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  • She dresses in accordance with the latest fashions.
  • [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)
    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)
    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)
    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)
    according to = in agreement with
  • For the first week, everything went according to plan.   (source)
    according to = in keeping 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)
    accordance = keeping with
  • The officer had fallen asleep inside the car at the time, according to a police spokesperson.   (source)
    according to = as stated by
  • 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)
    accordance = keeping
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  • 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)
    according to = as stated by (in keeping with)
  • 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)
  • Lady, you and I are in accord.   (source)
    accord = agreement
  • At least according to Dave at lunchtime.   (source)
    according to = as stated by
  • That is according to your calendar, of course, which even you know isn't very accurate.   (source)
    according to = in keeping with
  • According to Gladiola, the westbound train leaves at noon.   (source)
    according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
  • According to what I seen in this here movie most the folks in Flint is Chinese.   (source)
    according to = in agreement with
  • For not organizing her things according to protocol.   (source)
    according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
  • even with all his impatience, he wanted to live his life in accordance with Muslim law.   (source)
    accordance = keeping with
  • Fortunately, among these people a man was judged according to his worth and not according to the worth of his father.   (source)
    according to = based upon
  • ...and her shirts hung in neat rows, arranged according to color.   (source)
    according to = based upon (in keeping with)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Hermann van Pels (van Daan) was, according to the testimony of Otto Frank, gassed to death in Auschwitz in October or November 1944, shortly before the gas chambers were dismantled.   (source)
    according to = as stated by
  • It doesn't help that, according to Six, I've already got a bit of a reputation just being associated with her.   (source)
  • According to TERRIBLE THINGS! hope sometimes got in the way of action.   (source)
  • 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)
  • each dose had been calculated according to body weight.   (source)
    according to = in proportion (based upon, or in keeping with)
  • ...to exercise the rights of sovereignty in accordance with the political and economic interests of neighboring France...   (source)
    accordance = keeping (or agreement)
  • 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)
  • However, according to Adam, there is...   (source)
    according to = as stated by
  • According to her plan, when she said "three," I was to charge the window.   (source)
    according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
  • 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)
    according to = based upon (in keeping with)
  • Like everybody else in Coalwood, I lived according to the rhythms set by the shifts.   (source)
    according to = in keeping with (or in harmony or agreement with)
  • 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)
  • 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)
    according to = based upon
  • According to the rumours, the resettlement 'action' was to start on Sunday night.   (source)
    according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
  • 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
  • Only then will you be acting in accordance with the moral law within you.   (source)
  • There was some question, according to the adults, as to whether they were his real cousins or not,   (source)
    according to = as stated by
  • According to Sinita, Trujillo became president in a sneaky way.   (source)
    according to = as stated by; or 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
  • Her classmates thought she was crazy and treated her accordingly.   (source)
    accordingly = in keeping with what was just stated
  • Tonight they were being fed in accordance with the work they had done.   (source)
    accordance = keeping with
  • In accordance with the sentence of the court, Smith and Hickock were scheduled to visit the warehouse six weeks hence:   (source)
  • ...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)
    accordingly = in consequence
  • 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)
    according to = as stated by (in keeping with)
  • The only snag comes when the woman at the cashier—Irma, according to her name tag—asks to see my ID.   (source)
    according to = as stated by
  • In accordance with New Order 15, President Gray issued an arrest warrant for all persons involved with this dangerous activity….   (source)
    accordance = keeping
  • According to court documents, when he found Hispanic-looking people on his land, he held them at gunpoint and threatened to kill them.   (source)
    according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
  • Things always work according to their nature.   (source)
    according to = in keeping with (or in agreement with)
  • 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
  • They'd been organized according to color and style.   (source)
    according to = based on (in keeping with)
  • Let's just say it's a lot and you two personally can count on six figures, if everything goes according to the book.   (source)
    according to = in keeping 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)
    accord = agree (or match)
  • Prioritize the following strategic components according to their importance in the scenario described above:   (source)
    according to = based upon (in keeping with)
  • This was in accordance with the Third Law of Motion according to Sir Isaac Newton.   (source)
    accordance = in agreement with
  • I am fully aware of it and I am acting accordingly.   (source)
    accordingly = in keeping with or in agreement with what was just stated
  • 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
  • It was difficult to see how these calves would grow according to Josiah's theories.   (source)
    according to = in keeping with (based upon)
  • The foundation for the new house was prepared according to the blueprints which the Bishop sent,   (source)
    according to = based upon (in keeping with)
  • These officers will act in accordance with their best judgment, under the proclamation of martial law.   (source)
    accordance = in keeping with or in agreement with
  • this was not in accordance with the Charter.   (source)
    accordance = keeping with; or agreement with
  • I have to act according to my conscience.   (source)
    according to = based upon (in agreement with)
  • A robot is a machine which carries out certain operations in accordance with a program of instructions.   (source)
    accordance = keeping 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)
  • I think it's reasonable to sit according to number.   (source)
  • 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)
    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
  • But what we are here for is to try such accidents, according to law.   (source)
    according to = in keeping with (based upon)
  • Each one speaks according to his manner.   (source)
  • 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
  • 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)
    according to = based upon (in keeping with)
  • 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)
  • Somehow his words and his look did not seem to accord,   (source)
    accord = agree (go together)
  • Miss Barry put us in the spare room, according to promise.   (source)
    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)
    according to = depending upon (in keeping with)
  • ...bought into the Pack according to the Law of the Jungle.   (source)
    according to = in keeping with (based upon)
  • 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
  • limited her stay to a number of minutes that should accord with the highest respectability.   (source)
    accord = be in keeping with
  • You arranged everything according to your own taste,   (source)
    according to = in keeping with (based upon)
  • we must try to re-arrange our lives in accordance with that fact.   (source)
    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)
    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)
  • I wished to see whether her appearance accorded with Mrs. Fairfax's description;   (source)
    accorded = was in agreement
  • 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)
    according to = as stated by
  • and according to his scheme they were carried out,   (source)
    according to = in keeping with (as stated in)
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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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • What about the Geneva Accords? ... America was divided on these and a thousand other issues...   (source)
    accords = agreements
  • Valentine never killed a creature who had not broken the Accords, but he did other things.   (source)
  • On that point they were in accord, for Dick had said, "If we get caught, let's get caught together."   (source)
    accord = agreement
  • Not banned by international accord?   (source)
  • 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
  • Being all in perfect accord with their own wives?   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Possibly it accords too well.†   (source)
  • If you know your own history, Garzhvog, then you know it has always been so when Urgals sign peace accords.†   (source)
  • "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.
