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  • Piano chords loll in the speaker of the wireless in the guard station, projecting rich blacks and complicated blues down the hall toward the key pound.†   (source)
  • But this fresh anger struck a deeper chord than most of his sudden bursts of frustration.†   (source)
  • Thomas knew he'd struck a chord.†   (source)
  • She played a chord, then another, added in a few silver notes from her right hand, pushed once on a pedal, and was gone.†   (source)
  • He drew a plaintive chord from the woodharp.†   (source)
  • He had me curve my hand around an apple and keep that shape when playing chords.†   (source)
  • The velvety, fluent voice struck a chord.†   (source)
  • But every time I was awake and trying to remember the melodies consciously, hum a few notes or recall any of the chords, I couldn't.†   (source)
  • He strummed chords across the top of my chest, which tickled and made me laugh.†   (source)
  • Like Arya's mind, music ran through this one: deep amber-gold chords that throbbed with magisterial melancholy.†   (source)
  • I managed a couple of lessons at a local music shop to learn the fingering, scales and some basic chords.†   (source)
  • Lenar Hoyt removed a small balalaika from his pack and strummed a few chords.†   (source)
  • My father and I would stay up at night and sing some of the songs together as he attempted to work out the chords on his guitar.†   (source)
  • I moved my hands again and the lute made two chords whispering against each other.†   (source)
  • After all, there was the Marne — that classic line of defence where everything must come to a standstill, the way it does in the fermata of the second section of Chopin's B minor scherzo, in a stormy tempo of quavers going on and on, more and more tempestuously, until the closing chord — at which point the Germans would retreat to their own border as vigorously as they had advanced; leading to the end of the war and an Allied victory.†   (source)
  • The song he was still playing, my song, drifted to an end, the final chords shifting to a more melancholy key.†   (source)
  • Everybody in the arena knows what that chord promises.†   (source)
  • When it landed, it unleashed a blast like a power chord on an electric guitar magnified through the world's largest speakers.†   (source)
  • See it foam, see it foam, the words played over and over in his mind like a single sick chord on an out-of-tune piano, completing the circuit of his rage.†   (source)
  • That chord is pulled the split-second I hit the right altitude.†   (source)
  • The coffin struck such a chord of terror in me I think it absorbed all the capacity for terror I had left.†   (source)
  • The warm-up band, Blunt Force Trauma, gets rolling at about 9:00 P.M. On the first power chord, a whole stack of cheap preowned speakers shorts out; its wires throw sparks into the air, sending an arc of chaos through the massed skateboarders.†   (source)
  • He worked from seven in the morning until late at night, and by the time he left work he was so tired that he was incapable of striking a single chord on his guitar, much less making love to Blanca with his accustomed passion.†   (source)
  • Whatever the reason, it struck a chord, and there was no escaping this crazy phenomenon.†   (source)
  • In many cuentos I had heard the owl was one of the disguises a bruja took, and so it struck a chord of fear in the heart to hear them hooting at night.†   (source)
  • They were wondrous clocks made of carved wood, which the Arabs had traded for macaws and which Jose Arcadio Buendia had synchronized with such precision that every half hour the town grew merry with the progressive chords of the same song until it reached the climax of a noontime that was as exact and unanimous as a complete waltz.†   (source)
  • He tried a chord on the instrument, nodded.†   (source)
  • The syllables rolled through his head like a ripple of guitar chords.†   (source)
  • I placed my fingers on the chords running the length of her neck and massaged easily.†   (source)
  • Strumming chords on his guitar, he serenaded me while the hostess laid menus on the table.†   (source)
  • By the way he plays the chords I can tell he's been asked to sing it before.†   (source)
  • Paul sat on the edge of the raised hearth and strummed a few chords, and then his fingers started moving in the familiar patterns of the Segovia pieces he'd played the night before: "Estudio" and "Estudio Sin Luz."†   (source)
  • The harmonica knocked teeth, wheezing, Dad hocked forth great chords of squeeze-eyed hilarity, turning in a circle, jumping up to kick his heels.†   (source)
  • Only the pianist, a girl with long hair, stays with her instrument during the break, trying out new chord progressions.†   (source)
