chord

• For to all of us,--yes, to the coldest and worst,--there are such memories of young people, of children, and I pity him who, remembering them, does not feel the touch of a vanished hand and hear a chord which is still. —  The Gypsies
• When Ulysses first bends and strings his bow, the vibration of the chord is shrill, "like the note of a swallow." —  Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
• This chord is constructed on the 5th of the diatonic as a fundamental note, and consists of the 5th, 7th, and 9th, or returning the 9th an octave, the 5th, 7th, and 2d. —  The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
• But the master-chord was silent_. —  Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author
• The word harmony may therefore be applied to any group of tones of different pitches sounded as a chord, although specifically we usually refer to a succession of such chords when we speak of "harmony." —  Music Notation and Terminology

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