  • Ironically, with his insurrection Valentine made the Accords possible.†   (source)
  • By that time the Clave had surrounded the Hall of Accords.†   (source)
  • Look, everyone's in Idris for the Accords, and anyway, they'd insist on coming with us.†   (source)
  • So that's the attitude of the Clave, a week after the Accords?" said Pete with disgust.†   (source)
  • Their plan was to wait for the Downworlders to arrive in Idris to sign the Accords.†   (source)
  • Murderers, renegade vampires, Shadowhunters who break the Accords.†   (source)
  • A few hundred years of the Accords can't wipe out a thousand years of hostility.†   (source)
  • "I'm sure she doesn't know what the Accords are, Jace," said Isabelle around her spoon.†   (source)
  • After such wholesale slaughter, the Accords would fail.†   (source)
  • We're here and because of the Accords, nobody else is.†   (source)
  • The Accords have never had the support of the whole Clave.†   (source)
  • There will be no Accords and no Covenant soon enough.†   (source)
  • I can only hope it does not disrupt the Accords.†   (source)
  • I heard that he had argued passionately in the Clave against the Accords, but with no success.†   (source)
  • Yet another round in the endless verbosity about the Accords.†   (source)
  • "What you did in the Hall of Accords," Aline said.†   (source)
  • Not to bend to the Accords, not to follow an outside Law.†   (source)
  • "The Accords apply to vamps and lycanthropes with clear affiances," interrupted Jace.†   (source)
  • She was sitting in a high seat on the dais in the Accords Hall, Simon by her side.†   (source)
  • That the UK had called you in for consultation on the Accords.†   (source)
  • They got to the Accords Hall pretty fast when you triggered that alarm.†   (source)
  • If they decide you're a spy, then the Accords don't apply.†   (source)
  • We are jointly pleased to announce that further progress has been made with regard to the Accords.†   (source)
  • Get them to rethink the new Accords, perhaps.†   (source)
  • You pursue your "outrageous" accusations, he pulls Peking out of the Hong Kong Accords.†   (source)
  • And I'm not sure she'd be keen to get caught breaking the Accords like that.†   (source)
  • Clary sat on the steps of the dais in the Hall of Accords, holding the stele in her hands.†   (source)
  • "I don't want to hide in the Accords Hall.†   (source)
  • The space inside the Hall of Accords had been swiftly reconfigured since the night of the battle.†   (source)
  • The lease runs out in barely a decade, which is why the new accords were negotiated with Peking.†   (source)
  • And now he's been instrumental with all the new Accords stuff.†   (source)
  • The bottles broke, when we were fighting the demons in the Accords Hall.†   (source)
  • Peking would pull out of the Accords, blaming Taiwan and the West for messing around.†   (source)
  • Luke and Amatis are at the Accords Hall, having another meeting.†   (source)
  • She was looking at the inside of the Accords Hall.†   (source)
  • She remembered the way he had held her on the steps of the Accords Hall in Idris.†   (source)
  • Clary recognized the inside of the Hall of Accords the moment she entered it.†   (source)
  • Through it Clary could see the hazy outlines of the Hall of Accords.†   (source)
  • They broke the Accords—they cared nothing for the Law.†   (source)
  • He saw her there on the dais in the Accords Hall.†   (source)
  • The Hall of Accords was lit like a bonfire, witchlight pouring out of its doors and windows.†   (source)
  • They were standing in an enormous entryway, the size of the inside of the Accords Hall.†   (source)
  • A moment later she was out of the house, hurrying down the canal path toward the Accords Hall.†   (source)
  • Without us watching, with Downworld turning against us, the Accords will fall apart.†   (source)
  • The Accords you dreaded so much didn't make Downworlders equal to Nephilim.†   (source)
  • The Accords Hall itself was dark and shut tight.†   (source)
  • And given our new cooperation with Downworlders, we will have to rely on them to keep the Accords.†   (source)
  • Clary sat on the top step of the Accords Hall, looking out over Angel Square.†   (source)
  • Though he is a faerie, he and his huntsmen are not involved with the Accords.†   (source)
  • You can see why there's so much opposition to the Accords.†   (source)
  • The Hall of Accords was draped with the blue banners of victory.†   (source)
  • She caught glimpses of the inside of the Accords Hall as she reached the steps and walked up them.†   (source)
  • The inside of the Accords Hall was both familiar and unfamiliar.†   (source)
  • And that means nobody carries Tavvy to the Accords Hall, and nobody protects Livvy or Ty or Dru.†   (source)
  • She saw the floor of the Accords Hall, hard marble veined with gold, before she hit it.†   (source)
  • In her favour, much of what she's told him accords with her printed Confession; but is that really in her favour?†   (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)
  • It was the year of the Accords, and all of Downworld was abuzz about them and Valentine's probable plans for disrupting them.†   (source)
  • He and his group, the Circle, killed dozens of their brethren along with hundreds of Downworlders during the last Accords.†   (source)
  • They don't like you much, whatever the Accords might say—and there's nothing in the Covenant about not killing animals.†   (source)
  • On the day of the Accords, I watched from a hidden place as Jocelyn and Valentine left the manor house.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He didn't approve of the Accords.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Did the Accords get signed?†   (source)
  • Because of the Accords.†   (source)
  • Blue for the Accords.†   (source)
  • She never agreed to the new Accords.†   (source)
  • She remembered the day of her wedding to Valentine, the sun bright and clear through the crystal roof of the Accords Hall.†   (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)
  • Hong Kong, Kowloon, Macao and all the territories are part of their so-called "great nation under heaven", even the China Accords make that clear.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
