Which preposition to use with lyre

of Occurrences 22%

Was not Phoebus, though victor over huge Python and creator of the celestial strains that sound from the lyres of Parnassus, by him made the thrall, now of Daphne, now of Clymene, and again of Leucothea, and of many others withal?

in Occurrences 7%

He strikes the lyre in a 'magic tone'; the very 'prelude' of this was enough to command silent expectation.

to Occurrences 6%

Do not smile at the thought of Vulcan's callused fingers touching the chords of the lyre to delicate music.

for Occurrences 5%

Why, we took your lyre for harp, So it shrilled us forth F sharp!"

with Occurrences 4%

Proud lyres with thine immortal praises glow, Smitten by bards elate with victory: Lo, thine own Cavalcante, stormfully Lightning, still strikes the fortress of the foe!

on Occurrences 1%

Jupiter gave him a pair of swans and a golden chariot, which bore him over sea and land wherever he wanted to go; and he gave him a lyre on which he played the sweetest music that was ever heard, and a silver bow with sharp arrows which never missed the mark.

through Occurrences 1%

Really the lyre was merely a sounding-box, and the vibrations of the music were conveyed from instruments, played in the next room, to the lyre through a steel rod.

from Occurrences 1%

To twang the lyre from time to time, or knock a few mellow plunks out of the harp, was regarded with much favor by the Anglo-Saxons, who were much given to feasting and merriment.

against Occurrences 1%

" S. "And in this case also, be punished, not by any anger of the lyre against you, but by those very necessary laws of music which you had mistaken?" A.

Which preposition to use with  lyre