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Example sentences for "false note"

  • Nobody talks much that does n't say unwise things,--things he did not mean to say; as no person plays much without striking a false note sometimes.

  • I don't say that it is not her business to vote, but I do say that a woman who does not please is a false note in the harmonies of nature.

  • Facts always yield the place of honor, in conversation, to thoughts about facts; but if a false note is uttered, down comes the finger on the key and the man of facts asserts his true dignity.

  • That again is a false note," I said, laughing.

  • Bon, a false note I can see it by your face; you remind me of a maitre de piano.

  • It is because human companionship gives courage to the most self-reliant of us"; and somewhere in the words he was aware of a false note, but he did not stop to place it.

  • There was never a false note in his gentle manner, and I grew to trust serenely to his tact and self-respect, and talked to him freely as I chose.

  • There was no false note in him, nothing to dilute the strain; he knew his direction and held it hard--wrought with passion and went as straight as he could.

  • In David not an error, not a false note ever; he is all of an exasperating truth and rightness.

  • But there is no false note of surface, beyond this, I think, that you need be uneasy about at all.

  • A false note in rhetoric like the above you will find in Emerson oftener than a false note in taste.

  • Tis a false note to speak of Emerson's doctrines, as Henry James did.

  • In turning round to rebuke the errant performer, the violinist struck his elbow against a similar projection of the other flutist, and knocked a false note out of that gentleman too, besides momentarily ruffling his temper.

  • The second flutist, while looking over his shoulder angrily at the garrulous audience, executed a false note, which almost threw the first (and only) violinist into fits.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    can get; chop fine; complete edition; doing things; false brethren; false doctrine; false impression; false knight; false name; false note; false oath; false opinion; false pretences; false prophets; false sense; false step; false teeth; false witness; false witnesses; general idea; good tidings; medical advice; small spring; teaspoonful vanilla; winged horse; would ever