Nevertheless, I was so alarmed that my hand froze on the lute strings and the song died in my throat.

The woman's scream hit crescendo and failed, as if the voice had broken like an overtightened lute string.

He began to retune one of the lute strings, picking at it in a finicky fashion.

Damiano's patience snapped like a lute string, and he turned on his neel.

Seems like the instant the Swarm tried t' find a target here, ev'ry one of his lute strings snapped.

Farrell followed the track of broken brambles, letting the lute strings sound loudly, so Julie would know who it was.

Magnus stepped in through the door, tense as a lute string.

Pleasure zinged through her like the echo of a plucked lute string.

The lute string snapped, whipping across Kevin's hand.

She herself felt oddly light- headed, as though she'd been bled; her body vibrated like a lute string.