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Usage examples of "discords".
Ah, there are no partings and meetings now that leave discords in the remembrance, no neglected birthdays, no forgotten courtesies.
Such discords, and particularly those betwixt Richard and Philip of France, created disputes and obstacles which impeded every active measure proposed by the heroic though impetuous Richard, while the ranks of the Crusaders were daily thinned, not only by the desertion of individuals, but of entire bands, headed by their respective feudal leaders, who withdrew from a contest in which they had ceased to hope for success.
I know not by what whimsical link of association the recapitulation of this insect din suggests the recollection of other discords, at least as harsh and much more troublesome.
We have then the key-note for debate: A Senate that sits on the heights Over discords, to shape and amend.
Those faceless discords, out of nature strayed, Rank of the putrefaction ere decayed, In impious singles bear the thorny wreaths: Their lives are where harmonious Pleasure breathes For couples crowned with flowers that burn in dew.
O may her voice have power to say How soon the wrecking discords cease, When every wandering wave is gay With golden argosies of peace!
In labour of the trouble at its fount, Leads Life to an intelligible Lord The rebel discords up the sacred mount.
If the gods were to glance down at this formation, it would serve them as a chart or plan of all the bloody discords that riddled the host assembled here, the Expeditionary Force, as Agamemnon liked to call it.
We knew the sea was Life, the harmonious cry The blended discords of humanity.