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Harper   /hˈɑrpər/   Listen
noun
Harper  n.  
1.
A player on the harp; a minstrel. "The murmuring pines and the hemlocks... Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms."
2.
A brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp, formerly current in Ireland.





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"Harper" Quotes from Famous Books



... very old and dear friend of hers whom she particularly disliked and disapproved of, Lady Virginia Harper. Lady Virginia was a very tall, thin, faded blonde, still full of shadowy vitality, who wore a flaxen transformation so obviously artificial that not the most censorious person by the utmost stretch of malice could assume it ...
— The Twelfth Hour • Ada Leverson
... war is too well known to need to be more than briefly referred to. He was made colonel of volunteers, and sent to Harper's Ferry in May, 1861, and shortly after promoted to a brigade. He accompanied Joe Johnston in his retreat down the valley. At Bull Run, where his brigade was one of the earliest in the war to use the bayonet, he earned ...
— The Campaign of Chancellorsville • Theodore A. Dodge
... and Mrs. Weston remembered, as she approached Harper's, that she had one or two purchases to make. Fearing it might be late on their return, she proposed getting out ...
— Aunt Phillis's Cabin - Or, Southern Life As It Is • Mary H. Eastman
... Harper published in book form under the title Social Pictorial Satire a series of articles which du Maurier had written in Harper's Magazine, and which had originally formed the substance of lectures which he had delivered in the prominent towns of England. He speaks first of his great admiration ...
— George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians • T. Martin Wood
... a woman, and I think it should be attended to. I want you to telephone to Mr. George McNaughton, at Bristol, and ask if Mr. or Miss Lindsay Lee is a friend of theirs, and say that, if so, he—or she—is all right, and is spending the night here. Then, in that case, send Harper to the station with the brougham, and say that I beg to have the honor of looking after Mrs. McNaughton's friend for the night. And you'll see that whoever it is is made ...
— The Militants - Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews


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