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  • After the fight, he turned himself in of his own accord.
  • How dare you, woman, to go before the mighty Agbala of your own accord?   (source)
    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)
    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)
    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)
    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)
  • My son came of his own accord.   (source)
    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
  • 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)
    own accord = own mind (voluntarily)
  • So we'll leave of our own accord and not wait to be hauled away.   (source)
    own accord = own mind (on her own)
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  • But she didn't get the chance to knock. The door swung open of its own accord.   (source)
    own accord = own mind -- voluntarily (without anyone asking)
  • 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)
  • She stopped talking two days before her voice faded of its own accord.   (source)
    own accord = own mind
  • With one accord Father and I turned around and walked after him.   (source)
    one accord = one mind (chose the same action without discussing it)
  • 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)
    own accord = own mind (without her telling it to do so)
  • 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)
  • 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)
    own accord = own mind -- voluntarily (without anyone asking)
  • 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)
    own accord = own mind (voluntarily without anyone making it do so)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • So I figured, wherever they were, they weren't there of their own accord.   (source)
    own accord = own mind (voluntarily)
  • 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)
    own accord = own mind (without her telling it to)
  • He was probably glad to see that I had come back of my own accord, as I had promised.   (source)
    own accord = own mind (voluntarily)
  • Hazel went out of his own accord, to distract their attention while we got away.   (source)
    own accord = own mind (voluntarily without anyone asking)
  • 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)
  • ...at some point her lethargy dissipated of its own accord and...   (source)
    own accord = own mind (on its own--without her telling it to)
  • ...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)
  • Let it open by itself and come back of its own accord.   (source)
    own accord = own mind (i.e., voluntarily)
  • I would have had more faith if she'd gone of her own accord.   (source)
    own accord = own mind (voluntarily -- without anyone asking)
  • And yet the instant that he allowed his thoughts to wander, his feet had brought him back here of their own accord.   (source)
    own accord = own mind (without his telling them to--as though they had a mind of their own)
  • They decided with one accord, without even a whisper, to...   (source)
    one accord = one mind
  • You, I understand, went to the police of your own accord?   (source)
    own accord = own mind (voluntarily)
  • As of one accord, we moved toward each other and embraced.   (source)
    one accord = one mind (in agreement)
  • 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)
  • 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)
    own accord = voluntarily (without someone asking)
  • she left you of her own accord   (source)
    own accord = own mind (voluntarily without anyone asking or making her)
  • ...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)
  • 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)
  • Widowed and orphaned families had no need to summon him; he came of his own accord.   (source)
    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)
  • Shake me off, then, sir, -- push me away, for I'll not leave you of my own accord.   (source)
    own accord = voluntarily
  • 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 words had poured out of Tally of their own accord.†   (source)
  • You cannot leave the palace of your own accord.†   (source)
  • But Dumbledore thinks Fudge is acting of his own accord at the moment — which, as Dumbledore says, is not a lot of comfort.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • For another, I thought, you gave it away of your own accord.†   (source)
  • Her feet moved of their own accord toward him, then past, back to the woods.†   (source)
  • He wanted to know if we had stayed in the hut of our own accord or if the owner knew about us.†   (source)
  • Gradually, he felt Langdon's body sink, on its own accord, to the bottom.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Catelyn's animal followed of its own accord.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • "Other side," he said, when I, feet moving of their own accord, followed him again.†   (source)
  • Pieces of debris that he could not have moved normally now seemed to shift on their own accord.†   (source)
  • My eyes, of their own accord, flickered to him.†   (source)
  • So on her own accord, she called Ahmad one day and asked him to take his younger brother with him.†   (source)
  • Unnecessary because Isabelle quickly latched onto the instrument of her own accord and unfeasible because the cello made Pari's hands ache.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • It rolled up of its own accord.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • It's like a window that will simply open of its own accord.†   (source)
  • "He didn't steal the cows, they followed him out of the barn of their own accord."†   (source)
  • Were they here of their own accord?†   (source)
  • 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)
  • I keep my eyes closed, but when the Augur misses a step and nearly falls, they fly open of their own accord.†   (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)
  • Newt ate another of his own accord and Deets ate four or five more.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Miraculously, he felt his legs move of their own accord as the man half-dragged, half-carried him toward the entrance.†   (source)
