All 50 Uses of
accord
in
War and Peace
- Anna Pavlovna greeted him with the nod she accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room.†
Chpt 1 (definition 2)
- She will come running to me of her own accord in the evening and tell me everything.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- Everyone again looked toward the door, which creaked as the second princess went in with the drink she had prepared according to Lorrain's instructions.†
Chpt 1 (definition 2)
- And the prince began explaining all the blunders which, according to him, Bonaparte had made in his campaigns and even in politics.†
Chpt 1 (definition 2)
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Chpt 2 (definition 2) *accord = in keeping (or in agreement)
- According to the scouts the last of them crossed on rafts during the night.†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- Prince Andrew listened attentively to Bagration's colloquies with the commanding officers and the orders he gave them and, to his surprise, found that no orders were really given, but that Prince Bagration tried to make it appear that everything done by necessity, by accident, or by the will of subordinate commanders was done, if not by his direct command, at least in accord with his intentions.†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- Rook pulled at the reins and started of his own accord.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- "It seems that there will be no need to bring Mary out, suitors are coming to us of their own accord," incautiously remarked the little princess on hearing the news.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- More than ever was Boris resolved to serve in future not according to the written code, but under this unwritten law.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- And as if in accord with Rostov's feeling, there was a deathly stillness amid which was heard the Emperor's voice.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- The troops of the center, the reserves, and Bagration's right flank had not yet moved, but on the left flank the columns of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, which were to be the first to descend the heights to attack the French right flank and drive it into the Bohemian mountains according to plan, were already up and astir.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- According to the dispositions….†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- Bagration appeared in the doorway of the anteroom without hat or sword, which, in accord with the Club custom, he had given up to the hall porter.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- Three hundred persons took their seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows deepest where the land lies lowest.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- In accordance with Lise's and Prince Andrew's wishes they had sent in good time to Moscow for a doctor and were expecting him at any moment.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- What distinguished them from others was the absence of host or hostess and the presence of the good-natured Iogel, flying about like a feather and bowing according to the rules of his art, as he collected the tickets from all his visitors.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- Pierre took off his coat, waistcoat, and left boot according to the Rhetor's instructions.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- He had become thoroughly conversant with that unwritten code with which he had been so pleased at Olmutz and according to which an ensign might rank incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was needed for success in the service was not effort or work, or courage, or perseverance, but only the knowledge of how to get on with those who can grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his success and at the inability of others to understand…†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- He had become thoroughly conversant with that unwritten code with which he had been so pleased at Olmutz and according to which an ensign might rank incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was needed for success in the service was not effort or work, or courage, or perseverance, but only the knowledge of how to get on with those who can grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his success and at the inability of others to understand…†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- Boris smiled circumspectly, so that it might be taken as ironical or appreciative according to the way the joke was received.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- Those who retreat after a battle have lost it is what we say; and according to that it is we who lost the battle of Pultusk.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- The steward did not say it was quite impossible, but suggested selling the forests in the province of Kostroma, the land lower down the river, and the Crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which operations according to him were connected with such complicated measures—the removal of injunctions, petitions, permits, and so on—that Pierre became quite bewildered and only replied: "Yes, yes, do so."†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- Everywhere preparations were made not for ceremonious welcomes (which he knew Pierre would not like), but for just such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his master, would touch and delude him.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- Everywhere he saw the stewards' accounts, according to which the serfs' manorial labor had been diminished, and heard the touching thanks of deputations of serfs in their full-skirted blue coats.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- These according to Pierre's observations were men who had no belief in anything, nor desire for anything, but joined the Freemasons merely to associate with the wealthy young Brothers who were influential through their connections or rank, and of whom there were very many in the lodge.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- Sometimes he joined in a conversation which interested him and, regardless of whether any "gentlemen of the embassy" were present or not, lispingly expressed his views, which were sometimes not at all in accord with the accepted tone of the moment.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- Apart from the fact that he had asked me several times whether N. and S. were members of our lodge (a question to which I could not reply) and that according to my observation he is incapable of feeling respect for our holy order and is too preoccupied and satisfied with the outer man to desire spiritual improvement, I had no cause to doubt him, but he seemed to me insincere, and all the time I stood alone with him in the dark temple it seemed to me that he was smiling contemptuously…†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- The visitor was Bitski, who served on various committees, frequented all the societies in Petersburg, and a passionate devotee of the new ideas and of Speranski, and a diligent Petersburg newsmonger—one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothes according to the fashion, but who for that very reason appear to be the warmest partisans.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- * Vera at the same time smiling with a sense of superiority over her good, conscientious husband, who all the same understood life wrongly, as according to Vera all men did.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- Vera, having decided in her own mind that Pierre ought to be entertained with conversation about the French embassy, at once began accordingly.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- the horses began to tug at the reins of their own accord and increased their pace.
