accord
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accord as in: according to, or in accord with

She will get a fair trial in accordance with the law.
accordance = keeping

According to the salesperson, the package will arrive this week.
according to = as stated by (in keeping with)

We are in accord with your proposal.
accord = agreement

We each chose according to our needs.
according to = based upon (in keeping with)

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She dresses in accordance with the latest fashions.
accordance = keeping

[the letter A] was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore, and which was of a splendour in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony. (source)

"She wants to talk to you about the family and what it's meant to Maycomb County through the years, so you'll have some idea of who you are, so you might be moved to behave accordingly," he concluded at a gallop. (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960
accordingly = in keeping with what was just stated

When my father condemned doctors as minions of Satan, Richard turned to Kami and gave a small laugh, as if Dad were joking. But when my father's eyebrows rose, Richard's expression changed to one of serious contemplation and accord. (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018
accord = agreement

The story goes that after my initial reaction to August, it only took a few minutes (according to Grans) or a few days (according to Mom) before I was all over him: kissing him, cuddling him, baby talking to him. (source) R. J. Palacio, Wonder, 2012
according to = as stated by

ACCORDING TO TRADITION, Soraya's family would have thrown the engagement party the Shirini-khori—or "Eating of the Sweets" ceremony. (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003
according to = in agreement with

However, if the soul does exist, then in accordance with eBay's policy on human parts and remains we would not allow the auctioning of human souls. (source) Neal Shusterman, Unwind, 2007
accordance = keeping with

For the first week, everything went according to plan. (source) Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, 2005
according to = in keeping with

According to one theory, McCandless never got around to planting the garden ... and by late July had grown hungry enough to eat the seeds, which poisoned him. (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996
according to = as stated by (in keeping with)

In accordance with the kill-all order, the Japanese massacred all 5,000 Korean captives on Tinian, all of the POWs on Ballale, Wake, and Tarawa, and all but 11 POWs at Palawan. (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010
accordance = keeping

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According to August, if you've never seen a cluster of beehives first thing in the morning, you've missed the eighth wonder of the world. (source)
according to = as stated by

We were going to track down Sergeant Bickle's son and, according to Phoebe, discover the whereabouts of Phoebe's mother. (source) Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons, 1994

He was a devout man, and, even with all his impatience, he wanted to live his life in accordance with Muslim law. (source) Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, 1988
accordance = keeping (or agreement)

The officer had fallen asleep inside the car at the time, according to a police spokesperson. (source) Carl Hiassen, Hoot, 2002
according to = as stated by

A new commander couldn't inherit a good standing from his predecessor — he was ranked according to what he had done. (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977
according to = based upon

According to Gladiola, the westbound train leaves at noon. (source) Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief, 2005
according to = as stated by; or in agreement with

At least according to Dave at lunchtime. (source)
according to = as stated by

For not organizing her things according to protocol. (source)
according to = as stated by; or in agreement with

That is according to your calendar, of course, which even you know isn't very accurate. (source)
according to = in keeping with

...to exercise the rights of sovereignty in accordance with the political and economic interests of neighboring France... (source) Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries, 2000
accordance = keeping (or agreement)

...and her shirts hung in neat rows, arranged according to color. (source) Sara Shepard, Pretty Little Liars, 2006
according to = based upon (in keeping with)

...he needed people on a jury who were open-minded enough to understand that rules weren't always what you thought they were, who could listen to the new regulations and follow them accordingly. (source) Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes, 2007
accordingly = in consequence

It doesn't help that, according to Six, I've already got a bit of a reputation just being associated with her. (source) Colleen Hoover, Hopeless, 2013
according to = as stated by

Fortunately, among these people a man was judged according to his worth and not according to the worth of his father. (source) Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, 1958
according to = based upon

They formed a double line, boys in one line and girls in the other, according to grades and sizes. (source)
according to = depending upon (in keeping with)

According to what I seen in this here movie most the folks in Flint is Chinese. (source)
according to = in agreement with

According to the McDonald's handout, the cheeseburger contains only six ingredients: a 100 percent beef patty, a bun, two American cheese slices, ketchup, mustard, pickles, onions, and "grill seasoning," whatever that is. (source)
according to = as stated by

According to TERRIBLE THINGS! hope sometimes got in the way of action. (source) Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses, 2013

She fought with everything she had, she fought like a lioness to defend what according to tradition was her right--a daughter who would stay with her until she died. (source)
according to = in keeping with (based upon)

He said that according to the Labor Laws we had no grounds on which to dismiss him. (source)
according to = based upon (in keeping with)

each dose had been calculated according to body weight. (source) Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, 2001
according to = in proportion (based upon, or in keeping with)

According to her plan, when she said "three," I was to charge the window. (source) Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why, 2007
according to = as stated by; or in agreement with

According to the rumours, the resettlement 'action' was to start on Sunday night. (source) Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist, 1998

According to Sinita, Trujillo became president in a sneaky way. (source)

However, according to Adam, there is... (source) Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982
according to = as stated by

I was assigned a seat at a bench near the front and given the job of measuring small glass rods and arranging them in piles according to lengths. (source) Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place, 1971
according to = based upon (in keeping with)

After something like that, you can only go your own way according to what's in your heart. (source)
according to = in keeping with (based upon)

Only then will you be acting in accordance with the moral law within you. (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991
accordance = keeping with

The Institute was huge, a vast cavernous space that looked less like it had been designed according to a floor plan and more like it had been naturally hollowed out of rock by the passage of water and years. (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007
according to = based upon

From the time the cholera proclamation was issued, the local garrison shot a cannon from the fortress every quarter hour, day and night, in accordance with the local superstition that gunpowder purified the atmosphere. (source)
accordance = keeping with

Her classmates thought she was crazy and treated her accordingly. (source)
accordingly = in keeping with what was just stated

Like everybody else in Coalwood, I lived according to the rhythms set by the shifts. (source) Homer Hickam, October Sky, 1998
according to = in keeping with (or in harmony or agreement with)

In accordance with New Order 15, President Gray issued an arrest warrant for all persons involved with this dangerous activity…. (source)
accordance = keeping

Tonight they were being fed in accordance with the work they had done. (source)
accordance = keeping with

The only snag comes when the woman at the cashier—Irma, according to her name tag—asks to see my ID. (source) Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall, 2010
according to = as stated by