  • Getting Chelise out of her own accord might be far more difficult.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • If the horse died of his own accord, so be it.†   (source)
  • Celia grips the wicker armrests as if the entire swing would fly off of its own accord.†   (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)
  • The axe in her hand seemed to swing forward of its own accord, sinking deep into the creature's chest.†   (source)
  • At least a dozen Soviet ships have either been intercepted by U.S. warships or turned back 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)
  • 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)
  • I'll say that this change in me has happened of its own accord.†   (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)
  • I come of my own accord.†   (source)
  • Unless Mr. Goode is maintaining that Jimmy Skinner could fly of his own accord.†   (source)
  • Still, of their own accord — mysteriously!†   (source)
  • 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)
  • It may happen of its own accord-soon.†   (source)
  • 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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  • His lawyers demand he be accorded the status of a captured soldier rather than a spy.
  • He had been a great and fearless warrior in his time, and was now accorded great respect in all the clan.   (source)
    accorded = given (special treatment)
  • Everyone treated me with the deference accorded only to the school's top athletes.   (source)
    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)
    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
  • At the time, a player as good as Jim was accorded nearly the same celebrity status across Big Creek district as...   (source)
    accorded = given 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
  • Miss Kenton, I believe you are according this matter an urgency it hardly merits.   (source)
    according = giving (special treatment)
  • You will remain a Mask, with all the respect and honor accorded to those of that title.   (source)
    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
  • Those who refused to sign were described as uncooperative, and denied privileges accorded to those who did sign.   (source)
    accorded = given/gave special treatment
  • ...the first two names on the list were accorded status, while the rest were not,   (source)
  • I accorded Elizabeth Barrister and Richard DeBlass respect and dignity.   (source)
  • 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)
    accorded = given (special treatment)
  • 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)
    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)
  • ...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)
    accorded = gave respectfully
  • 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)
    accorded = gave (special treatment)
  • ...every privilege, every attention shall be yours that I would accord a peer's daughter, if about to marry her.   (source)
    accord = give as special treatment to
  • 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)
    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)
    accorded = given (special treatment)
  • the man to whom importance is accorded is...   (source)
    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)
    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
  • This was accorded with more good-will than it was accepted:   (source)
    accorded = given (special treatment)
  • ...he accorded him his pardon with a clemency which...   (source)
    accorded = gave (as a special privilege)
  • Thanks be to heaven for the favour it accords me,   (source)
    accords = gives to (as special treatment)
  • And this accordeth with the fifth Commandement.†   (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She accordeth" in older English, today we say "She accords."
  • *slovenly Why is thy lord so sluttish, I thee pray, And is of power better clothes to bey,* *buy If that his deed accordeth with thy speech?†   (source)
  • Servage? nay, but in lordship all above, Since he had both his lady and his love: His lady certes, and his wife also, The which that law of love accordeth to.†   (source)
  • In which sense there is nothing that accordeth not with the rest of Holy Scripture, or any glimpse of the fire of Purgatory.†   (source)
  • saith, "There be three that bear witnesse in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these Three are One:" But this disagreeth not, but accordeth fitly with three Persons in the proper signification of Persons; which is, that which is Represented by another.†   (source)
  • The English Translation before mentioned, following that of Geneva, has, "a Kingdome of Priests;" which is either meant of the succession of one High Priest after another, or else it accordeth not with St. Peter, nor with the exercise of the High Priesthood; For there was never any but the High Priest onely, that was to informe the People of Gods Will; nor any Convocation of Priests ever allowed to enter into the Sanctum Sanctorum.†   (source)
  • ...won him warmer affection than was accorded to any of his professional contemporaries.   (source)
    accorded = given
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  • It was an occupation that accorded well with motherhood.†   (source)
  • Our desires are in accord.†   (source)
  • But then Mr. Loski started grilling Matt and Mike about how they'd afforded to accord their own music, and they explained about working and saving and shopping for good deals on equipment, and that's when I realized why my father was proud.†   (source)
  • Barely twelve hours after he had been escorted from the courtroom, rumor had it that he was rearranging life behind bars to accord with his personal tastes.†   (source)
  • He was following an ancient prescription for marital accord: silence, order, authority.†   (source)
  • Still, she found time, as she was about to leave, to return to the dressing table and apply her perfume to the points of her elbows, a playful touch in accord with her mood as she closed the door of her bedroom behind her.†   (source)
  • "For a certainty," Ned said, and Ser Barristan Selmy bowed his head in silent accord.†   (source)
