lute's

'Tis for no crowns of dancers fair that thou dost toss thy youthful curls to the breeze, singing the while to the lute's soft breath

The Phoenissae 2008

'Tis for no crowns of dancers fair that thou dost toss thy youthful curls to the breeze, singing the while to the lute's soft breath

The Phoenissae 2008

Covering his confusion as best he could, Kevin took a long, careful time tuning the lute's strings.

The Chaos Gate Lackey, Mercedes 1994

Oh, I don't think so, Kevin thought, and switched back to his first threat-song, adding this time (since he'd had a chance to work on it in his head a bit) some downright vicious verses graphically detailing the endless agonies waiting for any Dark Elf foolish enough to so much as brush the lute's strings, improvising as he went along everything from slow corruption to instant incineration.

The Chaos Gate Lackey, Mercedes 1994

The grip, and the action, for instance; it was noticably harder to hold down the lute's strings than the fiddle's.

The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992

For who ever heard of a Yuwarájá, [10] destined to sit upon the throne when I have entered the fire, neglecting all his duties for the sake of a lute's strings?

The Substance of a Dream F. W. Bain

And what a fool he must be, to care for nothing in the three worlds but a lute's strings!

The Substance of a Dream F. W. Bain

'Tis I, that sweep that lute's love-echoing strings,

The Garden of Boccaccio 1927

As courtier's fingers strike the lute's tense string,

The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika Arthur William Ryder 1907

'Tis I, that sweep that lute's love-echoing strings,

Poems of Coleridge Arthur Symons 1905