Louis, the eleventh of the name, had succeeded to his father, Charles, in 1460, and was led from the obvious motives of national interest to feed the flames of civil discord among such dangerous neighbors by giving support to the weaker party.

Early in this year, revolutionary movements had taken place among the English on Long Island, which the governor could not suppress, and the province was rent by internal discord for several months.

These services were but ill requited by Philip, who, when he came to man's estate, fomented all the domestic discords in the royal family of England, and encouraged Henry's sons in their ungrateful and undutiful behaviour towards him.

Here, therefore, he resolved to settle, though his master and mistress lived in perpetual discord, and their house was, therefore, no comfortable habitation.

His severe edicts against heresy had also begun to accustom the nation to religious discords and hatred.

He recalled the words so carelessly uttered, "Of course not, for she was a quadroon," and they seemed to make harsh discord with the refrain of the song.

Marital discords and how to avoid them.

Lions on tigers prey, and bears on wolves: 440 Horrible discord!

It is not then so wonderful that this wise and holy woman should have faced the problems presented by the apparent discord between the truths of faith and the facts of human lifea discord which is felt in every age by the observant and thoughtful, but which in our age is a commonplace on the lips of even the most superficial.

They could influence the passions of the mind, procure the reconciliation of friends or of foes, engender mutual discord, induce mania, melancholy, or direct the force and objects of human affection.

Felicia, lying stiff and wide-eyed in the great bed above, heard the crash of the hideous discord, and shuddered.

It would have been as lovely had the eyes been blue,probably more so,but their darkness gave a touch of character, a slight discord, which made the harmony finer.

The French Canadians were firmly wedded to their old ways of life, except in so far as the new liberty enabled them to throw off irksome duties and restraints, while the new English-speaking 'colonists' were so few, and mostly so bad, that they became the cause of endless discord where harmony was essential.

Her heart was like a harp which sent out its harmonious discords in accordance with the moods of the player who touched its chords.

Eighteen hundred and ten has come, bringing with it liberty, and bloodshed, and universal discord.

For if we rudely strike the strings Whence melody should flow, A harsh, unnatural discord rings, Of bitterness and woe.

The frightful discord vibrated through my whole frame, and I turned for relief to the figure below....

If by prudence and moderation on every side the extinguishment of all the causes of external discord which have heretofore menaced our tranquillity, on terms compatible with our national rights and honor, shall be the happy result, how firm and how precious a foundation will have been laid for accelerating, maturing, and establishing the prosperity of our country.

There was no fault to be found in the appearance of the soldiers, who were mostly Sikhs and hill men of good physique; but their ludicrous style of marching, the strange outlandish uniform of the men, and the shrill discord of their bands, created great amusement among the assembled Europeans, who had never seen such a travesty on soldiers before.

The bark wept little sickly tears of gum, and the branches grew awry, as if they felt the continual discord, and made sorry faces at each other behind their owner's back.

Worse than anything was the crazy hum, rising and rising, the hoarse notes, the fierce discord, that beat upon his brain as if to drown him under.

As he was jealous and terrible, the god who visited on men plagues, and famines, and loathsome diseases, the dreadful deity who incited wars and fomented discord, he was named Yaotzin, the Arch Enemy, Yaotl necoc, the Enemy of both Sides, Moquequeloa, the Mocker, Nezaualpilli, the Lord who Fasts, Tlamatzincatl, He who Enforces Penitence; and as dark, invisible and inscrutable, he was Yoalli ehecatl, the Night Wind.

But the lower forms of social humanity are constantly shortening it, and so producing occasional harmonies at the expense of frequent discords.

Among the States of the Entente there is always a fundamental discord on the subject of Russia.

fault,'but there was a ghastly discord in it.