The great harp recognized its master's voice, and leaped from the wall. Whirling through the hall, sweeping aside and killing the men who got in its way, it sprang to its master's hand. And the Dagda took his harp and swept his hand across the strings in three great, solemn chords. The harp answered with the magic Music of Tears. As the wailing harmony smote upon the air, the women of the Fomorians bowed their heads and wept bitterly, the strong men turned their faces aside, and the little children sobbed.英文原著 · 《How To Tell Stories To Children》
"All Ireland--it is a harp! We know what Scotland is. John," he exclaimed, suddenly turning toward the dark figure lying just inside the shadow, "you are a discord of the bagpipe and the harp: there's the trouble with you. Sometimes I can hear the harp alone in you, and then I like you; but when the bagpipe begins, you are worse than a big bumblebee with a bad cold."英文原著 · 《The Choir Invisible》
COBHAM. Harpoole, Harpoole, I hear a marvelous noise about
the house: God warrant us, I fear we are pursued:
what, Harpoole.英文原著 · 《The Life of Sir John Oldcastle》
The Dagda, with two or three of his warriors, had followed hard on their track. And while they were in the midst of their banqueting, the door was suddenly burst open, and the Dagda stood there, with his men. Some of the Fomorians sprang to their feet, but before any of them could grasp a weapon, the Dagda called out to his harp on the wall, "Come to me, O my harp!"英文原著 · 《How To Tell Stories To Children》
flute-players or harp- players or singers to the harp or rhapsodes who英文原著 · 《Ion》
Henry Mills Alden, for nearly forty years editor of Harper's Magazine, arrived at his seventieth birthday on November 11th that year, and Harper & Brothers had arranged to give him a great dinner in the offices of Franklin Square, where, for half a century, he had been an active force. Mark Twain, threatened with a cold, and knowing the dinner would be strenuous, did not feel able to attend, so wrote a letter which, if found suitable, could be read at the gathering.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 5》
You'll gonna find one little imperfection and harp on it forever like you do with my boyfriend?美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
Again, and... I hate to keep harping on this, we wouldn't be here if someone hadn't dumped my medicine.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
Preferably one with a hide like a rhino and the fighting spirit of a baby harp seal.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》