  • Bove's message — that Frenchmen should not become "servile slaves at the service of agribusiness" — has struck a chord.†   (source)
  • It was dusk, the windows were rolled down, the warm summer wind was on their faces, the familiar woods of their youth blurred by, and they hung on to every chord of Hank Williams Jr.'s guitar as they sang along to "Country Boy Can Survive."†   (source)
  • The boy played the opening chord.†   (source)
  • The article was accompanied by a photo of some of the women, and it struck such a chord inside Zainab that she burst into tears.†   (source)
  • Gradually, the notes and chords became clearer and more distinct, and though it wasn't as satisfying as actually playing the piano, he knew it would have to do.†   (source)
  • She pictured Ghosh leaping to his feet as the dazzling opening chords of "Take the 'A' Train" poured from the Grundig.†   (source)
  • "I hate the B chord!" said John.†   (source)
  • Fierce clapping and thunderous organ chords came barreling out of its mouth.†   (source)
  • An hour of his time, just a few chords, two verses and a chorus.†   (source)
  • It struck a chord of fury inside him, and if he hadn't been so debilitated by pain, he would have flung himself off the bed and onto the other boy in a rage.†   (source)
  • The fire had burned to coals and he lay looking up at the stars in their places and the hot belt of matter that ran the chord of the dark vault overhead and he put his hands on the ground at either side of him and pressed them against the earth and in that coldly burning canopy of black he slowly turned dead center to the world, all of it taut and trembling and moving enormous and alive under his hands.†   (source)
  • She was part of the sound—he knew just what chords she contributed to the awful music.†   (source)
  • One of them carried a guitar and struck, now and again, a random chord upon its strings.†   (source)
  • Billy had powerful psychosomatic responses to the changing chords.†   (source)
  • He turned to make sure Laura was here, shapeless in the armchair, head resting against the hand-knit antimacassar, face lifted to the chords.†   (source)
  • After every two words he gasped and dragged the air over his vocal chords, making a sound like an inverted grunt.†   (source)
  • 'Giuseppe,' the mother said again, in a soft, broken chord of muted anguish.†   (source)
  • Mr. Aired has taught me to read chord music.†   (source)
  • The tone got through, or when he bothered to look, the expression on Cal's face tripped a chord.†   (source)
  • Now Kurt's playing an experimental chord.†   (source)
  • Yet, ironically, something Mr. Bourne said struck a chord with this court.†   (source)
  • Felicity's plea has struck a chord with Madame Romanoff.†   (source)
  • chords converged into a single note of simple, mournful purity.†   (source)
  • We had an entire evening to fill, and no matter how we kept steering back to the case or joking how "this wasn't a date," there was this pull, this bass chord twanging inside me, telling me that this was no time to start anything with anyone, not even handsome and charming Chris Raleigh.†   (source)
  • All those shrieks, those rapid tumbling barks, the long sustained yells, the tuba sounds, the drumbeat sounds, the low liquid howm howm, the reedy whistles, the thin eeeee's of a cornet, the unh unh unh bass chords.†   (source)
  • The essay began appearing in the Gazette on August 12, 1765, and it struck an immediate chord.†   (source)
  • I knew who I'd set that ringtone for, and those few chords were all it took to derail my entire afternoon.†   (source)
  • He listens to the chords: C and G, D and A. E minor.†   (source)
  • There was something about flying and diving that struck a chord.†   (source)
  • Watching the performers, who spent most of their time practicing on simulators, coax notes and chords out of the relics was like witnessing a resurrection.†   (source)
  • All of a sudden Miss Love hopped up like she'd sat on a pin, plopped herself down on the piano stool, and went to playing chords.†   (source)
  • I strode along, hearing the cartman's song become a lonesome, broad-toned whistle now that flowered at the end of each phrase into a tremulous, blue-toned chord.†   (source)
  • It grew in depth, low and hollow, an elongated wail, fear and revulsion weaved into the chord.†   (source)
  • His boleros and rancheras touched a chord in the poor and the oppressed.†   (source)
  • Gotta rest those vocal chords.†   (source)
  • As always, her sleeves were pulled down, almost covering her hands against any accidental touch, and she wore headphones, the hiss of metal power chords audible from them like an insistent whisper.†   (source)
  • Patsy's reference to a Slurpie struck a chord in me.†   (source)