Papa said, "According to what Old Man Pritchard said, Rainie just couldn't seem to get over the shock." (source)
according to = as stated by; or in agreement with

According to the law … prisoner Number… is condemned to death. (source) Elie Wiesel, Night, 1960
according to = as stated by (in keeping with)

In accordance with the sentence of the court, Smith and Hickock were scheduled to visit the warehouse six weeks hence: (source) Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, 1966
accordance = keeping with

There was some question, according to the adults, as to whether they were his real cousins or not, (source) Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, 1970
according to = as stated by

This was in accordance with the Third Law of Motion according to Sir Isaac Newton. (source)
accordance = in agreement with

But it was a shared if seldom voiced knowledge that all movements fitted, and worked according to a larger plan. (source)
according to = in keeping with

Prioritize the following strategic components according to their importance in the scenario described above: (source) Henry H. Neff, The Hound of Rowan, 2007
according to = based upon (in keeping with)

Things always work according to their nature. (source)
according to = in keeping with (or in agreement with)

They'd been organized according to color and style. (source) J. D. Robb, Naked in Death, 1995
according to = based on (in keeping with)

I am fully aware of it and I am acting accordingly. (source) Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
accordingly = in keeping with or in agreement with what was just stated

According to court documents, when he found Hispanic-looking people on his land, he held them at gunpoint and threatened to kill them. (source) Joshua Davis, Spare Parts, 2014
according to = as stated by; or in agreement with

This had happened simply because the baby was just a bit different in some way from other babies. It had something, or lacked something, so that it did not exactly accord with the Definition. (source) John Wyndham, The Chrysalids, 1955
accord = agree (or match)

It's not any fancy thing, but according to Mrs. Leighton, dressing nicely makes it special, so that's what we do. (source)
according to = as stated by; or in agreement with

It was difficult to see how these calves would grow according to Josiah's theories. (source) Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony, 1977
according to = in keeping with (based upon)

I regulate the flooding of my land in accordance with what crawfish require—which, coincidentally, meets the needs of migrating ducks as well. (source)
accordance = keeping

The foundation for the new house was prepared according to the blueprints which the Bishop sent, (source)
according to = based upon (in keeping with)

I think it's reasonable to sit according to number. (source) Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Men, 1955

I have to act according to my conscience. (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976
according to = based upon (in agreement with)

DRUMMOND: Oh. God speaks to you. ... He tells you exactly what's right and what's wrong?
BRADY: (Doggedly) Yes.
DRUMMOND: And you act accordingly? (source)
accordingly = in keeping with what was just stated

After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities. (source)
according to = based upon (in keeping with)

this was not in accordance with the Charter. (source) Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End, 1953
accordance = keeping with; or agreement with

These officers will act in accordance with their best judgment, under the proclamation of martial law. (source) Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon, 1959
accordance = in keeping with or in agreement with

They assumed the DGSI was looking over their shoulders at all times and listening to their every word, and so they behaved accordingly.† (source) Daniel Silva, The Black Widow, 2016
accordingly = in keeping with or in agreement with what was just stated

Winston's working week was sixty hours, Julia's was even longer, and their free days varied according to the pressure of work and did not often coincide. (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949
according to = depending upon (or in keeping with)

I shall be found, laid neatly on my bed, shot through the forehead in accordance with the record kept by my fellow victims. (source)
accordance = keeping

He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. (source)
according to = in keeping with

And this Court finds you, Matthew Kumalo, and Johannes Pafuri, not guilty, and you are accordingly discharged. (source)
accordingly = in keeping with what was just stated

Each one speaks according to his manner. (source)
according to = in keeping with (based upon)

But what we are here for is to try such accidents, according to law. (source) Albert Camus, The Stranger, 1942

The phrases could mean many things according to the expression and tone used in saying them. (source)
according to = depending upon (or in keeping with)

He was simply saying that according to the way he felt at the time the safety of his women was worth more than his own life. (source) Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun, 1939
according to = based upon (in keeping with)

Miss Barry put us in the spare room, according to promise. (source)
according to = in keeping with

At a hurried council of war behind the line, At a hurried council of war behind the line, it was arranged that... The army split accordingly. (source)
accordingly = in keeping with what was just stated

Somehow his words and his look did not seem to accord, (source) Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897
accord = agree (go together)

Now to Baloo's word I will add one bull, and a fat one, newly killed, not half a mile from here, if ye will accept the man's cub according to the Law. (source) Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, 1894
according to = in keeping with

Clyde was in accord with this wish of the Griffiths, (source)
accord = in agreement

You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. (source) Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923
according to = depending upon (in keeping with)

In all our difficulties and anxieties, however, I never went to a white or a black person in the town of Tuskegee for any assistance that was in their power to render, without being helped according to their means. (source)
according to = in keeping with (in proportion to)

According to my plan, I was going to turn up there from the village, not from below. (source)
according to = as stated by; or in agreement with

According to the compass we have gone northward. (source)
according to = based upon (in keeping with)

You arranged everything according to your own taste, (source) Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House, 1879
according to = in keeping with (based upon)

You intend to make yourself a complete stranger to me: to live under this roof only as Adele's governess; if ever I say a friendly word to you, if ever a friendly feeling inclines you again to me, you will say, — 'That man had nearly made me his mistress: I must be ice and rock to him;' and ice and rock you will accordingly become. (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847
accordingly = as a result (of what was just said)

we must try to re-arrange our lives in accordance with that fact. (source) George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872
accordance = in keeping with (or in agreement with)

Wemmick explained to me ... that this was according to custom, and... (source)
according to = in agreement with

Each one of us dreams of the unknown and the impossible in accordance with his nature. (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862
accordance = in keeping with

The effects of course vary according to the quantity taken, and such remedies should be applied as will best counteract the effect of each poison: (source)
according to = depending upon (in keeping with)

The days between Christmas and New Year's day are allowed as holidays; and, accordingly, we were not required to perform any labor, (source)
accordingly = in agreement with what was just stated

Adam and Eve, according to the fable, wore the bower before other clothes. (source) Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
according to = as stated by

and according to his scheme they were carried out, (source)
according to = in keeping with (as stated in)

I reflected that I ought not to leave the relics of my work to excite the horror and suspicion of the peasants; and I accordingly put them into a basket, with a great quantity of stones, and laying them up, determined to throw them into the sea that very night; (source) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818
accordingly = because of what was just said

he was, according to country custom in those parts, boarded and lodged at the houses of the farmers whose children he instructed. (source)
according to = in keeping with (in agreement with)

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accord as in: reached an accord

They're hoping to have a stronger climate-change accord by the end of the year.
accord = agreement

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We support the Geneva Accord.

