What is "harpstrings"

Usage examples of "harpstrings".

And if they heard in their comparatively clumsy music, even for an instant, the magic of harpstrings, and if that gave them joy, then she was satisfied.

At first, she wondered what it would be like to play for such a party-minded audience, and then she considered what she might do against Orfide, who, immersed in the intricacies of a spell woven of twilight and harpstrings, could not but be unsettled by the gleeful, casual arrogance of a rock performer.

And Christa, with her bloody harpstrings and her instinctive likening of music and magic and sex, was infinitely closer to the truth than was he.

And what had Judith said to herself as she struggled with harpstrings in the pitch darkness of the practice cells?

She had loved them as her children, had tried to share with them the joy and fire that she found not only among harpstrings, but in all music, and they had rejected her.

Accustomed only to the soft whisper of Sidh voices and chime of harpstrings, he is unprepared for this onslaught.

There is desperation in his playing now, and he claws at the harpstrings, his nails cracked and broken, his fingers bleeding.

She ran her hand across the harpstrings, the sweep of sound a period to the discussion.

The voice held that strange music that all elves voices shared, a hint of harpstrings or bells.

September, when she had half convinced herself that now, with the beginning of the regular school session, she would actually get her fingers on harpstrings and begin to learn some of the actual Hands of Grace material, Terry presented her with an even more extensive project.

Not until the harpstrings finally fell into complete silence did she sigh and open her eyes.

She was here because of an urge that was all but physical, an urge to put her fingers to harpstrings and make music for someone who needed it, an urge that was not born of pride or a desire for fame, but which grew straight out of her heart like a tree whose roots lay in the primal desire to bring forth, whose branches waved in the honest air of grace.

Simkin interrupted, springing into the air so suddenly that his foot caught in the harpstrings, causing a most ungodly twanging.

Paks heard the chime of harpstrings from somewhere, and looked around.