  • I guess that's why, when he inevitably succumbed to his most shocking injuries, they had accorded him that barbaric tribal finale.†   (source)
  • In accord with the wheel's operating procedures, the conductor had locked the door at the start of the ride.†   (source)
  • If you are driving into Griffith Park for some highjinks and you see a NO OUTLET sign, you know that it is time to shift your dad's Accord into reverse and drive it backward all the way back home, revving the engine way past the end of the tachometer.†   (source)
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  • A factory's throughput is the speed and volume of its flow — a much more crucial measurement, accord- ing to Chandler, than the number of workers it employs or the value of its machinery.†   (source)
  • I'll pour us some tea, and you return to the planet, d'accord?†   (source)
  • But we were in accord, at least for now.†   (source)
  • Those are official Accord robes, aren't they?†   (source)
  • But I can't tie his buggy to my Honda Accord and tow it to my house, I tell him.†   (source)
  • They found the Captain in the dining room, in a disheveled condition that did not accord with his habitual neatness: he was unshaven, his eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep, his clothing was still sweaty from the previous night, his speech was interrupted by belches of anisette.†   (source)
  • There existed an accord of some sort between Kynes and Tuek.†   (source)
  • Fortunately this mindfulness accorded with her nature: it brought her the same depth of pleasure Carl had derived from nurturing his strawberries.†   (source)
  • I cannot get into bed with a man unless I'm in some state of accord with him.†   (source)
  • That doesn't accord with his character at all.†   (source)
  • And then did we seek to be included in their accord, as well we might have …. as was our right?†   (source)
  • But as far as I could tell, Inkatha never made any effort to implement the accord, and there were violations as well on our own side.†   (source)
  • So they sold the Cadillac and bought a Honda Accord.†   (source)
  • As he pulled his 2005 Honda Accord onto the shoulder and waited for the officer to approach, Chime held out hope that it had all been a misunderstanding and that he'd soon be on his way.†   (source)
  • In silent accord, the two boys stepped to the edge of the tracks, their feet still on the westward rail, balancing.†   (source)
  • The world — much as we want it to — does not accord with our intuition.†   (source)
  • Tara starts to pull in behind the Accord, but I tap her shoulder and gesture for her to keep going.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • The smoking lamp was out by mutual accord before anyone made an order of it.†   (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)
  • And yet, my friends, good things have also happened in this traumatic century: the defeat of Nazism, the collapse of communism, the rebirth of Israel on its ancestral soil, the demise of apartheid, Israel's peace treaty with Egypt, the peace accord in Ireland.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • In the end, the doctors were all in accord.†   (source)
  • "They will be like a pair of mandarin ducks," I said, relieved that we had come to such an easy agreement, though I'm sure we were both hoping that our matched characters would make up for the fact that the girls' eight characters were not so perfectly in accord.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • A Honda Accord speeding on a back highway somewhere.†   (source)
  • L77 ACCORD THESE MEN ZED KAPPA STATUS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE END MESSAGE END MESSAGE In theory, this cable was also quite routine; its purpose was to name the five members who were being given Zed Kappa status, the code for "OK* status.†   (source)
  • D'accord, mon ami, but never let the Irish nuns hear us.†   (source)
  • To THE DIPLOMATIC TASKS at hand, Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson, the old Revolutionary trio, gave due attention, working steadily and ineasy accord.†   (source)
  • I know that you will give him all the courtesy you accord me, and be respectful of the very young age of his host.†   (source)
  • It was one of those things that seem ordained, in such proper accord with the law of nature and our own desires, that we felt we had always known it.†   (source)
  • "We are in accord, Your Majesty?" she asked.†   (source)
  • If we take the seats out of the Camry, and the wheels off the Bug, and the battery out of the Caddy, and then we get the steering wheel from the Accord, and we drop that engine back into the Echo and hook up a new air filter, we could just take the Echo and be good to go.†   (source)
  • But despite these generous terms, Rowan has violated almost every provision of the accord.†   (source)
  • You are being accorded an honor, and you must not forget that Martha is the daughter of our beloved boss.†   (source)
  • You will never bring them all into accord.†   (source)
  • They were accorded every right and afforded every comfort by Lieutenant Gedney.†   (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)
  • It's a silver Honda Accord, not new, but still in nice condition.†   (source)
  • She was still surprised by the enthusiastic reception she was accorded.†   (source)
  • Mr. Goode, you could give a damn whether Louisa's affairs are accorded the respect they deserve.†   (source)
  • Under the rules of the Franco-Israeli operational accord, the decision to proceed was supposed to be a joint one.†   (source)
  • Two downstage left and right are curved to accord with the circle.†   (source)
  • ") My revulsion turned to grief that my own people could give the hate stare, could shrivel men's souls, could deprive humans of rights they unhesitatingly accord their livestock.†   (source)
  • I had a feeling that these had not been used in full accord with their author's intention.†   (source)
  • Despite the respect accorded Annie, no one else in Morrisonville held my mother's radical view.†   (source)
  • 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 living language of our time, born spontaneously and naturally in accord with its spirit, is the language of urban-ism.†   (source)