As one of the fathers of the Unwind Accord, I was expected to set an example. (source) Neal Shusterman, Unwind, 2007

Some level of accord is reached, and soon enough she and Madame Manec are back in the kitchen at Number 4 rue Vauborel. (source)

"You and I are in accord there," he said. (source)

What about the Geneva Accords? ... America was divided on these and a thousand other issues... (source)
accords = agreements

If you could for a moment rise up out of your own beloved skin and appraise ant, human, and virus as equally resourceful beings, you might admire the accord they have all struck in Africa. (source)
accord = agreement (or arrangement to live together)

Valentine never killed a creature who had not broken the Accords, but he did other things. (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007
accords = agreements

On that point they were in accord, for Dick had said, "If we get caught, let's get caught together." (source) Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, 1966
accord = agreement

Not banned by international accord? (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

He was determined to destroy the Sino-British Hong Kong Accords, shutting down the colony, leaving the whole territory in chaos. (source)
accords = agreements

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I am in accord. (source)
accord = agreement

"Curiosity is a dangerous petition: it is well I have not taken a vow to accord every request—" (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847
accord = agree

That cheerful eye, under the influence of slavery, soon became red with rage; that voice, made all of sweet accord, changed to one of harsh and horrid discord; and that angelic face gave place to that of a demon. (source)
accord = agreement

Being all in perfect accord with their own wives? (source) Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, 1857

SHE SAID SHE'D BELIEVE IN THE GENEVA ACCORDS WHEN THERE WAS NOTHING BUT PARROTS AND MONKEYS MOVING ALONG THE HO CHI MINH TRAIL!† (source)

In her favour, much of what she's told him accords with her printed Confession; but is that really in her favour?† (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

If you know your own history, Garzhvog, then you know it has always been so when Urgals sign peace accords.† (source) Christopher Paolini, Brisingr, 2008

"We associate truth with convenience," he wrote, "with what most closely accords with self-interest and personal well-being or promises best to avoid awkward effort or unwelcome dislocation of life.† (source)

Sounis will need to be informed of whatever accords we reach.† (source)

It is here written, ' Seven entered Meereen to sign the peace accords and witness the celebratory games at the Pit of Daznak.† (source)

It is easier to agree on problems with the existing order than to reach an accord on what should replace it.

I wished to see whether her appearance accorded with Mrs. Fairfax's description; (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847
accorded = agreed to

One afternoon in January, Mrs. Fairfax had begged a holiday for Adele, because she had a cold; and, as Adele seconded the request with an ardour that reminded me how precious occasional holidays had been to me in my own childhood, I accorded it, deeming that I did well in showing pliability on the point. (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

Look, everyone's in Idris for the Accords, and anyway, they'd insist on coming with us.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

The Accords have never had the support of the whole Clave.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

Their plan was to wait for the Downworlders to arrive in Idris to sign the Accords.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

There will be no Accords and no Covenant soon enough.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

I can only hope it does not disrupt the Accords.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

A few hundred years of the Accords can't wipe out a thousand years of hostility.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

Ironically, with his insurrection Valentine made the Accords possible.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

We're here and because of the Accords, nobody else is.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

I heard that he had argued passionately in the Clave against the Accords, but with no success.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

"I'm sure she doesn't know what the Accords are, Jace," said Isabelle around her spoon.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

After such wholesale slaughter, the Accords would fail.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

Through it Clary could see the hazy outlines of the Hall of Accords.† (source)

You pursue your "outrageous" accusations, he pulls Peking out of the Hong Kong Accords.† (source)

"What you did in the Hall of Accords," Aline said.† (source)

She remembered the way he had held her on the steps of the Accords Hall in Idris.† (source)

Murderers, renegade vampires, Shadowhunters who break the Accords.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes, 2008

He saw her there on the dais in the Accords Hall.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Glass, 2009

She was sitting in a high seat on the dais in the Accords Hall, Simon by her side.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Glass, 2009

Peking would pull out of the Accords, blaming Taiwan and the West for messing around.† (source)

So that's the attitude of the Clave, a week after the Accords?" said Pete with disgust.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes, 2008

Get them to rethink the new Accords, perhaps.† (source)

She saw the floor of the Accords Hall, hard marble veined with gold, before she hit it.† (source)

The lease runs out in barely a decade, which is why the new accords were negotiated with Peking.† (source)

Clary sat on the top step of the Accords Hall, looking out over Angel Square.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Glass, 2009

By that time the Clave had surrounded the Hall of Accords.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes, 2008

They broke the Accords—they cared nothing for the Law.† (source)

And I'm not sure she'd be keen to get caught breaking the Accords like that.† (source)

We are jointly pleased to announce that further progress has been made with regard to the Accords.† (source)

The Accords you dreaded so much didn't make Downworlders equal to Nephilim.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Glass, 2009

And now he's been instrumental with all the new Accords stuff.† (source)

Though he is a faerie, he and his huntsmen are not involved with the Accords.† (source)

That the UK had called you in for consultation on the Accords.† (source)

The inside of the Accords Hall was both familiar and unfamiliar.† (source)

You can see why there's so much opposition to the Accords.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Glass, 2009

The Hall of Accords was lit like a bonfire, witchlight pouring out of its doors and windows.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Glass, 2009

She caught glimpses of the inside of the Accords Hall as she reached the steps and walked up them.† (source)

Yet another round in the endless verbosity about the Accords.† (source)

Without us watching, with Downworld turning against us, the Accords will fall apart.† (source)

A moment later she was out of the house, hurrying down the canal path toward the Accords Hall.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Glass, 2009

Luke and Amatis are at the Accords Hall, having another meeting.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Glass, 2009

The Hall of Accords was draped with the blue banners of victory.† (source)

The Accords Hall itself was dark and shut tight.† (source)

The space inside the Hall of Accords had been swiftly reconfigured since the night of the battle.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Glass, 2009