  • The crash of its opening chords swept the sights of the streets away from her mind.†   (source)
  • Though he had not gotten close enough for a good look at the demon he had followed the previous night, something about the creature had struck a familiar chord in his oldest recollections.†   (source)
  • The next picture has the same knight only smaller, and underneath him some words, which we sing to the heavy thumping of chords from the unseen piano:†   (source)
  • I don't thoroughly understand the conventions of each tradition and I'm not sure how to voice jazz chords—which notes to leave out, how the scales work, all the rhythmic concepts.†   (source)
  • From the open door came the delicious aromas of several exotic brews and the music of a lone guitarist playing a New Age tune that was mellow and relaxing though filled with tediously repetitive chords.†   (source)
  • The fluid chords of "Amazing Grace" poured downthe hallways and crowded ' against portraits of white-collared men who had spent much of their lives absorbing punishing confessions and doling out reams of Hail Marys as spiritual salve.†   (source)
  • I imagined that any parents who would go to such lengths to proclaim Christmas joy must truly feel it with every colored bulb that blinked and every chord of every carol.†   (source)
  • I rest my head against his as he plays, changing the chords a little, but I can't shake this feeling that something happened, like he went away for a minute and only part of him came back.†   (source)
  • His fingertips played slow chords on an invisible keyboard on the bar.†   (source)
  • If she was going to she got no chance, for outside, all in a shuddering deluge of thick guitar chords, the Paranoids had broken into song.†   (source)
  • And so in her room at Yetta's, reminded of the poem again today by those somber chords of Mahler, she decided to go before class began to the Brooklyn College library and browse through the work of this marvelous artificer, whom she also ignorantly conceived to be a man.†   (source)
  • He had a fond image of her sitting stoop-shouldered at the new piano, leaning forward to read the music and stretching her hands for the hymn-tune chords, the only piano music she knew how to play.†   (source)
  • But as she said it, I knew she'd struck some chord, some deep-buried thing which replied with a powerful "Why not?†   (source)
  • To get the best out of them, you must have the right approach, you have to play on their best, most sensitive chords.†   (source)
  • She screwed it into tune and played it, slurring the chords expertly and fanning with her fingers.†   (source)
  • At every step the crystal hummed sweet chords, throbbing like the prolonged over-tones of bronze bells.†   (source)
  • In her first day learning the guitar, she has learned how to play G major, C major, and D major chords.
  • He bound me with kisses and cords of chorded song.†   (source)
  • All his favorites, chording slower and slower, quieter and quieter.†   (source)
  • Thankfully my injured thumb was on my chording hand, where it would be a relatively minor inconvenience.†   (source)
  • All right, you tell Uncle Felix," said Aunt Ethel, turning toward the roses, spreading her little hand out chordlike over them, "—of course he must have these-that that's Souvenir de Claudius Pernet-and that's Mermaid-Mary Wallace-Silver Moon— those three of course Etoiles-and oh, Duquesa de Penaranda-Gruss an Aachen's of course his cutting he grew for me a thousand years ago— but there's my Climbing Thor!†   (source)
  • Chords float past in transparent riffles.†   (source)
  • I strummed a chord that was intentionally out of tune.†   (source)
  • He pulled on the starter chord with his good hand, and the generator stuttered and growled to life.†   (source)
  • Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli.†   (source)
  • Halleck drew a final soft chord from the baliset, thinking: Now we are seventy-three.†   (source)
  • Even after so many years, her name struck a chord.†   (source)
  • We told our story to enraptured groups and struck a chord.†   (source)
  • As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter.†   (source)
  • I assure you, my dear, were you to play the piano on the moon, I would hear every chord.†   (source)
  • He struck another chord, listened to it, smiled.†   (source)
  • The jazzy chords of a Barry White song began to play.†   (source)
  • "I think you've struck that chord well enough, Bast," Kvothe said, amused.†   (source)
  • He drew a soft chord from the instrument, found that someone had already tuned it.†   (source)
  • I struck a chord and listened to the grating sound.†   (source)
  • By the time I struck the third chord everyone knew what it was: "Tinker Tanner."†   (source)
  • I fingered a few more light chords, testing, listened, and nodded to myself.†   (source)
