concords
- plural of concord.
Example Sentences
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Ms. Sollek’s dusky low range mingled with Mr. Brenner’s clarion high notes in piquant concords.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2010
The vocative case is known by calling, or speaking to; as, O magister—O master; an exclamation which is frequently the consequence of shirking out, making false concords or quantities, obstreperous conduct in school, &c.
From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by Leech, John
The concords, termed in Greek συμφωνἱαι, of which human modulation will naturally admit, are six in number: the fourth, the fifth, the octave, the octave and fourth, the octave and fifth, and the double octave.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
But English has distanced the field, and was alone in at the death of the old concords, which moistened our childhood's dry Latin with tears.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John
Her face was cheerful, but gradually she became grave, and, turning her large eyes toward heaven, her concords were slow and solemn.
From Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by Jordan, F.