Clary sat on the steps of the dais in the Hall of Accords, holding the stele in her hands.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Glass, 2009

The bottles broke, when we were fighting the demons in the Accords Hall.† (source)

Clary recognized the inside of the Hall of Accords the moment she entered it.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Glass, 2009

And that means nobody carries Tavvy to the Accords Hall, and nobody protects Livvy or Ty or Dru.† (source)

They were standing in an enormous entryway, the size of the inside of the Accords Hall.† (source)

If they decide you're a spy, then the Accords don't apply.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Glass, 2009

They got to the Accords Hall pretty fast when you triggered that alarm.† (source)

And given our new cooperation with Downworlders, we will have to rely on them to keep the Accords.† (source)

I don't want to hide in the Accords Hall.† (source)

Not to bend to the Accords, not to follow an outside Law.† (source)

Possibly it accords too well.† (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

He and his group, the Circle, killed dozens of their brethren along with hundreds of Downworlders during the last Accords.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

They don't like you much, whatever the Accords might say—and there's nothing in the Covenant about not killing animals.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

It was the year of the Accords, and all of Downworld was abuzz about them and Valentine's probable plans for disrupting them.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

I hunted, but the hunt brought no satisfaction; and when it came time for the Accords to be signed at last, I went into the city to sign them.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

When we had signed the Accords, I rose from my chair and went from the hall, down to the river where I had found Jocelyn on the night of the Uprising.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

On the day of the Accords, I watched from a hidden place as Jocelyn and Valentine left the manor house.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

He didn't approve of the Accords.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

The Circle still clamored for the Mortal Cup, but since the death of his father, Valentine had become an outspoken proponent of war against all Downworlders, not just those who broke the Accords.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

When the Accords were presented for signing, Valentine rose to his feet, and the Circle rose with him, sweeping back their cloaks to lift their weapons.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

They allied themselves with demons—the greatest enemies of Shadowhunters—in order to procure weapons that could be smuggled undetected into the Great Hall of the Angel, where the Accords would be signed.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

Did the Accords get signed?† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

Because of the Accords.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

She thought of the Shadowhunters behind their wards, and of the fragility of the Accords and Council.† (source)

She remembered the day of her wedding to Valentine, the sun bright and clear through the crystal roof of the Accords Hall.† (source)

But if the conspiracy is not aborted, it will destroy the Hong Kong Accords and blow the colony apart.† (source)

She remembered him sitting on the front steps of the Accords Hall in Idris, holding the box in his lap.† (source)

The poem was by Rudyard Kipling, and it so neatly encapsulated the rules by which werewolves lived, the Law that bound their actions, that he wondered if Kipling hadn't been a Downworlder himself, or at least known about the Accords.† (source)

The Institute reminded me too much of the Hall of Accords in Idris—I could feel the strength of the Gray Book's runes all around me, after fifteen years of trying to forget them.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes, 2008

Her eyes were sad, as they had been that day in the Hall of Accords in Alicante, when she'd cut the oldest curse of the world into his skin.† (source)

She never agreed to the new Accords.† (source)

The China Accords guarantee fifty years of a Free Economic Zone status and Sheng is a signator, the most vital one!† (source)

That someone who isn't very pleased about the new Accords is trying to set Downworlder against Downworlder," Luke said.† (source)

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accord as in: done of her own accord

She was not forced. She did it of her own accord.
own accord = own mind -- voluntarily (without anyone asking)

They hoped we would fight amongst ourselves, but we are of one accord on the matter.
one accord = one mind (in agreement)

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After the fight, he turned himself in of his own accord.
own accord = own mind -- voluntarily (without anyone asking)

How dare you, woman, to go before the mighty Agbala of your own accord? (source) Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, 1958
own accord = own mind (without anyone saying to)

I fancy that the same idea seemed to strike the others, for with one accord they shrank back. (source) Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897
one accord = one mind (an unvoiced agreement)

"And will we tell the mayor what's in the box?" the assistant asked.
"No, just that it's information they won't need and must not see until the box opens of its own accord."
"So the first mayor will pass the box to the next mayor, and that one to the next, and so on..." (source) Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember, 2003
own accord = on its own

Lev knows the kid didn't come here of his own accord. Tithes are never supposed to be left alone. He was sent here
to be Lev's buddy. (source) Neal Shusterman, Unwind, 2007
own accord = mind (without anyone asking)

I was surprised when the prayer we said after dinner each night, the one with the beads, started up of its own accord and recited itself in the back reaches of my head. (source)
own accord = own mind (by itself--as though it had a mind of its own)

...if the old man didn't know how to read, he would probably feel ashamed and decide of his own accord to change benches. (source) Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, 1988
own accord = own mind (without anyone asking)

With one accord all the beasts rose to their feet, turned toward one of the arched openings, and bowed their heads and tentacles in greeting. (source)
one accord = mind

She walked in with the bailiff, but instead of marching toward the tiny wooden balcony where the witness was to sit, her body moved of its own accord in the other direction. (source) Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes, 2007
own accord = own mind (without her telling it to)

But she didn't get the chance to knock. The door swung open of its own accord. (source) Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses, 2013
own accord = own mind -- voluntarily (without anyone asking)

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On bad days the orange walls held hands and bent over him, inspecting him like malevolent doctors, slowly, deliberately, squeezing the breath out of him and making him scream. Sometimes they receded of their own accord, and the room he lay in grew impossibly large, terrorizing him with the specter of his own insignificance. (source)
own accord = own mind (as though walls moved of their own free will)

So we'll leave of our own accord and not wait to be hauled away. (source)
own accord = own mind (on her own)

You can dream of that world if you have the time and inclination; however, if you don't think of it, it will not force itself on your notice of its own accord. (source) Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist, 1998
own accord = own mind -- voluntarily (without anyone asking)

With one accord Father and I turned around and walked after him. (source) Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place, 1971
one accord = one mind (chose the same action without discussing it)

Not the belly slither of angry snakes coming up from the sheltered ground of their own accord to punish us. (source)
own accord = own mind (without anyone telling them to)

people in his time were deeply fascinated by machines and the workings of clocks, which appeared to have the ability to function of their own accord. (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991
own accord = own mind (voluntarily without anyone making it do so)