  • …of his political utterances…… The opposition to him in Alabama, because of the strength and the openness of his convictions, had grown to a point where his renomination was plainly not possible without the kind of fight he felt unwilling to make…… Had Senator Underwood played the game in Alabama in accord with the sound political rule of seeming to say something without doing so, there would have been no real opposition to his remaining in the Senate for the balance of his life.†   (source)
  • See her dress-the fold is caught in the tomb-door-delicato, you accord?†   (source)
  • Jubilation at this "sign of profound accord" proved premature.†   (source)
  • There can be no mistake, Aemon has had letters from the Citadel, findings in accord with his own.†   (source)
  • "That doesn't really accord with the principles of a society governed by the rule of law."†   (source)
  • Men about to lose their heads and hands were not oft accorded such courtesies.†   (source)
  • The one way to prevent that and to forge a meaningful accord was to link our two races with magic.†   (source)
  • "But I will hold back for the sake of a peace accord!" shouted Qurong.†   (source)
  • The second man was accorded preferential treatment.†   (source)
  • Somehow it does not accord with intuition.†   (source)
  • Birth and blood accorded him a seat upon the dais at the end of the high table, beside a wall.†   (source)
  • By morning the Accord will be long gone and Evans will be with BoneMan.†   (source)
  • These were organized shortly after the recognition of the superpower arms stalemate and the signing of the classified Spheres of Influence Accord, which left the superpowers free to deal, unhampered by interference, with the growing number of rebellions within their own empires.†   (source)
  • Langdon shrugged in accord.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • The experiment was abandoned after the Spheres of Influence Accord, because the virus was considered too uncontrollable and therefore too dangerous by many, although some wished to sprinkle it over India.†   (source)
  • In reply to questions about the status of Czecho-Slovakia under the Accord, he stated that in his opinion the citizens of that country had been guaranteed sufficient safe-guards.†   (source)
  • Oui… oui… d'accord.†   (source)
  • D 'accord, d'accord.†   (source)
  • The city's papers made repeated reference to her penchant for acting in accord with "her own sweet will."†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Such tokens are accorded to us.†   (source)
  • The Victoria's commander ordered the ship to proceed full speed toward shore, intending to ground her there in accord with standing fleet orders meant to make it easier to raise a sunken ship.†   (source)
  • But there are more profound points of accord between the Kitab al-Ibar of the Fremen and the teachings of Bible, Ilm, and Fiqh.†   (source)
  • GRIFFEN LAUDS MUNICH ACCORD   (source)
  • Soon patrolmen under the command of Captain Horace Elliott began making regular walks past the store, where in accord with custom they stopped to chat with the young and personable owner.†   (source)
  • It was significant, said Mr. Griffen, that all parties in the British House of Commons cheered the news, and he hoped that all parties in Canada would also cheer, as this accord would put paid to the Depression and would usher in a new "golden era" of peace and prosperity.†   (source)
  • Workers laid foundations of immense timbers in crisscrossed layers in accord with Root's grillage principle, then used steam-powered derricks to raise the tall posts of iron and steel that formed each building's frame.†   (source)
  • "We did not hear any "ancestral voices prophesying war," as all was sweet accord, thanks to the firmly-guiding hand of Mrs. Winifred Griffen Prior, the Ball's convenor, ravishing in scarlet and gold as a Princess from Rajistan.†   (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)
  • In a vigorous and hard-hitting speech entitled "Minding Our Own Business," delivered at the Wednesday meeting of the Empire Club in Toronto, Mr. Richard E. Griffen, President and Chairman of Griffen-Chase-Royal Consolidated Industries Ltd., praised the outstanding efforts of the British Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, which have resulted in last week's Munich Accord.†   (source)
  • In accord with your last instructions, I took the liberty of hiring a friend, a friend with a sound automobile.†   (source)
  • If they should come to some accord—†   (source)
  • Brian bought a package of condoms to give to his son David, a buddy-buddy thing, a token of communication and accord.†   (source)
  • He had promised her to send her to finish her studies in Brussels, in accord with a custom established during the time of the banana company, and that illusion had brought him to attempt to revive the lands devastated by the deluge.†   (source)
  • We recognize that you did not strike this accord and that it must grieve you to bid farewell to so bright a pupil.†   (source)
  • And it's striking to me—almost unacceptably so—how not awful it is to have passed all these years, with a host of all manner of difficult feelings, and have between us now such mild and mature accord.†   (source)
  • …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)
  • And I assume that due to foreign entanglements you're working backwards into a domestic conspiracy that should be incontestably established before you alert the guardians of domestic accord, namely, the Federal Bureau.†   (source)
  • He prized the Roman ideal of honor, and in this, as in much else, he and Abigail were in perfect accord.†   (source)
  • The enemy ships sailed abreast less than a mile away, their oars moving in perfect accord, two fins of water flying from each prow as they plowed the ocean.†   (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)
  • Belwas, you will accord all respect to my people, or you will leave my service sooner than you'd wish, and with more scars than when you came."†   (source)
  • 22 miles or not, I will not be seen getting out of my mom's maroon 2003 Accord, which she won't trade in because she says it's "fuel efficient").†   (source)
  • "D'accord," the brother answered, throwing his cigarette over the side and sliding down to the deck on top of a net "A little sleep won't hurt."†   (source)
