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Meanwhile, a couple of Servian musicians began, to the accompaniment of a zithern, to sing one of their sad, monotonous, heroic songs.
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He had tried to write something, but had stuck while trying to think of a rhyme for zithern.
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If now and then thou shouldst hear the string of a lute or a zithern, Mine is the hand, dear country, and mine is the voice that is singing.
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"Oh, they sing, and play on unusual instruments,—zitherns and lutes——" "That doesn't sound so awfully wonderful."
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In the sunny window of his musical store, surrounded by zitherns, auto-harps, dulcimers, psalteries, sackbuts, and other instrument's of melody, the advent of Nelson produced the effect of a sudden and unexpected discord.
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