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They eyed each other for a moment. "Going 'round again?" asked John. The boy nodded. "What'd he give you?" John displayed his pencil box; the boy, a discordant reed whistle. "Want to trade?" No sooner offered than accepted. What was the use of a school pencil box anyway? Again they fell in with the Santa Claus line, hoping devoutly that the sentry would not recognize them.
But at length these discordant voices were united in one general note of horror, as the whole Athenian fleet, or all that was left of it, was seen making in headlong rout for the upper end of the bay, with the victorious Syracusans pressing hard behind.
And, in fact, to confine ourselves to the subject under discussion, it is obvious that competition, practised for itself and with no other object than to maintain a vague and discordant independence, can end in nothing, and that its oscillations are eternal.
To weld thirteen jealous and discordant States, demoralized by an exhausting war, into a unified and efficient nation against their wills, was a seemingly impossible task. Frederick the so-called Great had said that a federal union of widely scattered communities was impossible. Its final accomplishment has blinded the world to the essential difficulty of the problem.
But, that, perhaps, was because they seldom or never heard Jasper's sweeter, flute-like notes, or the soft, low chatter which he kept for his most intimate friends. What most of his acquaintances knew and disliked was Jasper's noisy "Jay! jay!" But even that discordant cry suited Jasper very well.
As our army was adding to our confines on the Southwest, so there were other, though secret, forces which added to our territory in the far Northwest. As to this and as to the means by which it came about, I have already been somewhat plain. It was a goodly company that assembled for the grand ball, the first one in the second season of Mr. Polk's somewhat confused and discordant administration.
This better spirit especially is represented in institutions like this, which acknowledge no differences of creed which are constructed on the broadest principles of toleration and which, therefore, as a rule, are wisely protected from the intrusion of discordant subjects.
"I don't know," she said dryly, as if the lemonade had failed to cool her parched throat, "that depends on how you look at it." Mrs. Whittle gave vent to a cackle of rather discordant laughter. "That's just what I was telling Abby on the way over," she said. "Once in a while you do run across a person that's bound to make a show of their money." Mrs.
It is the sharp, uncouth, or unharmonious clashing of heterogeneous consonants which strikes the ear painfully. It is true the Sclavic languages make use of many consonants, but their connection is generally sonorous, sometimes pleasant to the ear, and scarcely ever entirely discordant, even when the combinations are more striking than agreeable.
They sat there for a long time, smoking in silence. One thought dominated Corrigan's mind: "Three weeks, and exchanging confidences damn him!" A discordant note floated out of the medley of sound in palpitating Manti, sailed over the ridiculous sky line and smote the ears of the two on the platform. The air rocked an instant later with a cheer, loud, pregnant with enthusiasm.
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