wind-harp

She was tall, consumptive, and pale as thistledown, a flock-haired pre-Raphaelite stunner, and she had a small wind-harp which played tunes to itself by swinging in the boughs other apple trees.

Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

So that she sat now in tense, quivering suspense, waiting, fearing, longing, dreading, through this strange, long silence; filled only by the sighing of the wind-harp and the crackling of the fire.

Round Anvil Rock A Romance Nancy Huston Banks

She swept her white fingers over the strings like some fairy playing with a wind-harp.

The Motor Girls Through New England or, Held by the Gypsies Margaret Penrose

Yer as full o 'music as a wind-harp in a tornado.'

The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

There is neither peace nor resignation in it, but the very exhaustion of raving sorrow that heeds neither God nor man, but cries out, with the soulless agony of a wind-harp, its refusal to be comforted.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

There was a quivering silence, filled only with the sighing of the wind-harp.

Round Anvil Rock A Romance Nancy Huston Banks

That indescribable mixture of ease and deference, guided by refined tact, which shows the practised, high-bred man of the world, made its impression on her immediately, as the breeze on the chords of a wind-harp.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 Various

Had he bungled in giving her a garment where De Courtenay had played on a wind-harp in giving her a little red flower?

The Maid of the Whispering Hills

She was now engaged in carrying the threads of fine silk floss, which were to form the strings of this simple wind-harp, from one piece of wood to the other.

Round Anvil Rock A Romance Nancy Huston Banks

The look of them cut to his very soul, quick and sensitive from the working of the great change, made ready as a wind-harp by the silent days of dreams, the nights of visions.

The Maid of the Whispering Hills