A fine band enlivened the occasion with its sweetest strains.

So did the sweet strains of fiddle music.

To hear the sad sweet strains of a harp, denotes the sad ending to what seems a pleasing and profitable enterprise.

"When thou dost think of nothing but its sweet strains, all else doth ebb from thy mind."

Then she drifted into a still sweeter strain.

Indeed he had several times passed by the walls of his mansion, and had heard the sweet strains of music emanating from within.

Martin slid his arms around her and they danced without speaking, swaying together to the sweet, sad strains of 'Island Woman'.

The music was played in the sweetest strains--the curtain rose and the pageant began.

Sarah's soul was hardly in harmony with those sweet strains.

As she settled uncomfortably into the corner, the sweet tinny strains of the barrel-organ floated through the open door.