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  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He had me curve my hand around an apple and keep that shape when playing chords.†   (source)
  • By the way he plays the chords I can tell he's been asked to sing it before.†   (source)
  • Thomas knew he'd struck a chord.†   (source)
  • He drew a plaintive chord from the woodharp.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Like Arya's mind, music ran through this one: deep amber-gold chords that throbbed with magisterial melancholy.†   (source)
  • That chord is pulled the split-second I hit the right altitude.†   (source)
  • Lenar Hoyt removed a small balalaika from his pack and strummed a few chords.†   (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)
  • The brass chimes swayed and clanged, picking notes out of the wind and making chords from the dissonance.†   (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)
  • Bove's message — that Frenchmen should not become "servile slaves at the service of agribusiness" — has struck a chord.†   (source)
  • He strummed chords across the top of my chest, which tickled and made me laugh.†   (source)
  • I managed a couple of lessons at a local music shop to learn the fingering, scales and some basic chords.†   (source)
  • I placed my fingers on the chords running the length of her neck and massaged easily.†   (source)
  • The syllables rolled through his head like a ripple of guitar chords.†   (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)
  • I moved my hands again and the lute made two chords whispering against each other.†   (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)
  • He tried a chord on the instrument, nodded.†   (source)
  • The tone got through, or when he bothered to look, the expression on Cal's face tripped a chord.†   (source)
  • After every two words he gasped and dragged the air over his vocal chords, making a sound like an inverted grunt.†   (source)
  • Only the pianist, a girl with long hair, stays with her instrument during the break, trying out new chord progressions.†   (source)
  • Strumming chords on his guitar, he serenaded me while the hostess laid menus on the table.†   (source)
  • The boy played the opening chord.†   (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)
  • "I hate the B chord!" said John.†   (source)
  • "Thanks," he said, ducking his head to hide his pleasure, hitting a chord.†   (source)
  • One of them carried a guitar and struck, now and again, a random chord upon its strings.†   (source)
  • He was bobbing his head as the chords bounced over us.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • She was part of the sound--he knew just what chords she contributed to the awful music.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Felicity's plea has struck a chord with Madame Romanoff.†   (source)
  • Whatever the reason, it struck a chord, and there was no escaping this crazy phenomenon.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The coffin struck such a chord of terror in me I think it absorbed all the capacity for terror I had left.†   (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)
  • 'Giuseppe,' the mother said again, in a soft, broken chord of muted anguish.†   (source)
  • I knew who I'd set that ringtone for, and those few chords were all it took to derail my entire afternoon.†   (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)
  • She pictured Ghosh leaping to his feet as the dazzling opening chords of "Take the 'A' Train" poured from the Grundig.†   (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)
  • There was something about flying and diving that struck a chord.†   (source)
  • Yet, ironically, something Mr. Bourne said struck a chord with this court.†   (source)
  • His boleros and rancheras touched a chord in the poor and the oppressed.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The essay began appearing in the Gazette on August 12, 1765, and it struck an immediate chord.†   (source)
  • Patsy's reference to a Slurpie struck a chord in me.†   (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)
  • Fierce clapping and thunderous organ chords came barreling out of its mouth.†   (source)
  • Billy had powerful psychosomatic responses to the changing chords.†   (source)
  • The crash of its opening chords swept the sights of the streets away from her mind.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • At last, just when Max feared the strings would snap, the. chords converged into a single note of simple, mournful purity.†   (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: I would be true, for there are those who trust me,
    I would be pure, for there are those who care,
    I would be strong, for there is much to suffer,
    I would be brave, for there is much to dare.
