19 Verbs to Use for the Word lutes

You should hear them play the lute!

I ne'er again Will touch the lute nor ease my heart from pain With pipes of Afric.

And presently, quite close to us, as if but on the other side of the wall, one struck a lute and began to sing a Moorish song; when she had concluded her melancholy air a voice, as if saddened by the melody, sighed: "Ah me!

Does Heaven indeed speak?" Once Ju Pi desired an interview with Confucius, from which the latter excused himself on the score of ill-health; but while the attendant was passing out through the doorway with the message he took his lute and sang, in such a way as to let him hear him.

They haunt meher lutes and her forests; No beauty on earth I see But shadowed with that dreams recalls Her loveliness to me: Still eyes look coldly upon me, Cold voices whisper and say "He is crazed with the spell of far Arabia, They have stolen his wits away.

Sweet is the music of Arabia In my heart, when out of dreams I still in the thin clear mirk of dawn Descry her gliding streams; Hear her strange lutes on the green banks

King Karnos: She means the lute that is heard by those about to die.

John Copeland, standing by the seaward window, had picked up a lute and was fingering the instrument half-idly.

So, as I cannot sing like thee, I'll break my lute, and live without it.

I then ascended a little sand hill; from whence, looking around, I saw on every side the before mentioned lutes, which seemed to me to sound of themselves in a most miraculous manner, without the aid of any musicians.

Which their opinion many do confirm, Because Testado signifies a lute.

Sound, sound the lutes, or great or small.

Weave then this woof too presently, sweet my lute, a strain with Lydian harmony that shall be dear to Oinone, and to Cyprus, where Teukros, son of Telamon, holdeth rule in a new land.

"The affair is of the suddenest," Alain observed, and he now swung the lute behind him.

The plaudits followed him loud and free As he tossed the lute to Marcadee, Who caught it featly, bowing low, And said, "My liege, I may not know To improvise; but I'll give a song, The song of our camp,we've known it long.

Miguel had procured a lute from the innkeeper, and he strummed idly as these two debated together of great matters; about them was an immeasurable twilight, moonless, but tempered by many stars, and everywhere they could hear an agreeable whispering of leaves.

The breezes brought dejected lutes, And bathed them in the glee; The East put out a single flag, And signed the fete away.

[Sets the Ladder to her Window, fetches his Lute and goes up the ladder.

This had been at Dover, about vespers, in the starved and tiny garden overlooking the English Channel, upon which her apartments faced; and the priest had fingered his lute for an appreciable while before he sang, more harshly than was his custom.

19 Verbs to Use for the Word  lutes