  • I struck a few quiet chords, then touched the pegs, tuning it ever so slightly.†   (source)
  • Something about the clasp around his wrist struck a chord deep in his mind.†   (source)
  • As far as I was concerned, I wrote songs: chords and beats and lyrics, verses and bridges and hooks.†   (source)
  • Thoth strummed a chord that sounded like the death cry of a sick donkey.†   (source)
  • He was bobbing his head as the chords bounced over us.†   (source)
  • Her voice trailed, dipped and bowed; she gave a chord to the simplest words.†   (source)
  • He glanced at Julie, then winked before strumming the first chords.†   (source)
  • In the distance, Bryan heard a few hesitant, amateur guitar chords.†   (source)
  • That struck a chord, and I tried to pay more attention to what he was saying.†   (source)
  • But for now, the chords were building overhead, the chorus starting up again.†   (source)
  • Melvin is going to teach me some country songs after I memorize the chords for these.†   (source)
  • Dad blew another chord, yanked Will's elbow, flung each of his arms.†   (source)
  • Ted cocked his head to the side, then strummed another chord.†   (source)
  • No simpering here— bring this good man a fiddle and let us hear his soul in every note and chord!†   (source)
  • The thought struck a chord of terror deep in Thomas's mind.†   (source)
  • She'd struck a chord with him the last time, maybe surprised him with her boldness.†   (source)
  • The great burst of sound was the opening chords of Halley's Fourth Concerto.†   (source)
  • "But it's just basic chords!" said Elijah.†   (source)
  • Mavis forgot her vocal chords and squealed.†   (source)
  • Paul was in the family room, playing the same chord over and over again on his guitar.†   (source)
  • Why should the 'mad colonels' strike a chord with you?†   (source)
  • Now, as if waking up, he searched the room for a reaction, seeing if the writer struck a chord.†   (source)
  • The shrouds and every other rope in the ship exposed to the wind became a chord of very harsh music.†   (source)
  • When I slashed out my first chord, it was like turning off a light.†   (source)
  • After each chord change, Mike looks up, expectantly.†   (source)
  • Enough for Monique to know that Thomas had struck a chord.†   (source)
  • Music could be heard from within, hypnotic, tantalizing chords of a belyael.†   (source)
  • Ted plucked out another chord, then tightened a string.†   (source)
  • He fingers the chords, one at a time, and she copies them briskly on staff paper.†   (source)
  • See?" he said, the first time she heard the melody after the chords.†   (source)
  • "I can do that," I answered quickly, forming the chords with my fingers.†   (source)
  • A hundred melodies swelled into a thousand-like a heavy, woven chord blasting down his spine.†   (source)
  • I'm fine," I said as someone played a few guitar chords.†   (source)
  • "Thanks," he said, ducking his head to hide his pleasure, hitting a chord.†   (source)
  • It was a terrible sound, one that mingled human chords with something altogether alien.†   (source)
  • The tune rose through the octave, piercing the still air with full-bodied chords.†   (source)
  • He was still strumming the chords, finding them in the dark.†   (source)
  • Can you print out the chords for 'Seven Nation Army' for me?†   (source)
  • Those opening chords, though ....how they stayed with her.†   (source)
  • This lullaby is only a few words, a simple run of chords—†   (source)
  • And yet, she heard those chords in her sleep, found herself humming them during her ablutions.†   (source)
  • Suddenly I heard someone laugh, and then a few guitar chords, playing softly.†   (source)
  • It had not a great many chords, it was never loud.†   (source)
  • As Mr. Neck opens his mouth to speak, David presses the Play and Record buttons at the same time, like a pianist hitting an opening chord.†   (source)
  • He turned his gaze inward and scrutinized himself to determine what struck the deepest, darkest chords within him.†   (source)
  • The brass chimes swayed and clanged, picking notes out of the wind and making chords from the dissonance.†   (source)
  • I would play after him, the simple scale, the simple chord, and then I just played some nonsense that sounded like a cat running up and down on top of garbage cans.†   (source)
  • Miss Edmunds picked a few odd chords and then began to sing, more quietly than usual for that particular song:†   (source)
  • He pressed two chords with his hands.†   (source)
  • She holds the wrong note in her mind, and even as she continues playing, that note reverberates within her, growing to a crescendo, stealing her focus until she slips again, into a second wrong note, and then, two minutes later, blows an entire chord.†   (source)