  • A climate change accord was signed, a famous pop star released a long-awaited album, China's stock market collapsed, and soon the world forgot.†   (source)
  • 'To oppose our leaders,' said the orator, his voice calm but rising, 'is to vilify them, and, by so doing, to remove the care one must accord the precious gift called life.†   (source)
  • "Are you saying it would be easier to reach an accord with Attolia if we didn't hold her to marriage?"†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Despite the basilisk stares of Eddis's minister of war, a military accord was reached in a matter of days.†   (source)
  • Then by the power granted to this council, we pass the privileges and responsibilities accorded to Ajihad to his only descendant, Nasuada.†   (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)
  • A camper had found the white Honda Accord Ryan had stolen in a small campground called Crow's Nest Ranch in western Texas yesterday.†   (source)
  • Their first order of business was to hammer out a basic operational accord, a blueprint for how the two services would work together, a division of labor and authority, the rules of the road.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • I get to borrow my mom's Accord sometimes; poor Elody has to make do with her father's ancient tan Ford Taurus, which hardly runs anymore.†   (source)
  • Twice before, when the codes were transmitted and in accord with the maximum alert that was in force, the technician had phoned the gates of "Israel" and "Italy" and was told that only a fuel truck had passed through.†   (source)
  • D'accord.†   (source)
  • Those two were in complete accord and happy to spend their days discussing the exchange of pig iron and wool for olives and wine.†   (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)
  • Adams is vain, irritable, stubborn, endowed with excessive self-love, and still suffering pique at the preference accorded Franklin over him in Paris.†   (source)
  • They also knew that Ryan had taken Johnson's keys and that his white Honda Accord was missing from the parking lot out back.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • D'accord.†   (source)
  • In accord with Uncle Hal's master plan, Uncle Charlie had come to live with us as soon as we'd moved in.†   (source)
  • Only in the buds that spotted it all over like drops of candle grease there was something not in accord with the rest, something superfluous, some disturbance, perhaps dirt or an inflammation causing them to swell, and the disturbance, superfluity, and dirt were the signs of life, which had already set the most forward of the trees on fire with its green leafy flame.†   (source)
  • It is not in accord with his psychology-not at all.†   (source)
  • In structure and general layout it seems in accord with all I've heard about it.†   (source)
  • He gave me a most amiable smile and this time a reply was accorded me.†   (source)
  • The enmity that never knew friendship Can sooner know accord.†   (source)
  • The group turned toward him and accorded him the politeness always due an outsider.†   (source)
  • As the train came on to the Williamsburg Bridge after leaving Marcy Avenue station, Francie noticed that many people seated in the car rose as if in accord and then sat down again.†   (source)
  • This was something Simon well understood, how to be liked, and how to reach an accord on the basis of secret thoughts with people similarly placed.†   (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)
  • Mrs. Barton wagged her great head with the slow but emphatic approval she accorded all her son's opinions.†   (source)
  • With one common accord we ran to the council chamber; the clock there marked the hour as ten minutes past.†   (source)
  • We are of accord.†   (source)
  • Since his entire personality had been brought into accord with the powers and forms of timelessness, all of him stood to be refuted, blasted, by the impact of the forms and powers of time.†   (source)
  • A handful of men (he was not an officer: I think that was the only point on which father and old Cinthy were ever in accord: that grandfather wore no sword, galloped with no sword waving in front of the rest of them) performing with the grim levity of schoolboys a prank so foolhardy that the troops who had opposed them for four years did not believe' that even they would have attempted it.†   (source)
  • I'm overwhelmed, as a matter of fact, and I'm rather fearful of my inability to maintain such a high rating as you've been generous enough to accord to me.†   (source)
  • If it please mine uncle, King Arthur, to accord with him, then the King will lose my service and that of all the Gael.†   (source)
  • For the present they were quite satisfied to be in accord again about one girl, for they had no jealousies between them.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • You are all in accord?†   (source)
  • Being poor white, they were not even accorded the grudging respect that Angus MacIntosh's dour independence wrung from neighboring families.†   (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)
  • 'Saint, unclose thy portals holy and accord the bliss, to a mortal bending lowly, of a pardon-kiss.'†   (source)
  • The boy's soul was steeped in melancholy; his feelings were in happy accord with his surroundings.†   (source)
  • My own idleness was quite in accord with my system, but the luck broke.†   (source)
  • What had put her in accord with ordinary people?†   (source)
  • And in such cases the medical profession is in accord.†   (source)
  • I have never seen body and spirit in such perfect accord.†   (source)
  • Outlaws were not in accord with the few ranchers and their cowboys who ranged there.†   (source)
  • When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.†   (source)
  • Feeling herself in antagonism, she was quite in accord.†   (source)
  • And to leave her in farmland would be to let her slip back again out of accord with him.†   (source)
  • The others accorded their interest, if not assent, by rising to advance toward Duane.†   (source)
  • This promise was graciously accorded, and they separated upon great terms of amity.†   (source)
  • I felt at the very commencement as if I were not going to accord with the atmosphere.†   (source)
