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Examples
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He had also made a harp that was said to play of itself — which it very likely did, as AEolian Harps, which are played by the wind, and are understood now, always do.
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There was never yet such a storm but it was AEolian music to a healthy and innocent ear.
Walden 2004
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Nay; I listened again and again, and I DID hear a faint and extremely distant sound of music, like that of an AEolian harp, borne upon the wind which was blowing fresh and chill from the opposite mountains.
Erewhon 2003
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Her mischievous eyes, her lips, crimson with fulness of life, were not made for such AEolian-harp sentimentalities.
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Now, as the tone grows full or sharp, 'T is whispering of the AEolian harp.
Letters and Journals 02] Morse, Samuel F B 1914
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He's just a sort of AEolian harp that sings to the temper of the wind.
Touch and Go 1907
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The thought even of good food always calmed Robert's savage breast; it blew upon him as the wind on an AEolian harp hung in the trees, evoking faint sweet sounds.
Queen Lucia 1903
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He added, presently, a great AEolian Orchestrelle, with a variety of music for his different moods.
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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He added, presently, a great AEolian Orchestrelle, with a variety of music for his different moods.
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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He strung a number of copper wires at different degrees of tension between two trees, and listened to the wind as it ranged up and down on this improvised AEolian harp.
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