  • "With all due respect," he says through tightly constricted vocal chords, "I don't think a man who advocates for women on the pulpit, or equal rights for homosexuals, or sexual information to children too young to handle it, should be in this office telling me what's best for one of my students..."†   (source)
  • Peter Frampton says that E major is the great rock chord; all youhave to do to set off pandemonium in a concert is to stand onstage alone and strike a big, fat, full E major.†   (source)
  • Fifty-six seventy-two something ...memory coming at Werner like a six-car train out of the darkness, the quality of the transmission and the tenor of the voice matching in every respect the broadcasts of the Frenchman he used to hear, and then a piano plays three single notes, followed by a pair, the chords rising peacefully, each a candle leading deeper into a forest ...The recognition is immediate.†   (source)
  • Miss Edmunds fiddled a minute with her guitar, talking as she tightened the strings to the jingling of her bracelets and the thrumming of chords.†   (source)
  • "Yes —" I couldn't help feeling gratified, obscurely, that he'd noted this detail, oddly important to me, with its own network of childhood dreams and associations, an emotional chord—"the board is thicker than you'd think.†   (source)
  • "This one's for Jack," he says, and begins playing the opening chords to the prewar classic "Don't Fear the Reaper."†   (source)
  • It was all hard to remember through the fog of anger, the sick single thump of that one Spike Jones chord.†   (source)
  • When I feel that resonance, that "fat chord" that feels heavy yet sparkles with promise or portent, it almost always means the phrase, or whatever, is borrowed from somewhere else and promises special significance.†   (source)
  • And then he would play the C scale a few times, a simple chord, and then, as if inspired by an old, unreachable itch, he gradually added more notes and running trills and a pounding bass until the music was really something quite grand.†   (source)
  • It was the stillness that had always frightened him before, but this time it was like the moment after Miss Edmunds finished a song, just after the chords hummed down to silence.†   (source)
  • Halleck bent his ear close to the sounding board, strummed a chord and sang softly: "Our fathers ate manna in the desert, In the burning places where whirlwinds came.†   (source)
  • Gurney strummed a chord.†   (source)
  • I made a simple chord and strummed it.†   (source)
  • I moved a finger and the chord went minor in a way that always sounded to me as if the lute were saying sad.†   (source)
  • I struck the beginning chord of Savien's verse and I heard a piercing sound that pulled me out of the music like a fish dragged from deep water.†   (source)
  • I'll bet he learned each chord, each fingering after being shown just once, no stumbling, no complaining.†   (source)
  • I struck the first chord hard and waited as the sound of it began to fade without drawing a voice from the audience.†   (source)
  • The words struck a chord in me.†   (source)
  • E chord.†   (source)
  • She could hear the soft whisper of his labored breathing, the endless rush of waters, the faint chords of some love song drifting up from the yard, so sad and sweet.†   (source)
  • But the sky cells had a wall of empty air, so every chord the dead man played flew free to echo off the stony shoulders of the Giant's Lance.†   (source)
  • Thomas had understood where she was going, but not until now did her simple suggestion strike a chord in his mind.†   (source)
  • In the background, he could hear the distorted chords of a country-western song playing on a jukebox and the dull roar of loud conversation.†   (source)
  • The name struck a chord in Eragon.†   (source)
  • He plucked a dramatic chord.†   (source)
  • Something about finding my mother walking the floor, soothing her, struck a chord with him, the very image able to convey all the things that I hadn't been able to.†   (source)
  • Ciphus froze halfway through Thomas's point, perhaps as much in fear being overheard as because of any chord it struck in him.†   (source)
  • Dmitri strummed a chord.†   (source)
  • I'll never forget the hushed excitement of the crowd or the way people craned their necks to see my daughters making their way down the aisle; I'll never forget how my hands began to shake when I heard the first chords of the "Wedding March" or how radiant Jane looked as she was escorted down the aisle by her father.†   (source)
  • He plucked a sad chord from his harp.†   (source)
  • The first thing Eragon noticed about Rhunon as their minds met was the low chords that echoed through the dark and tangled landscape of her thoughts.†   (source)
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