  • I find him accord with my digestion and my bilious system.†   (source)
  • This mode of procedure was but little in accord with Javert's habits.†   (source)
  • "May I hope, sir," said Madame de Villefort, "that your intentions accord with my request?"†   (source)
  • The good-natured, careless look and gesture he threw the bystanders accorded well with the speech.†   (source)
  • He proposed that we two go out and see if any help could be accorded the wounded.†   (source)
  • Anna Pavlovna greeted him with the nod she accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room.†   (source)
  • And yet, in accord with theories she believed right, she wanted to make herself in love with him.†   (source)
  • But your ideas and mine never accord, and you will not give way.†   (source)
  • Is't not his heart's accord, urged outward far and dim, To wind the world in unison with him?†   (source)
  • "Certainly that is most in accord with your own principles," replied Milady, frigidly.†   (source)
  • It is not mercy, then, that you are about to accord, sire, it is justice.†   (source)
  • Science and superstition were in accord, in horror.†   (source)
  • To you, perhaps, they will accord the time they have refused to me.†   (source)
  • This Strongylion left but two statues which placed Nero and Brutus in accord.†   (source)
  • Are you also in accord with Spain and England, with Madame de Chevreuse and the queen?†   (source)
  • That evening the three Musketeers were informed of the honor accorded them.†   (source)
  • As it often happens, nature seemed to have fallen into accord with what men were about to do.†   (source)
  • Always until then, as is common among men whose taste for the fine arts develops independently of their sensuality, a grotesque disparity had existed between the satisfactions which he would accord to either taste simultaneously; yielding to the seduction of works of art which grew more and more subtle as the women in whose company he enjoyed them grew more illiterate and common, he would take a little servant-girl to a screened box in a theatre where there was some decadent piece…†   (source)
  • Speaking judiciously, as one related to the church by marriage, Mrs. Warren gave verdict: "I'm sure we're all heartily in accord with Mrs. Kennicott in feeling that wherever genuine poverty is encountered, it is not only noblesse oblige but a joy to fulfil our duty to the less fortunate ones.†   (source)
  • The land, the people, the forests were her accomplices, guarding him with vigilant accord, with an air of seclusion, of mystery, of invincible possession.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • They accord very much with my own.†   (source)
  • The day wore on in a repose unstirred by breeze and sound, in accord with the mourning of August Naab.†   (source)
  • He thought a while, and then went off into a seemingly alien observation which, however, accorded with their feelings.†   (source)
  • I knew the next day that a letter containing the key had, by the first post, gone off to his London apartments; but in spite of—or perhaps just on account of—the eventual diffusion of this knowledge we quite let him alone till after dinner, till such an hour of the evening, in fact, as might best accord with the kind of emotion on which our hopes were fixed.†   (source)
  • Even Vera Lebedeff was angry with him for a while; so was Colia; so was Keller, until he was selected for best man; so was Lebedeff himself,—who began to intrigue against him out of pure irritation;—but of this anon. In fact we are in full accord with certain forcible words spoken to the prince by Evgenie Pavlovitch, quite unceremoniously, during the course of a friendly conversation, six or seven days after the events at Nastasia Philipovna's house.†   (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)
  • He accorded both.†   (source)
  • Shefford watched her performance, so swift, agile, so perfectly balanced, showing such wonderful accord between eye and foot; and then when he swept his gaze down upon that wild valley where she had roamed alone for twelve years he marveled no more.†   (source)
  • This was especially the case when the pleasure was a delicate one, as his pleasures mostly were; and on this occasion the moment he looked forward to was so rare and exquisite in quality that—well, if he had timed his arrival in accord with the prima donna's stage-manager he could not have entered the Academy at a more significant moment than just as she was singing: "He loves me—he loves me not—HE LOVES ME!†   (source)
  • Lady Bruton often suspended judgement upon men in deference to the mysterious accord in which they, but no woman, stood to the laws of the universe; knew how to put things; knew what was said; so that if Richard advised her, and Hugh wrote for her, she was sure of being somehow right.†   (source)
  • Take my word for it, that smile was simply stunning, and it is only you and I who will be fastidious, and complain that true joy begins in the eyes, and that the eyes of Jacky did not accord with her smile, but were anxious and hungry.†   (source)
  • She wanted some persuasion, for she had an idea of acting up to her situation, and felt instinctively that it did not accord with her distressed condition to go to a place of entertainment.†   (source)
  • If the welcome accorded Tom by Burn and Dave had touched him, that given by their women folk reached deeply to his heart.†   (source)
  • It was in accord with this awakened sense of duty that she undressed with great care and meticulously folded the clothes that she took off.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • That was my last view of him—in a strong light, dominating, and yet in complete accord with his surroundings—with the life of the forests and with the life of men.†   (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)
  • It was a student's face; only the eyebrows nearly all white, thick and bushy, together with the resolute searching glance that came from under them, were not in accord with his, I may say, learned appearance.†   (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)
  • 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)
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