harmonious

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Please resolve your disagreement harmoniously.

The wind rippled past me like lyre notes, and my own breath seemed to pipe in harmony.  (source) Madeline Miller, Circe, 2018

For a few years, the founders worked in harmony together, seeking out youngsters who showed signs of magic and bringing them to the castle to be educated.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998

When I watch my family move in harmony; when we go to dinner parties and everyone cleans together afterward without having to be asked; when I see Caleb help strangers carry their groceries, I fall in love with this life all over again.  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

In irregular small groups, disintegrating, coalescing, striking just the right note of disharmony, disorder in the big room, which Irene had furnished with a sparingness that was almost chaste, moved the guests with that slight familiarity that makes a party a success.†  (source) Nella Larsen, Passing, 1929

Sixteen is the key and crucial and natural age for a human being to be, and people of all other ages are ranged in an orderly manner ahead of and behind you as a harmonious setting for the sixteen-year-olds of this world.  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

The crying and clashing of the harmonies were an obsession in the melted bowels.  (source) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

When he came to the tale of the great mother, the queen of all, who first learned to keep and teach the new queen instead of killing her or driving her away, then he lingered, telling how many times she had finally to destroy the child of her body, the new self that was not herself, until she bore one who understood her quest for harmony.  (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977

But then the girls settled into a sweet disharmony that brought tears to Theresa's eyes.†  (source) Gish Jen, Typical American, 1991

In the Bottling Room all was harmonious bustle and ordered activity.  (source) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

Again, again–and it was not the ear that heard the pulsing rhythm, it was the midriff; the wail and clang of those recurring harmonies haunted, not the mind, but the yearning bowels of compassion.  (source) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

...and we were right in sync. It was as if we'd been playing together all our lives. That harmony should have carried over and made us tough to beat in Pop Warner, but...  (source) Carl Deuker, Gym Candy, 2007

'In this way,' " I continued, " if there is any disharmony of interest, there will be no public embarrassment to either family.†  (source) Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter, 2001

The band's practice sessions don't sound very harmonious.

It was his favorite, with its powerful, deep harmonies—he was a little sorry to be missing it.  (source) Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember, 2003

As the notes overlap, they compliment one another, forming a lovely, unearthly harmony.  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

She probably imagined that she was thinking about the Aids and their missionary box and the new carpet for the vestry room, but under these reflections was a harmonious consciousness of red fields smoking into pale-purply mists in the declining sun, of long, sharp-pointed fir shadows falling over the meadow beyond the brook, of still, crimson-budded maples around a mirrorlike wood pool, of a wakening in the world and a stir of hidden pulses under the gray sod.  (source) Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables, 1908

I heard voices, among them my own, chanting harmonies in an ancient hall.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

The orchestra struck up a lively tune and they glided off together once more, dipping and swaying here and there—harmoniously abandoning themselves to the rhythm of the music—like two small chips being tossed about on a rough but friendly sea.†  (source) Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy, 1925

The furniture in this room is no worse than inharmonious, however, for we had to bring it all from downstairs.†  (source) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper, 1892

You would have to hear it yourself to believe the perfect pitch, the harmony parts, how the volume rolled up and down.  (source) Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, 2002

All thy request for Man, accepted Son, Obtain; all thy request was my decree: But, longer in that Paradise to dwell, The law I gave to Nature him forbids: Those pure immortal elements, that know, No gross, no unharmonious mixture foul, Eject him, tainted now; and purge him off, As a distemper, gross, to air as gross, And mortal food; as may dispose him best For dissolution wrought by sin, that first Distempered all things, and of incorrupt Corrupted.†  (source) John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667

Then she said, shyly and proudly, "In these past few months, Aunt Hannah, we've come to a — kind of harmoniousness that — that, she began to shake her head.†  (source) James Agee, A Death in the Family, 1957

As I struck the wires with my other hand, I produced my first harmonious sounds, and soon my own music!†  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

Now the piano makes a long, familiar run, the pianist playing different scales with each hand—what sounds like three hands, four—the harmonies like steadily thickening pearls on a strand, and Werner sees six-year-old Jutta lean toward him, Frau Elena kneading bread in the background, a crystal radio in his lap, the cords of his soul not yet severed.†  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

She stopped and seemed very thoughtful for awhile, and then said smiling: "I must say that I don't like moving about from one home to another; one gets so pleasantly used to all the detail of the life about one; it fits so harmoniously and happily into one's own life, that beginning again, even in a small way, is a kind of pain.†  (source) William Morris, News from Nowhere, 1890