Not that there is any discord in her matchless voice, but there is a vast amount of wrangling as to her precise merits.

It takes so little to upset him, you see, for he feels so acutely what he calls the discords of life.

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.

Nilsson has come; and, sad to say, has brought dissension and discord with her.

If it is, there are few of us who have not thrown into life much, very much to mar the harmonies of nature, to throw discord among the spheres.

Who can tell whether they do not go jarring through the universe, marring the music of the spheres, throwing discord into the anthems of the morning stars when they sing together, a wail among the glad voices of the sons of God, when they shout for joy?

Jenyns versified this effeminization of Christianity, charged orthodoxy with attributing cruelty to God, and asserted that faith in divine and human kindness would banish all wrong and discord from the world.

These are all prohibited; and are replaced by fustian declamations, tending to promote anarchy and discord by vulgar and immoral farces, and insidious and flattering panegyrics on the vices of low life.

The Madonna and Child only are in the foreground, a not too radiant but very tender couple; in the background are male figures nearly nude: not quite, as Michelangelo made them, and suggesting no discord as in his picture.

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

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.

Much ill-will and sectarian prejudice are the natural consequence; in fact, the Act is a perfect apple of discord throughout the Canadas, and has engendered more animosity and resentment than any one legislative act, sanctioned by the Home Government, since the acquisition (if so it can he called) of the country.

It is in vain to attempt the setting of spiritual discords to physical music.

They were caught in an irretrievable blunder, owing partly to discord amongst the uncles of Henry VI., partly to a want of funds, but partly to the very impossibility which they believed to press with tenfold force upon any French attempt to forestall theirs.

For the first, which is love and hate, as Montanus saith, nulla firmior amicitia quam quae contrahitur hinc; nulla discordia major, quam quae a religione fit; no greater concord, no greater discord than that which proceeds from religion, it is incredible to relate, did not our daily experience evince it, what factions, quam teterrimae factiones, (as Rich.

With strident-sobbing hee-haw, hee-haw there His unremitting discords without number That beast so nearly brought me to despair That I cried outand wakened from my slumber.

So that when it came time to rejoin our ladies there was no evidence of wandering legs, no amiably vacant laughter, no loud voices to strike the postprandial discord at the dance or at the card-tables.