many-stringed

And as we reject varieties of harmony, we shall also reject the many-stringed, variously-shaped instruments which give utterance to them, and in particular the flute, which is more complex than any of them.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

Later experience enabled men to judge what was or was not really conducive to virtue, and they rejected both the flute and several other old-fashioned instruments, such as the Lydian harp, the many-stringed lyre, the ‘heptagon,’

Politics Aristotle 2002

They gathered around the fire, pulling up chairs, and then three pulled out instruments — one a wooden flute; one a deep-voiced dark-wood cousin of the recorders Molly knew; and one a small, fat-necked, many-stringed cross between a lute and a guitar.

Memory of Fire Lisle, Holly 2002

Jim led them to a table near the back of the large room. the diners were Alban, but there was a sprinkling of other A stick-thin Pleenarch with bright purple gills sat on a stage and gently played a many-stringed instrument that like an antique bicycle.

In Alien Hands Shatner, William 1997

His all-responding soul was like a many-stringed instrument, and all the universe playing on it, extracted the most marvelous songs.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

His all-responding soul was like a many-stringed instrument, and all the universe playing on it, extracted the most marvelous songs.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

His all-responding soul was like a many-stringed instrument, and all the universe playing on it, extracted the most marvelous songs.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

Perched on rooftops, musicians gave them plangent marches out of primitive instruments, drums, horns, gongs, bagpipes, many-stringed guitars.

The Day of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973

Perched on rooftops, musicians gave them plangent marches out of primitive instruments, drums, horns, gongs, bagpipes, many-stringed guitars.

The Day Of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973

Pindar, in his red cap, with his many-stringed harp in his hand, was there; and all Helicon glowed like molten lead in his vindictive heart when he looked at the miserable pair.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various