"Zither" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... launch, and then a boatload of pleasure-seekers, a solitary sculler, or a four from some rowing club. Perhaps the river was quietest of a morning or late at night. One moonlight night some people drifted down singing, and with a zither playing—it sounded very pleasantly across ...
— The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
... lightly the zither As they drift 'neath the hillsides of green, But gone from the Rhine is the palgrave, And gone is the palgravine. Play lightly, play lightly, O boatman, When the shadows of night round thee fall, For the lights have gone ...
— ZigZag Journeys in Northern Lands; - The Rhine to the Arctic • Hezekiah Butterworth
... moved over to the chest of drawers still rhythmically and with set steps, but to the phantom strain of some unheard low music. The music was running vaguely through her head all the time—wild Aeolian music—it sounded like a rude tune on a harp or zither. And surely the cymbals clashed now and again overhead; and the timbrel rang clear; and the castanets tinkled, keeping time with the measure. She stood still and listened. No, no, not a sound save the ...
— What's Bred In the Bone • Grant Allen
... order, and is usually made of birch bark. It is much used in the mountains. The langeleik, or Norwegian harp, is a long, narrow, box-like stringed instrument, something of the character of the ancient zither. It has seven strings and sound holes, but its ...
— Norwegian Life • Ethlyn T. Clough
... visitors could hear the occasional twanging of a zither, the strumming of a piano, snatches of laughter and shouting and singing, a faint vibration of voices. The whole building being of wood, it seemed to carry every sound, like a drum, but instead of increasing ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence
... the violin and I the zither—we also go to fairs. In the winter we play at cafes in large towns. Life is hard, ...
— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke |
