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Gore's brother-in-law Frank Hunger had been harping on it since the spring; he convinced the Gores' daughter Karenna and finally even Gore's wife Tipper.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had been harping on the city string again and asked me if I intended to live and die a withered beauty on a back-trail ranch.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)

For weeks past letters from G.H.Q., as also the fervent representations made by visitors over on duty or on leave from the front, had been harping upon this question.

From Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Callwell, C. E. (Charles Edward), Sir

The singularity was their being always the same, and that the honest Tarasconers had never had an inclination to change them during the long, long time they had been harping on them.

From Tartarin of Tarascon by Daudet, Alphonse