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  • Lyric comes from the Greek word lura, a lyre, and all lyric poetry was at one time meant to be sung.

    English Literature for Boys and Girls

  • I have no facts to challenge a Minoan *lura 'lyre' as of yet and I think it's reasonable.

    The kithara 2010

  • One of these resembles a lyre, and its value indeed seems to be "RU" *lura?

    A Mediterranean flute wanderword 2010

  • Of that exquisite sympathy with the movement of the mind, with every swifter or slower pulse of passion, which proves it another species from prose, the very [Greek: aphroditae kai lura] of speech, and not merely a higher one, he wanted the fineness of sense to conceive.

    Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855

  • Fl - ahhar Bormla se tiehu lura dak li jixraqilha.

    timesofmalta.com 2010

  • Fl - ahhar Bormla se tiehu lura dak li jixraqilha.

    timesofmalta.com 2010

  • Nispera li ma kien hemm hadd, il-bini jerga jitla 'imma l-hajjiet ma jigu lura qatt ....

    timesofmalta.com 2010

  • Jekk hemm bzonn immorru lura ghal \zmien l-inkwizizzjoni, immorru; imma s-sur

    timesofmalta.com 2010

  • Nispera li ma kien hemm hadd, il-bini jerga jitla 'imma l-hajjiet ma jigu lura qatt ....

    timesofmalta.com 2010

  • Fl - ahhar Bormla se tiehu lura dak li jixraqilha.

    timesofmalta.com 2010

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