Crossword clues for harped
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Harp \Harp\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Harped (h[aum]rpt) p. pr. & vb. n. Harping.] [AS. hearpian. See Harp, n.]
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To play on the harp.
I heard the voice of harpers, harping with their harps.
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2. To dwell on or recur to a subject tediously or monotonously in speaking or in writing; to refer to something repeatedly or continually; -- usually with on or upon. ``Harpings upon old themes.''
--W. Irving.Harping on what I am, Not what he knew I was.
--Shak.To harp on one string, to dwell upon one subject with disagreeable or wearisome persistence. [Colloq.]
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: harp)
Usage examples of "harped".
He harped with the winds that blew from dawn until night, sometimes with only one high string, as he heard the lean, tense, wailing east wind.
So he harped alone, a strange, furred, nameless animal with no voice but one strung between his hands.
Yrth harped to me that night so that I would carry the riddle of his harping to you, wherever in the realm you were.
They held tones he had harped to in the northern wastes, and his hands yearned to match their singing.
Why, when Deth had harped to himself that long year while Morgon clung to the despair that was his life, had the High One never heard that harping?
She whispered, “Morgon said that you—that you harped while he lay half-dead in Ghisteslwchlohm’s power.