discord is fundamental to the creation of new intensities of feeling.John Gardner -- Grendel
The only visible wisp of discord was the broken glass in the windows of Jewish businesses.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
This was the cause of constant discordGabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
Particular rules seem at first discordant, but looking more closely we see in general that they resemble each other;Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The entire business had taken an hour and twenty minutes, only one discordant note intruding on the smooth proceedings.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
It sounded cold, almost hostile. Apparently hoping to counteract the discordant note, the editor said, ...Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
And I, for winking at your discords too,
Have lost a brace of kinsmen:William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
How shall we find the concord of this discord?William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
It would be too painful to me to think that I might be a cause of sorrow or discord in the family that has been so good to me...Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
...and involving her in a new tumult of discord and distress.Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
an outburst of the most hideous and discordant noises.Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson
Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a profound thing,Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
Eragon frowned; a note of discord had entered the minds he was monitoring.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
his love for sowing dissensions and scattering discord everywhereMiguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
My soul is full of discord and dismay.William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
There was a discordant hum of human voices!Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum
But then discord crept among usJ.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
disdain, and discord, shall bestrew the union of your bedWilliam Shakespeare -- The Tempest
it leads to a discord, and that leads to trouble.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
...tell me the reason why such great discord has assailed it.Dante Alighieri -- Dante’s Inferno
Jealousy, discord, and fury, dwell in the convent.Voltaire -- Candide
I, for my own part, cannot think that these latter days of weak experiment, fragmentary theory, and mutual discord are indeed man’s culminating time!H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine
I didn’t want to be a source of familial discord when they were already arguing.Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason;William Shakespeare -- King Lear
it would produce a discord in NatureNathaniel Hawthorne -- The Birthmark
...it would create such discord as might break up the company.Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
...trying to attach some meaning to them not discordant with his own views;Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
But just then there was a slight altercation between Master Tommy and Master Jacky. ... The apple of discord was...James Joyce -- Ulysses
should discord growSophocles -- Oedipus the King
The walls of the rooms were discordantly papered.Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
discord in the spheresWilliam Shakespeare -- As You Like It
Long had the smouldering fire of discord glowed between the tyrant father and his savage son...Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
by prevention of discord at homeThomas Hobbes -- Leviathan
There was always this feeling of jangle and discord in the Leivers family.D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
The enmity and discord which of lateWilliam Shakespeare -- The Comedy of Errors
made no discord with the rest of the sceneMarcel Proust -- Swann’s Way
...was a source of discord between himself and his parishioners,George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
—to observe where they met, and where they separated, at what point they were in unison, and at what point they were at discord,Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
The clash of discord between mood and matter here was forced painfully home to the heart;Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
...to the first discord there succeeded nothing but new ones.Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf