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To the innocent, who had never seen it before, it seemed discorded and inconsequent, bizarre and paradoxical like the frantic darting of the weightless bugs which run on the surface of stagnant pools.

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And on her side gentle thoughts and simple pleasures were odious to Mrs. Becky; they discorded with her; she hated people for liking them; she spurned children and children-lovers.

Vanity Fair 2006

A letter to his wife in 1847 tells of a visit to the Brights at Rochdale; how 'John and I discorded in our views not a little', and how 'I shook peaceable Brightdom as with

Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

Nay, the monster had a certain key of style, or want of style, so that certain milder passages, which I sought to introduce, discorded horribly and impoverished, if that were possible, the general effect.

The Wrecker 1898

I have shifted and shifted the notes and considered and re-considered them under different aspects, taking hints from the delicate chameleon changes of significance that came over them as they harmonised or discorded with their new surroundings.

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler 1868

And on her side gentle thoughts and simple pleasures were odious to Mrs. Becky; they discorded with her; she hated people for liking them; she spurned children and children-lovers.

Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

'They discorded' indicates that two disputants approached without quite reaching a serious quarrel.

Marmion Walter Scott 1801

– so they say the measure means less than the horrendous reality that these were once a biodiversity of living trees discorded innocence it is which bears the name but odium clings perversely to the deciders of need & fate the symmetry

Archive 2008-12-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

– so they say the measure means less than the horrendous reality that these were once a biodiversity of living trees discorded innocence it is which bears the name but odium clings perversely to the deciders of need & fate the symmetry

Cord Of Wood Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

All was quietly ended by the curate; and Don Fernando paid the whole sum, although the judge had also most liberally offered to do it; and all of them remained afterwards in such quietness and peace, as the inn did no longer resemble the discorded camp of Agramante, as Don Quixote termed it, but rather enjoyed the very peace and tranquillity of the Emperor Octavian’s time; for all which the common opinion was, that thanks were justly due to the sincere proceeding and great eloquence of master curate, and to the incomparable liberality and goodness of Don Fernando.

The Fourth Book. XIX. In Which Is Finished the Notable Adventure of the Troopers, and the Great Ferocity of Our Knight, Don Quixote, and How He Was Enchanted 1909