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Example sentences for "discords"

Lexicographically close words:
discordances; discordant; discordantly; discorde; discordia; discouer; discouered; discouerie; discoueries; discouering
  1. The music of creation is full of discords as yet altogether unresolved.

  2. He began to comprehend the discords he had flung into her life; she was no longer a riddle to him; her confessions portrayed her soul in warm and delicate colouring--colouring pathetic and heroically pure.

  3. Her soul as yet was no frayed and listless lute, thrummed into discords by the bony hand of care.

  4. All the strong discords of the past rushed clamorous to her brain; her consecrated dreams were as so many angels startled by the assaults of hell.

  5. If there had been a reason in the minds of others in 1608 why it should not appear in the "True Relation," that reason did not exist for Smith at this time, when the discords and discouragements of the colony were fully known.

  6. There is internal evidence of this in the abrupt manner in which it opens, and in the absence of allusions to the discords during the voyage and on the arrival.

  7. Its great author introduces into his recital scenes and personages calculated to awaken strange discords in a mind ignorant of any greater wrong than the small sins of a well-ordered household.

  8. I deeply regretted the discords of the time, and would have had all people good friends, however diverse in political persuasion.

  9. So far as I have known, the comparisons elicited by our meetings have more and more tended to resolve imagined discords into prevailing harmony.

  10. I recall my first years of life in Boston as nearly touched by the sense of the unresolved discords which existed in its society.

  11. There is nothing to be done for God by harshness; nothing to be done by discords and gangling; nothing to be done by scolding and rebuke.

  12. It is by His Divine Spirit dwelling within us, and breathing through us, that the harsh discords of our natural lives become changed into melody of praise and the music of witness for Him.

  13. No doubt he was only a successor of the purveyor of discords who darkened my boyhood.

  14. Truly thy praises stink in our nostrils, and are as discords in our ears.

  15. The relation of the discords is sometimes vital to more than continuity, namely to rhythm (Group C.

  16. Thus there is continuity in the Louvre Ghirlandajo because equivalent, if minor, discords repeat the motif of the red mantle in two other portions of the picture.

  17. Even in his early works he shows a partiality for certain well-known discords which he gradually comes to use so often that the resolution of them becomes superfluous.

  18. He appears to be more interesting harmonically, because he keeps Chopin's discords and omits his concords, roughly speaking.

  19. You have been led into this position by a man whose sole business is to foment discords between working-men and their employers.

  20. The moment these discords cease, that moment this man loses his job and must work or starve like the rest of you.

  21. In labour of the trouble at its fount, Leads Life to an intelligible Lord The rebel discords up the sacred mount.

  22. O may her voice have power to say How soon the wrecking discords cease, When every wandering wave is gay With golden argosies of peace!

  23. This morning I could scarcely hold the bow of the violin, and its sweetest notes sounded harsh to me; I heard discords among their harmonies.

  24. Why rushed the discords in but that harmony should be prized?

  25. A great musical composer weaves in discords as a means of expression, and the same is true of a great master of metre.

  26. I have said enough about his verse, which often jars on a sensitive ear, showing a want of the nicest perception of harmonies and discords in the arrangement of the words.

  27. The color was fast returning to her cheek, and the discords of her feelings and her thoughts gradually resolving themselves into the harmonious and cheerful rhythms of bodily and mental health.

  28. The Dream Child" and the first sketch of "Discords of Devolution" were written at the same time and place, but at different desks.

  29. Kanaya is the chief man in this village, besides being the leader of the dissonant squeaks and discords which represent music at the Shinto festivals, and in some mysterious back region he compounds and sells drugs.

  30. If the Japanese have no one to talk to they croon hideous discords to themselves, and it was a relief to leave Ito behind and get away with an Aino, who was at once silent, trustworthy, and faithful.

  31. Kanaya leads the discords at the Shinto shrines; but his duties are few, and he is chiefly occupied in perpetually embellishing his house and garden.

  32. They chose Fray Geronimo de Salas, [17] not without dissensions and discords between the two parties into which they are divided.

  33. Henry profiting little by the internal discords of France.

  34. Though unity has up to now been preserved, the lack of local self-government has produced discords always more or less active.

  35. It would be strange if such discords did not lead to misery.

  36. Occasionally a fervent prayer would lift him above the jars and discords of earthly being; but even into these heavenly arcana would the misgiving of an insufficiency pursue him: he was very unhappy.

  37. These contradictions, and the psychological disorder that followed, explain the discords and struggles very soon raging around the young Emperor.


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