lute-string

However she said, ‘I cannot smite lute-string or sing sundry airs I was wont to sing whilst my lord is with us.’

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Always drawn between us was a tight-wound lute-string that never snapped, yet never slackened; and, brushed or breathed upon, filled the air between with its secret sound.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

The strings were white lute-string and the flowers in front of the flaring rim were small and dainty looking.

Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Various

Only this time I will not use a lute-string, but crush out his soul with my bare hands.

The Substance of a Dream F. W. Bain

Her bonnet was flat with roses at the sides and a cape of blue lute-string.

Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Various

Whenever Frantz came down from his brother's closet, old Sigismond was sure to be watching for him, and would walk a few steps with him in his long, lute-string sleeves, quill and knife in hand.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

And I seized her in the grip of death, and tore from my arm the lute-string that was wound about my wrist.

The Substance of a Dream F. W. Bain

Touch'd like a lute-string, -- and the sons of God

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various

Rose Brentwood was looking her very prettiest in a rose-sprigged delaine and her wavy dark hair in a beaded net tied round with a rose-colored lute-string ribbon.

Marcia Schuyler Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

The once poor injured lady had been attired in canary-colored lute-string, and an ostrich plume remarkable for its enormity while she, the libeled one, had been becomingly arrayed in blue bombazine, and of any plumage imported from Araby the blest, was altogether innocent.

International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 Various