He gave her an evasive reply, and then murmured to himself, as he picked a handful of orange lilies: "It is an institution of the Evil One to sow discord among brothers.

"Well, much as I esteem her, and much as I admire her, I feel, Sir Henry, that she had no right to bring discord into your house.

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.

But if you do not reinforce your intuition with a careful study of words, you will vacillate from one method to the other and strike crude discords of phrasing.

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?

The band attendant on these troops consisted of two or three flageolets, kettle-drums, and trumpets made of cow-horns, which, according to the report of our tourists, when in full play produced the most diabolical discord.

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.

Also that the Odes of Ch'ing should be allowed to introduce discord in connection with the music of the Festal Songs and Hymns.

He heard no discord.

Jenny notes how Mrs. Marlove's partiality for her froward maid promotes discord in the family, and Jemmy is shocked to find the fair Liberia so fond of cards that "though at present a profest enemy to religion, she would be the greatest devotee imaginable, were she once persuaded there were gaming-tables in heaven.

Their own, And better got, than Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walked innoxious through his age.

Some domestic dissension may come(no nation is safe against it)the passion of particular interest may cause some momentary discord.

The reproach repeated -ad nauseam- by the erudite rabble in Hellenic and post-Hellenic timesthat the Romans had been at pains to stir up internal discord in Greeceis one of the most foolish absurdities which philologues dealing in politics have ever invented.

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.

Domestic peace and quietness have superseded discord and strife, and a very general sense of astonishment at the gross delusion which these drinks have long produced on the human species is manifest.

If this article had been before me when the letter of December 23 was written, I might have gone much further in opposition to the President's plan for stabilizing peace in the world on the ground that a guaranty so conditioned would cause rather than prevent international discord.

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

But verses which make us feel the marvel afreshthe marvel visible and credible by the depth of its heart of glorymake us at the same time easily forget the discord in themselves.

The student must call to mind the elements at war in Hamlet's soul, and generating discords in his behaviour: to those comes now the shock of Ophelia's death; the last tie that bound him to life is gonethe one glimmer of hope left him for this world!

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 voice of the world, he thought, went up to heaven a discord, unintelligible, hopeless,the great blind world, astray since the first ages!

She would convert him; purify him; harmonise his discords.

Far from taking any pains to hide their discords from the world, she seemed to court observation by seizing every opportunity of inflicting mortification upon him in public, reckless of the reflections such improprieties might bring upon herself.

No harmony could be infinite enough to hold such discords, he thought, pushing the whole matter from him in despair.

Happy he, thrice blessed she, who is striving to hush its discords and to awaken its harmonies by never so imperceptible a motion!"