    Beside me, in the dark, I hear Grace's voice going up and up, thin and reedy, like a bird's.†   (source)
  • It grew in depth, low and hollow, an elongated wail, fear and revulsion weaved into the chord.†   (source)
  • He listens to the chords: C and G, D and A. E minor.†   (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)
  • Now Kurt's playing an experimental chord.†   (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)
  • Mr. Aired has taught me to read chord music.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Gotta rest those vocal chords.†   (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)
  • His fingertips played slow chords on an invisible keyboard on the bar.†   (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)
  • It was not a conventional lovers' correspondence, despite Oluf s frequent attempts to strike the chord of passion.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Thoth strummed a chord that sounded like the death cry of a sick donkey.†   (source)
  • I strummed a chord that was intentionally out of tune.†   (source)
  • Chords float past in transparent riffles.†   (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)
  • He drew a soft chord from the instrument, found that someone had already tuned it.†   (source)
  • Even after so many years, her name struck a chord.†   (source)
  • As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter.†   (source)
  • We told our story to enraptured groups and struck a chord.†   (source)
  • Halleck drew a final soft chord from the baliset, thinking: Now we are seventy-three.†   (source)
  • By the time I struck the third chord everyone knew what it was: "Tinker Tanner."†   (source)
  • He struck another chord, listened to it, smiled.†   (source)
  • I struck a chord and listened to the grating sound.†   (source)
  • "I think you've struck that chord well enough, Bast," Kvothe said, amused.†   (source)
  • I struck a few quiet chords, then touched the pegs, tuning it ever so slightly.†   (source)
  • I fingered a few more light chords, testing, listened, and nodded to myself.†   (source)
  • He glanced at Julie, then winked before strumming the first chords.†   (source)
  • An hour of his time, just a few chords, two verses and a chorus.†   (source)
  • Something about the clasp around his wrist struck a chord deep in his mind.†   (source)
  • That struck a chord, and I tried to pay more attention to what he was saying.†   (source)
  • In the distance, Bryan heard a few hesitant, amateur guitar chords.†   (source)
  • Her voice trailed, dipped and bowed; she gave a chord to the simplest words.†   (source)
  • As far as I was concerned, I wrote songs: chords and beats and lyrics, verses and bridges and hooks.†   (source)
  • I'm fine," I said as someone played a few guitar chords.†   (source)
  • No simpering here— bring this good man a fiddle and let us hear his soul in every note and chord!†   (source)
  • Dad blew another chord, yanked Will's elbow, flung each of his arms.†   (source)
  • When I slashed out my first chord, it was like turning off a light.†   (source)
  • Why should the 'mad colonels' strike a chord with you?†   (source)
  • Melvin is going to teach me some country songs after I memorize the chords for these.†   (source)
  • The thought struck a chord of terror deep in Thomas's mind.†   (source)
  • Ted plucked out another chord, then tightened a string.†   (source)
  • The great burst of sound was the opening chords of Halley's Fourth Concerto.†   (source)
  • After each chord change, Mike looks up, expectantly.†   (source)
  • She'd struck a chord with him the last time, maybe surprised him with her boldness.†   (source)
  • "I can do that," I answered quickly, forming the chords with my fingers.†   (source)
  • The shrouds and every other rope in the ship exposed to the wind became a chord of very harsh music.†   (source)
  • Mavis forgot her vocal chords and squealed.†   (source)
  • Enough for Monique to know that Thomas had struck a chord.†   (source)
  • Now, as if waking up, he searched the room for a reaction, seeing if the writer struck a chord.†   (source)
  • Paul was in the family room, playing the same chord over and over again on his guitar.†   (source)
  • He fingers the chords, one at a time, and she copies them briskly on staff paper.†   (source)
  • Music could be heard from within, hypnotic, tantalizing chords of a belyael.†   (source)
  • Those opening chords, though …. how they stayed with her.†   (source)
  • A hundred melodies swelled into a thousand-like a heavy, woven chord blasting down his spine.†   (source)
  • "Can you print out the chords for 'Seven Nation Army' for me?"†   (source)
  • Ted cocked his head to the side, then strummed another chord.†   (source)
  • But for now, the chords were building overhead, the chorus starting up again.†   (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)
  • It was a terrible sound, one that mingled human chords with something altogether alien.†   (source)
  • "But it's just basic chords!" said Elijah.†   (source)
  • The tune rose through the octave, piercing the still air with full-bodied chords.†   (source)
  • See?" he said, the first time she heard the melody after the chords.†   (source)
  • Suddenly I heard someone laugh, and then a few guitar chords, playing softly.†   (source)
  • He was still strumming the chords, finding them in the dark.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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…… " "That's what I wanted to hear," Mr. Ellerby says, smiling.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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 ….†   (source)
  • 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)
  • It must have struck a chord, because she interrupted herself in order to look at the musician and wonder aloud where that melody was from.†   (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)
  • The power failure had tweaked a deep chord in me, making me feel as if I'd lost a sense, as if I was blind or deaf without the hum of the machines.†   (source)
  • Miss Edmunds picked a few odd chords and then began to sing, more quietly than usual for that particular song: "I see a land bright and clear
    And the time's coming near
    When we'll live in this land
    You and me, hand in hand …."
    People began to join in, quietly at first to match her mood, but as the song built up at the end, their voices did as well, so that by the time they got to the final "Free to be you and me," the whole school could hear them.†   (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 struck the first chord hard and waited as the sound of it began to fade without drawing a voice from the audience.†   (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'll bet he learned each chord, each fingering after being shown just once, no stumbling, no complaining.†   (source)
  • I made a simple chord and strummed it.†   (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)
  • The words struck a chord in me.†   (source)
  • E chord.†   (source)
  • He plucked a sad chord from his harp.†   (source)
  • He plucked a dramatic chord.†   (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)
  • When it landed, it unleashed a blast like a power chord on an electric guitar magnified through the world's largest speakers.†   (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)
  • Dmitri strummed a chord.†   (source)
  • Thomas had understood where she was going, but not until now did her simple suggestion strike a chord in his mind.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The name struck a chord in Eragon.†   (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)
  • He turned his gaze inward and scrutinized himself to determine what struck the deepest, darkest chords within him.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • It seemed the service took forever and the strained silence remained long after the last amen, long after the chords of organ music ended; then finally we were out the door and heading for the final ride to the cemetery, the new one outside the city limits.†   (source)
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