Of its own accord, seemingly, her head slipped to one side so her right ear was pressed against the ground -- she had seen children in similar postures by the railway line, listening for trains. (source) Stephen King, Misery, 1987
own accord = own mind (without her telling it to do so)

Blomkvist agreed with Vanger that the chances of a sixteen-year-old girl going off of her own accord and then staying hidden for... (source)
own accord = own mind (without anyone telling her to do it)

She stopped talking two days before her voice faded of its own accord. (source)
own accord = own mind

The car rolled forward on its own accord and I panicked, slamming my foot down on what I thought was the brake pedal. (source)
own accord = own (on its own without anyone making it do so)

So I figured, wherever they were, they weren't there of their own accord. (source) Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, 1966
own accord = own mind (voluntarily)

I would have had more faith if she'd gone of her own accord. (source) Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key, 2008
own accord = own mind (voluntarily -- without anyone asking)

It was always possible that the teeth would quiet down and maybe drop out of their own accord. (source)
own accord = own mind (i.e., on their own)

...the gates closed behind him of their own accord. (source)
own accord = own mind (without anyone making them)

the gate seemed to open of its own accord (source)
own accord = own mind -- voluntarily (without anyone asking)

...at some point her lethargy dissipated of its own accord and... (source) Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon, 1977
own accord = own mind (on its own--without her telling it to)

Hazel went out of his own accord, to distract their attention while we got away. (source) Richard Adams, Watership Down, 1972
own accord = own mind (voluntarily without anyone asking)

Let it open by itself and come back of its own accord. (source)
own accord = own mind (i.e., voluntarily)

And yet the instant that he allowed his thoughts to wander, his feet had brought him back here of their own accord. (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949
own accord = own mind (without his telling them to--as though they had a mind of their own)

You, I understand, went to the police of your own accord? (source) Agatha Christie, The ABC Murders, 1936
own accord = own mind (voluntarily)

Depend upon it, Marilla, she'll cool off in a week or so and be ready enough to go back of her own accord, (source)
own accord = own mind -- voluntarily (without anyone asking)

As of one accord, we moved toward each other and embraced. (source)
one accord = one mind (in agreement)

They decided with one accord, without even a whisper, to... (source)
one accord = one mind

She wanted to leave there of her own accord. (source)
own accord = own mind (voluntarily without anyone asking)

Selden had come of his own accord. (source) Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, 1905
own accord = voluntarily (without someone asking)

she left you of her own accord (source) Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1895
own accord = own mind (voluntarily without anyone asking or making her)

After about four hours' walking the horses stopped of their own accord at the door of the priest's house at Stapi. (source)
own accord = own mind -- voluntarily (without anyone asking)

...and still better, it may be, to leave the mystery as we find it, unless Providence reveal it of its own accord. (source)
own accord = own mind (on its own)

Shake me off, then, sir, -- push me away, for I'll not leave you of my own accord. (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847
own accord = voluntarily

Widowed and orphaned families had no need to summon him; he came of his own accord. (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862
own accord = own mind (voluntarily)

The perverse creature had obstinately resisted our attempts to bring her with us, but finding herself deserted, had followed of her own accord, (source)
own accord = own mind -- voluntarily (without anyone asking)

For instance, the slaveholders not only like to see the slave drink of his own accord, but will adopt various plans to make him drunk. (source)
own accord = own mind (voluntarily)

Well, no. I have hailed you of my own accord.† (source)

The bedroom door had opened of its own accord.† (source)

The words had poured out of Tally of their own accord.† (source) Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005

You cannot leave the palace of your own accord.† (source) Kiera Cass, The Selection, 2012

It rolled up of its own accord.† (source)

For another, I thought, you gave it away of your own accord.† (source) Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, 1991

There's even an antique cradle with Mister Johnny's old baby bonnet and silver rattle that I swear I can hear tinkling sometimes on its own accord.† (source) Kathryn Stockett, The Help, 2009

Her feet moved of their own accord toward him, then past, back to the woods.† (source) Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass, 2012

Catelyn's animal followed of its own accord.† (source)

Gradually, he felt Langdon's body sink, on its own accord, to the bottom.† (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

And she hardly had to do that—of their own accord, they had moved apart and turned away, and now both were discreetly straightening their clothes.† (source) Ian McEwan, Atonement, 2001

So on her own accord, she called Ahmad one day and asked him to take his younger brother with him.† (source) Dave Eggers, Zeitoun, 2009

No one doubted that the tribe would be found at the Castle Rock and when they came in sight of it they stopped with one accord.† (source)

The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.† (source) Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953

"Other side," he said, when I, feet moving of their own accord, followed him again.† (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

So we spent a good thirty minutes on our lawn-mower-motor-propelled ships, ramming each other and turning wild twists, and then we got bored and left of our own accord.† (source) Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, 2012

Pieces of debris that he could not have moved normally now seemed to shift on their own accord.† (source) Christopher Paolini, Eragon, 2003

His men spread fear abroad like the Black Death, they push it under doors and through mailboxes, they paint it on walls and stable doors until it infects everything around it of its own accord, silent and stinking like a plague.† (source) Cornelia Funke, Inkheart, 2003

He wanted to know if we had stayed in the hut of our own accord or if the owner knew about us.† (source) Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone, 2007

It's like a window that will simply open of its own accord.† (source)

My eyes, of their own accord, flickered to him.† (source) Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005

Unnecessary because Isabelle quickly latched onto the instrument of her own accord and unfeasible because the cello made Pari's hands ache.† (source)

The windows started opening and closing of their own accord; the sunroof hummed open, then slammed shut; the wipers scraped across the dry windshield, then beat so fast they snapped off; the horn began to sound out an irregular beat.† (source) Michael Scott, The Alchemyst, 2007

And underneath that is another feeling still, a feeling like being torn open; not like a body of flesh, it is not painful as such, but like a peach; and not even torn open, but too ripe and splitting open of its own accord.† (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

He didn't steal the cows, they followed him out of the barn of their own accord.† (source)

But Esteban Trueba was not the kind of man to let himself be scared away by tales of ghosts in hallways, objects that move of their own accord, or prognostications of bad luck, much less by Clara's prolonged silence, which he considered a virtue.† (source)

In games, he would frequently chase the ball from one end of the field to the other, switching from defense to midfield to offense and back, of his own accord, running himself to exhaustion.† (source) Warren St. John, Outcasts United, 2009

