The revulsion of feeling was so strong that she felt the chords tightening in her throat, which denoted approaching tears, such as she often shed for no adequate reason.
The bloom of the atmosphere is harmonised in the very finestchords with the virginal white of their dresses and the fresh verdure of the landscapes.
The task of painters who were entrusted with the embellishment of the walls of a building was to waken dreams and strike chords of feeling, to summon a mood of solemnity, to delight the eye, to uplift the spirit.
He has struck deeperchords of thought than the English public had heard before.
Gay trains rustle, rosy Loves laugh down from the walls, Venetian chandeliers shed their radiance; no other epoch in history enables the painter with so much ease to produce such an efflorescence of full-toned chords of colour.
The simplest chords of colour are often the most effective; nothing can be more charming than the delicate duet of grey and gold.
In this sunny brightness, flooded with light and air, they found a crowd of problems, and turned to the perpetual discovery of new chords of colour.
There are delicatechords of colour, and that is enough.
For a long time I was serenely content to listen to the myriad-voiced chords without thinking of the past or future.
Two great chords rolling on syncopated waves of sound break forth: D minor and its dominant: a round of dreadful joy to all musicians].
He wafts a final blast of his great rolling chords after him as a parting salute.
At the wave of the statue's hand the great chords roll out again but this time Mozart's music gets grotesquely adulterated with Gounod's.
Suddenly his turn is called, and you follow him in, where, as soon as he is seen, he is welcomed by cheers from the students and girls, and an elaborate fanfare ofchords on the piano.
There one listened to the full, swelling chords of the organ; here to the soft, dulcet, silvery notes of the violin.
They knew, as genuine painters, that only in the pigment on their palette slumbers that power of exciting emotion by means of which the art of painting touches the chords of men's souls.
Can such chords be rudely snapped without a jarring discord?
But the strange hand that tugs at the chords of my ruined life, and seeks to tear them asunder, has shattered this resolve.
But for all that it was an unspeakable comfort to her, when she felt that she was striking melodious chords within her lonely soul, to listen to the rise and fall of this melody of thoughts, and to transcribe it as well as she was able.
Her voice to me was so different from all I had ever heard before, as might be a sweet silver bell intoned to the small chords of a harp.
We waited a very long time, with the moon marching up heaven steadfastly, and the white fog trembling in chords and columns, like a silver harp of the meadows.
He relieved his feelings with a few chordson the piano, and then, after a few more uneasy turns in his room, went off to call on his co-trustee.
For some reason of his own he wasted ten minutes at his piano before he obeyed the summons of the gong, and the chords he played were mostly minor.
Then chords on the bass notes were heard at the same time with the melody, and, when the piano was playing, the music-box also began to play, both performances lasting several minutes.
It did not vibrate on the chords of unhappy memory, but was soothing to the heart as the voice of Pity.
V The first chordsof the moonlight sonata are sounded and a vision begins.
And though a desire to turn the pins of the violin and touch the chordswith their tiny fingers may have taken hold of them, they did not, however, do so, through honesty and hospitality.
The guitar is busy throughout the movement, with full chordsand extended arpeggios.
The violin part in this quartet is brilliant, but not particularly difficult; there is no double-stopping, excepting in chords of accompaniment.
The guitar accompaniments, with the exception named, are all in chordsor arpeggios.
It called up his highest feelings; it lingered in his soul, thrilled along his heart and played on the chords of love and hope.
The frogs had begun to trill, sweet and melodious sound to Lane, striking melancholy chordsof memory.
A 'just' plainsong would mean that the singer had managed his extempore descant 'without singing eyther false chords or forbidden descant one to another.
It was common for the Organ or other keyed instrument to join with the viols in these pieces, and thus fill out the chords of the 'consort,' as it was called.
Quickening and suggestive to the mind, they have the rarer power of touching chords of feeling which few preachers reach.
A story of rare interest, touching deeper chords of life.
The solemn and mournful chords which commence the opera, excited a sorrowful emotion in the breasts of both those who sang and those who heard.
There are even those here who would willingly regard music as a state interest, because, perhaps, the cutting of two chords of the lyre of Timotheus was so regarded at Sparta.
At this moment the final chords of the overture were heard.
He has achieved it by the use of chords repeated in triple time--a monotonous rhythm of gloomy musical emphasis--and so persistent as to be quite overpowering.
He rejoiced in its satire, the related chords met with a response within his own soul, and its speculative tendencies harmonized with his own propensity to depict what was universally valid, universally human.
There had been a time when she believed that, like thechords of a harp, the sweetest strains of her life had been broken.
A wordless message came to Geraldine, as she stood silent and alone; it called to the depth of her soul, and smote upon the sweet, vibrant chords of her womanhood.
The upperchords are compressed as forcibly as the lower ones suffer tension--owing to the action and reaction of the diagonals.
Top and bottom chords are always used in this bridge, and consequently the counter rods have only to sustain the movable load on one panel.
When this is done the top chords are gradually lowered into place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chords" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
