewise very much untuned our Language, and clogged it with Consonants, as mayn't, can't, shd'n't, wo'n't, and the like, for may not, can not, shall not, will not, &

Vainly did the Spirit of Light within her counsel her to persevere, looking only at the end she would achieve; subtler and more penetrative to her untuned ear were the words of the fiend at her side.

30 examples of  untunes  in sentences