When Doreen woke up she wouldn't remember what had happened and would think she must have passed out i n front of my door while I slept, and she would get up of her own accord and go sensibly back to her room.† (source) Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, 1971

If the horse died of his own accord, so be it.† (source)

Newt ate another of his own accord and Deets ate four or five more.† (source) Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove, 1985

They didn't remind me—they just let me rail on like an old fool until I remembered of my own accord, and that made me even angrier because if they had any respect for me at all they would have at least made sure I had the facts straight.† (source) Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants, 2007

The only time we do this is when we are certain that the people who come to us have chosen to die of their own accord.† (source)

It had died of its own accord, expired completely without even an ember to be watered down, and there was nothing for the disappointed firemen to do but drink tepid coffee and hang around trying to screw the nurses.† (source) Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961

Recently I asked the postman for special-issue stamps; I've waited since childhood for postmen to give me some of their own accord.† (source)

Were they here of their own accord?† (source)

Icicles from the masts and rigging rained upon the deck and shattered as the Kestrel's great sails unfurled of their own accord.† (source) Henry H. Neff, The Second Siege, 2008

At least a dozen Soviet ships have either been intercepted by U.S. warships or turned back of their own accord.† (source)

But my mind, as I have said, was brimful of Scripture, and some lines from Ephesians just then seemed to issue of their own accord in response to his blasphemy.† (source) Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders, 2001

Miraculously, he felt his legs move of their own accord as the man half-dragged, half-carried him toward the entrance.† (source) Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me, 2011

I keep my eyes closed, but when the Augur misses a step and nearly falls, they fly open of their own accord.† (source)

Getting Chelise out of her own accord might be far more difficult.† (source)

I took my baby out of the oven and held her mouth to catch the milk, which began to flow of its own accord.† (source)

But I don't give up hope, because some day you will look me up on your own accord and it will be different, for then you'll be ready.† (source) Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, 1952

I'll say that this change in me has happened of its own accord.† (source) Libba Bray, Sweet Far Thing, 2007

Celia grips the wicker armrests as if the entire swing would fly off of its own accord.† (source)

" Another voice called to "let us all with one accord sing praises to our heavenly Lord" and another, to "sleep in heavenly peace," but heaven and peace seemed so distant to me.† (source)

He reached for the elevator call button, but before his finger touched it, the doors slid open of their own accord, and Isabelle seemed to almost explode through them, her silvery-gold whip trailing behind her like the tail of a comet.† (source)

The crowning achievement was my mother's appearance at the Galle Face Dance as a lobster—the outfit bright red and covered with crustaceans and claws which grew out of her shoulder blades and seemed to move of their own accord.† (source)

Unless Mr. Goode is maintaining that Jimmy Skinner could fly of his own accord.† (source) David Baldacci, Wish You Well, 2001

Still, of their own accord — mysteriously!† (source) Gish Jen, Typical American, 1991

I come of my own accord.† (source) Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life, 1999

When I recall all the help Kali gave me with my first child, I am ashamed that I ever had such thoughts: my only excuse is that thoughts come of their own accord, although afterwards we can chase them away.† (source)

Mr. McLean, last week at retreat formation, someone came up behind me and said I had two weeks to leave the Institute of my own accord.† (source)

It may happen of its own accord-soon.† (source) Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light, 1967

The earth is stark-naked yet:
It hasn't got a stitch to wear of nights
To ring the bells, or to chime in
Of its own accord, with choirs singing.† (source) Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, 1958

Of all the things she resented about him, she resented most that he hadn't left of his own accord.† (source)

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accord as in: accord her the respect deserved

They expect to be accorded the same respect as any other nuclear armed nation.
accorded = given special treatment

They should accord her the same respect they expect for their own judicial nominees.
accord = give special treatment

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His lawyers demand he be accorded the status of a captured soldier rather than a spy.
accorded = given special treatment

He had been a great and fearless warrior in his time, and was now accorded great respect in all the clan. (source) Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, 1958
accorded = given (special treatment)

Everyone treated me with the deference accorded only to the school's top athletes. (source) Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, 2005
accorded = given

The men in Ofuna, said the Japanese, weren't POWs; they were "unarmed combatants" at war against Japan and, as such, didn't have the rights that international law accorded POWs. (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010
accorded = gave to (as a special privilege)

Her true role is less that of a queen than mother of the hive, a title often accorded to her. (source)
accorded = given (special treatment)

The locket was accorded this place of honor not because it was valuable - in all usual senses it was worthless - but because of what it had cost to attain it. (source)
accorded = giving special treatment

Estha and Rahel accorded the second third and the third third of the Meenachal the deference it deserved. (source)
accorded = gave special treatment to

At the time, a player as good as Jim was accorded nearly the same celebrity status across Big Creek district as... (source) Homer Hickam, October Sky, 1998
accorded = given special treatment

Miss Kenton, I believe you are according this matter an urgency it hardly merits. (source)
according = giving (special treatment)

Those who refused to sign were described as uncooperative, and denied privileges accorded to those who did sign. (source) Joy Kogawa, Obasan, 1981
accorded = given/gave special treatment

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The Took family was still, indeed, accorded a special respect, for it remained both numerous and exceedingly wealthy, and was liable to produce in every generation strong characters of peculiar habits and even adventurous temperament. (source)
accorded = giving special treatment

I accorded Elizabeth Barrister and Richard DeBlass respect and dignity. (source) J. D. Robb, Naked in Death, 1995
accorded = given/gave special treatment

You will remain a Mask, with all the respect and honor accorded to those of that title. (source)

...the first two names on the list were accorded status, while the rest were not, (source)

It is hard to understand how he could have been blind to the fact that the great death-happening wrought upon the European Jews by the Nazis would descend like a smothering fog around his compatriots—a people loathed with such ferocity that only the precedence of an even more urgent loathing accorded the Jews was a rampart against their own eventual obliteration. (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976
accorded = given (as special treatment not typically given to others)

This man wishes to be accorded the same privilege as a sponge! (source)
accorded = given (special treatment)

But now that he was married, he thought it only right that he and Lib have a room to themselves and the privacy accorded a married couple. (source) Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon, 1959

...this same type of treatment was accorded him by Stuart, (source)
accorded = given to (as a special treatment)

