Strings

Examples

• They cut his bed-strings. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Of such melodious strings is Miss Pleasant Riderhood formed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• There were light boxes on shelves in the counting-house, and strings of mock beads hanging up. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Far down the lake were fantastic pale strings of colour, like beads of wan fire, green and red and yellow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• All these strings intertwining made Pancks a very cable of anchorage that night. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• A song played on tuning forks instead of on strings would be lifeless and unsatisfying because of the absence of overtones. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• To one pair of strings there were glued, back to back, two sheets of paper, which, when folded over, formed the flaps of the portfolio. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Then, after fourteen or fifteen centuries, we find the harp, both in a horizontal and an upright position, with its strings played upon by keys. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The strings were tied; she turned from him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• When they came within the influence of Sotherton associations, it was better for Miss Bertram, who might be said to have two strings to her bow. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Another little book or two were lying near, and a common basket of common fruit, and another basket full of strings of beads and tinsel scraps. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Her chin, which was what is called a double chin, was so fat that it entirely swallowed up the strings of her bonnet, bow and all. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• When the strings are tightened, the pitch rises; when the strings are loosened, the pitch falls. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I have brought little George some strings to mend his fiddle with and, if you will give it me, I will string it for him. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The hammer connected to a key strikes four or more strings instead of one, and hence produces a greater volume of tone. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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