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I believed in spiritism, and would be accordantly sympathetic with the author's ideas....

From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Kemp, Harry

He was about as accordantly coupled with Dr. Middleton in discourse as a drum duetting with a bass-viol; and when he struck in he received correction from the paedagogue-instrument.

From The Egoist by Meredith, George

A work of art is the material bodying forth of the artist's sense of a meaning in life which unfolds itself to him as harmony and to which his spirit responds accordantly.

From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Noyes, Carleton Eldredge

Thou joinest and diffusest through the whole, Linking accordantly its several parts, A soul of threefold nature, moving all.

From The Consolation of Philosophy by James, H. R. (Henry Rosher)

But when closer her step grew timid, her tread convulsed itself more and more accordantly with the time of the melody, till she very nearly danced along. 

From Life's Little Ironies by Hardy, Thomas