Even such scant civilities as Lily accorded to Mr. Rosedale would have made Miss Stepney her friend for life; (source) Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, 1905
accorded = gave respectfully

...every privilege, every attention shall be yours that I would accord a peer's daughter, if about to marry her. (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847
accord = give (as special treatment to)

He further gave me leave to accompany the prisoner to London; but declined to accord that grace to my two friends. (source)
accord = give special treatment

He accorded him a little lofty pity. (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862
accorded = gave (special treatment)

The raising of ghosts or devils was a promise liberally accorded by my favourite authors, the fulfilment of which I most eagerly sought; and if my incantations were always unsuccessful, I attributed the failure rather to my own inexperience and mistake than to a want of skill or fidelity in my instructors. (source) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818
accorded = given

But let us come to Alexander, who was a man of such great goodness, that among the other praises which are accorded him is this, that in the fourteen years he held the empire no one was ever put to death by him unjudged; (source) Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513
accorded = given (special treatment)

It was an occupation that accorded well with motherhood.† (source)

Fortunately this mindfulness accorded with her nature: it brought her the same depth of pleasure Carl had derived from nurturing his strawberries.† (source)

Four would rise through a central tower to an interior bridge 220 feet above the floor, which in turn would lead to an exterior promenade offering foot-tingling views of the distant Michigan shore, "a panorama," as one guidebook later put it, "such as never before has been accorded to mortals."† (source)

I guess that's why, when he inevitably succumbed to his most shocking injuries, they had accorded him that barbaric tribal finale.† (source) Marcus Luttrell, Lone Survivor, 2007

This thought accorded with the enthusiasm of the Liberals, especially the younger ones, who had succeeded in electing a president from their party after forty-five years of Conservative hegemony.† (source)

Then by the power granted to this council, we pass the privileges and responsibilities accorded to Ajihad to his only descendant, Nasuada.† (source) Christopher Paolini, Eldest, 2005

When they went down to the bunkhouse for dinner the vaqueros seemed to treat them with a certain deference but whether it was the deference accorded the accomplished or that accorded to mental defectives they were unsure.† (source)

He had never heard of anyone naming a snake before, but then nothing she did accorded with any procedure he was familiar with.† (source) Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove, 1985

In the days when she had had nine suitors kneeling round her in a circle, she guarded her nakedness apprehensively, as though trying to express the value of her body in terms of the modesty she accorded it.† (source)

She entertained me with accounts of your sentiments of human life, which accorded so perfectly with mine that it gave me great delight.† (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

Despite the occasional conflicts that arose, all of the races respected Arthur's lineage, and had accorded that respect to the Parliament during the years since the murder of the old king and his family.† (source)

They were accorded every right and afforded every comfort by Lieutenant Gedney.† (source) Alexs Pate, Amistad, 1997

Clarkebury was a Thembu college, founded on land given by the great Thembu king Ngubengcuka; as a descendant of Ngubengcuka, I presumed that I would be accorded the same deference at Clarkebury that I had come to expect in Mqhekezweni.† (source)

The second man was accorded preferential treatment.† (source)

The commissioner promises that his force will conduct a full and zealous investigation, and that the district attorney has accorded this case his highest priority.† (source) Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker, 1995

You are being accorded an honor, and you must not forget that Martha is the daughter of our beloved boss.† (source)

Mr. Goode, you could give a damn whether Louisa's affairs are accorded the respect they deserve.† (source) David Baldacci, Wish You Well, 2001

She was still surprised by the enthusiastic reception she was accorded.† (source) Ann Petry, Harriet Tubman, 1971

Peters seldom interrupted, seldom asked a question or made a comment, but when he did, he displayed a technical curiosity and expertise which entirely accorded with Leamas' own temperament.† (source)

the man to whom importance is accorded is... (source) Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, 1857
accorded = giving special treatment

...she was listened to with more consideration than was usually accorded to young women applicants, owing to her neat and attractive appearance. (source) Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, 1900
accorded = given (special treatment)

The minister—for, save the long-sought regards of woman, nothing is sweeter than these marks of childish preference, accorded spontaneously by a spiritual instinct, and therefore seeming to imply in us something truly worthy to be loved—the minister looked round, laid his hand on the child's head, hesitated an instant, and then kissed her brow. (source)
accorded = given

Having once explained to them that I could not now be explicit about my plans, they kindly and wisely acquiesced in the silence with which I pursued them, according to me the privilege of free action I should under similar circumstances have accorded them. (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

Having once explained to them that I could not now be explicit about my plans, they kindly and wisely acquiesced in the silence with which I pursued them, according to me the privilege of free action I should under similar circumstances have accorded them. (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847
according to = giving to

Men about to lose their heads and hands were not oft accorded such courtesies.† (source)

Birth and blood accorded him a seat upon the dais at the end of the high table, beside a wall.† (source)

Such tokens are accorded to us.† (source)

Which meant, he realized, that if they admired his feats in battle, then they may have accorded him the same status as one of their war chiefs.† (source) Christopher Paolini, Eldest, 2005

Actually he accorded President Bush the highest accolade, the gold-plated Congressional Medal of Honor awarded by the surf gods: He's a real dude, man, a real dude.† (source) Marcus Luttrell, Lone Survivor, 2007

If you were my student in Ilirea, before Galbatorix rose to power, you would have just graduated from your apprenticeship and would be considered a full member of our order and accorded the same rights and privileges as even the oldest Riders.† (source) Christopher Paolini, Eldest, 2005

Lord Dondarrion would have been within his rights to pull him off the horse and spank him, but the Prince of Dragonflies had taken pity on the addlepated boy in the ill-fitting armor and accorded him the respect of taking up his challenge.† (source)

Directly to the east, the Troll and Goblin armies had just marched back onto the battlefield at the center of the small valley and were expecting to participate in the wholesale slaughter accorded to overwhelmingly victorious armies.† (source)

Jefferson was unsparing: "Mr. Adams is vain, irritable, stubborn, endowed with excessive self-love, and still suffering pique at the preference accorded Franklin over him in Paris."† (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

A few days before the appeal opened, Senator John C. Calhoun, a Whig from South Carolina, proposed a resolution that in part read: If a ship should be forced by stress of weather or other cause into a port, she and her cargo, and persons on board, with their property, will be accorded all the rights belonging to their personal relations as established by the laws of the state to which they belong, and would be placed under protection of the laws of nations which are extended under such circumstances.† (source) Alexs Pate, Amistad, 1997

