lyres

The body, borne by two enormous scarlet wheels, was covered with groups of Cupids, and with Anacreontic attributes, such as lyres, tambourines, Pandaean pipes, cooing doves, and hearts pierced with arrows, executed at some remote period by a pencil more remarkable for audacity than correctness of design.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

Mr. Phyfe had an affection for lyres, harps and mahogany.

A Guitar Sound From Mexico, via Dublin and Now, Havana 2012

Hell's bells would be the most obvious instrument, but lyres are well recognised in hell.

Notes and queries: Banjos, accordions, recorders – which is the instrument from hell? Why catch-22 is far, far worse than a dilemma; The trouble with Roger 2011

There [in Babylon] we hung up our lyres on poplar trees, since our captors had demanded that we sing, and our tormentors [demanded] celebration, “Sing us one of those Zion songs!”

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

There [in Babylon] we hung up our lyres on poplar trees, since our captors had demanded that we sing, and our tormentors [demanded] celebration, “Sing us one of those Zion songs!”

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

There [in Babylon] we hung up our lyres on poplar trees, since our captors had demanded that we sing, and our tormentors [demanded] celebration, “Sing us one of those Zion songs!”

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

There [in Babylon] we hung up our lyres on poplar trees, since our captors had demanded that we sing, and our tormentors [demanded] celebration, “Sing us one of those Zion songs!”

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

The precious cargo that was Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, was carried on the Nile in a golden boat rowed with silver oars, its decks laden with the music of flutes and lyres, its sails worked by women dressed as nymphs and graces.

Lewis Lapham: Domesticated Deities: About Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It Lewis Lapham 2010

The precious cargo that was Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, was carried on the Nile in a golden boat rowed with silver oars, its decks laden with the music of flutes and lyres, its sails worked by women dressed as nymphs and graces.

Lewis Lapham: Domesticated Deities: About Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It Lewis Lapham 2010

The precious cargo that was Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, was carried on the Nile in a golden boat rowed with silver oars, its decks laden with the music of flutes and lyres, its sails worked by women dressed as nymphs and graces.

Lewis Lapham: Domesticated Deities: About Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It Lewis Lapham 2010