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  • Praise the LORD on the harp; make music for him on a ten-stringed lyre.

    Scriptures at Your Fingertips Merry Graham Rachel Bye 2005

  • A throat like a ten-stringed instrument, surmounting square shoulders that end in knobs that obtrude above unfilled hollows, is an unpleasing vision that looms up conspicuously too often in opera-box and drawing-room.

    What Dress Makes of Us Dorothy Quigley

  • One of the daughters invented the small ten-stringed harp, and the other the spinning wheel.

    The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887

  • The lyres were ten-stringed, of a square shape, and hung round the player's neck by a string or ribbon.

    The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. George Rawlinson 1857

  • The ten commandments are like a ten-stringed instrument, and we must touch every string, obey every commandment, or we cannot make sweet melody in religion.

    The Lord's Prayer 1692

  • Volunteers can assist with administrative tasks and help plan and promote events such as the annual Cuatro Festival -- billed as "the largest Puerto Rican cultural event in the Midwest region" -- where kids who've learned to play the cuatro, a small, ten-stringed Puerto Rican guitar, pair up with renowned musicians from PR and around the world.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Volunteers can assist with administrative tasks and help plan and promote events such as the annual Cuatro Festival -- billed as "the largest Puerto Rican cultural event in the Midwest region" -- where kids who've learned to play the cuatro, a small, ten-stringed Puerto Rican guitar, pair up with renowned musicians from PR and around the world.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Volunteers can assist with administrative tasks and help plan and promote events such as the annual Cuatro Festival -- billed as "the largest Puerto Rican cultural event in the Midwest region" -- where kids who've learned to play the cuatro, a small, ten-stringed Puerto Rican guitar, pair up with renowned musicians from PR and around the world.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Volunteers can assist with administrative tasks and help plan and promote events such as the annual Cuatro Festival -- billed as "the largest Puerto Rican cultural event in the Midwest region" -- where kids who've learned to play the cuatro, a small, ten-stringed Puerto Rican guitar, pair up with renowned musicians from PR and around the world.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Psalm 144: 9, I will sing a new song to you, O God; upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to you,

    CAMPONTHIS 2009

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