The shadow in which she sat, falling like a gloomy veil across her forehead, accorded very well with the character of her beauty.† (source) Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, 1857

In the first interview she accorded to Mr Meagles, she slided herself into the position of disconsolately but gracefully yielding to irresistible pressure.† (source) Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, 1857

He gave me a most amiable smile and this time a reply was accorded me.† (source) Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf, 1926

The group turned toward him and accorded him the politeness always due an outsider.† (source)

"It repents me to the heart," he said, "that you should think so, my lord Sir Gawaine, for I know that while you are against me I shall never more be accorded with the King."† (source)

Being poor white, they were not even accorded the grudging respect that Angus MacIntosh's dour independence wrung from neighboring families.† (source)

That treacherous beast must have known that if the marks of his teeth were ever seen on the innocent white flesh of her breasts, he would not have been accorded the high honor of sitting here in this court of law!† (source) Richard Wright, Native Son, 1940

Mr. President, Dr. Conant, members of the Board of Overseers, Ladies and Gentlemen: I'm profoundly grateful and touched by the great distinction and honor and great compliment accorded me by the authorities of Harvard this morning.† (source)

Mrs. Barton wagged her great head with the slow but emphatic approval she accorded all her son's opinions.† (source)

Everyone knew that Stuart Tarleton would have married her had he not been killed at Gettysburg, and so she was accorded the respect due a woman who had been wanted if not wed.† (source)

He proposed that we two go out and see if any help could be accorded the wounded.† (source)

The others accorded their interest, if not assent, by rising to advance toward Duane.† (source) Zane Grey, The Lone Star Ranger, 1915

Anna Pavlovna greeted him with the nod she accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room.† (source) Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, 1869

That evening the three Musketeers were informed of the honor accorded them.† (source)

The good-natured, careless look and gesture he threw the bystanders accorded well with the speech.† (source) Lew Wallace, Ben Hur, 1880

This promise was graciously accorded, and they separated upon great terms of amity.† (source)

When she was pink she was feeling less than when pale; her more perfect beauty accorded with her less elevated mood; her more intense mood with her less perfect beauty.† (source)

It was very satisfactory to find how well known Mr. Tanner was in the field of art, and to note the high standing which all classes accorded to him.† (source)

But though he did everything to alienate the sympathy of other boys he longed with all his heart for the popularity which to some was so easily accorded.† (source)

He accorded both.† (source) E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924

Not that I—a confirmed and, as Furuseth phrased it, a temperamental idealist—was to be compelled; but that Wolf Larsen stormed the last strongholds of my faith with a vigour that received respect, while not accorded conviction.† (source) Jack London, Sea Wolf, 1904

If the welcome accorded Tom by Burn and Dave had touched him, that given by their women folk reached deeply to his heart.† (source) Zane Grey, The Thundering Herd, 1925

There were grizzled outlaws in that group, some of whom had many notches on their gun-handles, and they, with their comrades, accorded Duane silence that carried conviction of the regard in which he was held.† (source) Zane Grey, The Lone Star Ranger, 1915

The lovers did not rise at milking-time, having through the whole of this last week of their sojourn at the dairy been accorded something of the position of guests, Tess being honoured with a room of her own.† (source)

He thought a while, and then went off into a seemingly alien observation which, however, accorded with their feelings.† (source) Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, 1900

Everything about him accorded with the fastidious element in her taste, even to the light irony with which he surveyed what seemed to her most sacred.† (source) Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, 1905

Their vague idealism, the suspicion of a philosophical idea which underlay the titles they gave their pictures, accorded very well with the functions of art as from his diligent perusal of Ruskin he understood it; but here was something quite different: here was no moral appeal; and the contemplation of these works could help no one to lead a purer and a higher life.† (source)

—I can't eat a mouthful of this stuff, you know," he added suddenly, pushing back his plate with a clouded countenance; and Lily, unfailingly adaptable, accorded her radiant attention to his prolonged denunciation of other people's cooks, with a supplementary tirade on the toxic qualities of melted butter.† (source) Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, 1905

He had not accorded them any virtues.† (source) Zane Grey, The Lone Star Ranger, 1915

That, in the first frantic greetings lavished on himself as a notable sufferer under the overthrown system, it had been accorded to him to have Charles Darnay brought before the lawless Court, and examined.† (source)

and when the Diplomatist called on the party, faithful to his promise, Jos received him with such a salute and honours as were seldom accorded to the little Envoy.† (source)

She must have appeared interesting in some way—not-withstanding her plain dress—or rather, possibly, in consequence of it, for she was a girl characterized by earnestness and soberness of mien, with which simple drapery accorded well.† (source)

Her appearance accorded well with this smouldering rebelliousness, and the shady splendour of her beauty was the real surface of the sad and stifled warmth within her.† (source)

Oak's motions, though they had a quiet-energy, were slow, and their deliberateness accorded well with his occupation.† (source)

'A message of pardon—of free forgiveness—was nevertheless accorded to these rebels; and to all who, humbly accepting it, molded their future lives to the will of the Great King (now revealed in a character even more gracious than before), was held out the promise of removal at last from among the ruins caused by the great rebellion, to the glory and undimmed splendor of the realm of Light and Blessedness.'† (source)

Nor (we must do him the further justice to say) did Judge Pyncheon himself, probably, entertain many or very frequent doubts, that his enviable reputation accorded with his deserts.† (source)

The moment this permission was accorded, the countenance of Uncas changed from its grave composure to a gleam of intelligence and joy.† (source)

He was in a great way of business; he had not the narrow notions of uncle Glegg; and he had risen in the world on a scale of advancement which accorded with Tom's ambition.† (source)

The commissary accorded Kovaloff a fairly frigid reception, saying that the afternoon was not the best time to come with a case, that nature required one to rest a little after eating (this showed the committee-man that the commissary was acquainted with the aphorisms of the ancient sages), and that respectable people did not have their noses stolen.† (source) Nikolai Gogol, The Nose, 1836

It seemed to him good and reasonable doctrine, and accorded well with the settled and thoughtful habit which he had acquired from the reading of that same book.† (source)

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