Their liking had matured into an attachment, which might have been predicated upon their consonance of feeling and sentiment.
I give you credit for having acted in perfect consonance with the finest feelings of your soul.
The author there is commenting on the second section of the first article of the Constitution, and I think his reasoning on that upon general principles may be correct, at any rate it is in consonance with the authority that he cites.
In consonance with this organic law, the policy of which is not open to discussion because it has been adopted according to all the legal forms by the people of the United States, I offer this amendment.
As to its position, this consonance may occur in the beginning of a syllable or word, or in the middle, or in both middle and end at the same time.
The harmony or consonance of the unlike vowels is hardly perceptible in Modern English and does not count as alliteration.
Out of these various possibilities of likeness or consonance there arise three chief kinds of rhyme in this wide sense, alliteration, assonance, and end-rhyme, or rhyme simply in the more limited and usual acceptation of the word.
Alliteration consists in a consonance or agreement of the sounds at the beginning of a word or syllable, as in love and liking, house and home, woe and weal.
In its widest sense rhyme is an agreement or consonance of sounds in syllables or words, and falls into several subdivisions, according to the extent and position of this agreement.
The special regard paid to the head of the victim is quite in consonance with traditions of European paganism and folk-lore in many countries.
Quite in consonance with Indian practice they first became Penates and Lares before they rose to the rank of the superior deities.
There was no light in the chamber; the cold glitter of the glass was in consonance with the chill that had crept over his spirits; and he moved on, convinced that his imagination had been mocking him.
Notwithstanding the pleasure it may be, to partake of the hospitality of your noble house, I would gladly forego that happiness, were it in consonance with my duty to the King--which of course is paramount to everything else.
Not because they were in consonance with the professions of her own father; but from the courage required to avow such sentiments in such times; and courage was just the virtue to challenge the admiration of this bold-hearted beauty.
You are not permitted to remain in the atmosphere with which you have grown familiar, in the surroundings which have become those of your later life, and your consonance with which it is too late for you to change.
It is theconsonance of that fiction with the whole body of modern custom and law, with the whole mass of modern economic and social habit.
His person had never been offensive to her, and something attractive or modifying in him had led her, when a child, to offer a flower to his hat, to give it consonance with himself, that seemed to deserve less evil.
Both explanations leave a mystery, but the mystery in the second case can be explained more in consonance with what we know about syphilitic transmission and immunity than in the other case.
That flamboyant outside my window, once yours, is as garish, and yet lacks no consonance with all about it.
We all seemed to feel that we must be in consonance with the loving nature that had made the sky so blue and the sea so still.
He chooses the work that is in consonance with his mode of life, and gives him leisure and strength to do his duty to God and man.
But this does not seem inconsonance with the Aristotelian use of these terms.
There is no such thing as consonance or dissonance, only imperfect training of the ear (I am quoting from his Harmony, certainly a bible for musical supermen).
The design is large in quality, the idea altogether in consonance with the early emotional attitude of Kubin toward life.
No generation can duly value a character whose life is not in consonance with the prevailing spirit of that generation.
Inspiration is in consonance with miracle; and there is a dissimilarity of inspiration observable in the Scriptures.
I soon found her apparent predilection was simply the result of the casualty which brought me almost exclusively into her society, but unmarked by any consonance of taste, feeling, or understanding.
The purest and most ardent affection, the greatest consonance of taste and disposition, and the most congenial virtue and wishes distinguish this lovely couple.
The consonance of their dispositions, the similarity of their tastes, and the equality of their ages are a sure pledge of happiness.
Ever in consonance with wider interests his work opened up strange regions of dreamland, touched trains of thought that run far beyond the boundaries of men's ordinary mental horizon.
Anxious not to offend the little Japanese lady by any proceeding not in consonance with the social etiquette of her country, we took Mr. Mason's advice.
For all moves in consonance with a higher power that understands the meaning of the movement.
And each moves the pieces before him in consonancewith his ability.
No: for I endeavor to speak inconsonance with my importance.
Though doubtful in appearance, more in consonance with the creepy imagery of a nightmare than a reality of the better day, these are merely the shy and innocent brittle stars.
They, in consonance with the general habits of the species, were wont to lay their eggs carelessly on the sand or shingle, without pretence of nests.
It was the only act that appeared at all in consonance with escape!
He snarled in consonance with the wind-shrieks and the wind-moans that now came to hold a personal malevolence in their pandemonium for himself.
Consonance is an immediate and fundamental impression,--psychologically an ultimate fact.
The tonic is the epitome of all the most perfect feelings of consonanceor unity which are possible in any particular sequence of tones, and is therefore the goal or resting-place after an excursion.
Consonance is the feeling of unity, and fusion is the mutual relation of tones which gives that feeling.
Not that consonance itself, the feeling of unity, is explained.
Consonance is fusion, that is, unitary impression.
The other explanation makes consonancedue to the identity of partial tones.
But at any rate consonance is the root of the "return," and of its development into complete tonality.
But the desire for resolution is historically much later than the distinction between consonance and dissonance.
The school, being democratic and dependent upon the general public for existence, takes its cue therefrom, and creating ideals in consonance with public needs perfects the method of reaching them.
It is much less difficult to furnish a house throughout than to refurnish an old room in consonance with others already complete.
His noble powers were in perfect consonance with his noble soul.
For with us change is effected so gradually and in such exact consonance with the necessities of the people as to be almost imperceptible, and to afford no handle to the turbulent and designing revolutionist.
So his wanderings were not only in the most natural but in the wisest consonance with his creative dreams.
Whenever this consonance is not found, human belief in the dignity of the law and in the efficacy of justice ceases.
The process is analogous to that of rhyme, when consonance supplies the desired common factor.
Among these we particularly find associations of the sound and consonance types.
