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The five calves were all bawling in a chorus of complaint against their forced separation from their mothers, and the deeper, throaty tones of the cow mingled not inharmoniously with the sound.

From Lonesome Land by Bower, B. M.

The company assented, and the stranger, a person of commonplace appearance, was introduced, ate his chop in silence, and then fell asleep, snoring so loudly and inharmoniously that conversation was disturbed.

From The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings by Lemon, Mark

He warbled the refrain of the Colonel's song, not inharmoniously; and saluted its pathetic conclusion with a subdued hiccup and a plentiful effusion of tears.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace

And so, my dear young friend, I would say to you: Open up your heart; sing as you skate; sing inharmoniously if you will, but sing!

From Love Conquers All by Williams, Gluyas

I found that I was inharmoniously developed in many points of my frame,—was perilously weak in the sides, between the shoulders, and at the back of the head.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 by Various