Chpt 7 (definition 1) *own accord = own mind (without anyone asking)
- When they came out onto the beaten highroad—polished by sleigh runners and cut up by rough-shod hoofs, the marks of which were visible in the moonlight—the horses began to tug at the reins of their own accord and increased their pace.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1)
- All he cared about was gaiety and women, and as according to his ideas there was nothing dishonorable in these tastes, and he was incapable of considering what the gratification of his tastes entailed for others, he honestly considered himself irreproachable, sincerely despised rogues and bad people, and with a tranquil conscience carried his head high.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- Pfuel and his adherents demanded a retirement into the depths of the country in accordance with precise laws defined by a pseudo-theory of war, and they saw only barbarism, ignorance, or evil intention in every deviation from that theory.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- They insisted on the retention of the camp at Drissa, according to Pfuel's plan, but on changing the movements of the other armies.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- He nodded hurriedly in reply to Chernyshev, and smiled ironically on hearing that the sovereign was inspecting the fortifications that he, Pfuel, had planned in accord with his theory.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- He had a science—the theory of oblique movements deduced by him from the history of Frederick the Great's wars, and all he came across in the history of more recent warfare seemed to him absurd and barbarous—monstrous collisions in which so many blunders were committed by both sides that these wars could not be called wars, they did not accord with the theory, and therefore could not serve as material for science.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- And he acted accordingly.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- By Agrafena Ivanovna's advice Natasha prepared herself not in their own parish, but at a church where, according to the devout Agrafena Ivanovna, the priest was a man of very severe and lofty life.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- Hear us when we pray to Thee; strengthen with Thy might our most gracious sovereign lord, the Emperor Alexander Pavlovich; be mindful of his uprightness and meekness, reward him according to his righteousness, and let it preserve us, Thy chosen Israel!†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- The troops are moved according to the enemy's movements and the number of men increases and decreases…."†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- Rostov charged the French because he could not restrain his wish for a gallop across a level field; and in the same way the innumerable people who took part in the war acted in accord with their personal characteristics, habits, circumstances, and aims.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- They would have had to retire of their own accord, for they had no water for men or horses.†
Chpt 10 (definition 1)
- And in Helene's salon, which Rumyantsev himself honored with his visits, regarding Helene as a remarkably intelligent woman, they talked with the same ecstasy in 1812 as in 1808 of the "great nation" and the "great man," and regretted our rupture with France, a rupture which, according to them, ought to be promptly terminated by peace.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- The fact was accordingly conveyed to Lavrushka.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- Heaven only knows who arranged all this and when, but it all got done as if of its own accord.†
Chpt 10 (definition 1)
- Many of them were punished, some sent to Siberia, many died of cold and hunger on the road, many returned of their own accord, and the movement died down of itself just as it had sprung up, without apparent reason.†
Chpt 10 (definition 1)
- Alpatych named others, but they too, according to Dron, had no horses available: some horses were carting for the government, others were too weak, and others had died for want of fodder.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- Let it all be done properly, according to rule.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (accord as in: done of her own accord) mindeditor's notes: This sense of accord is typically seen in the form own accord or one accord.
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(2) (accord as in: according to, or in accord with) in keeping with; or in agreement/harmony/unity withThis meaning of accord is often seen in the form according to or accordingly where it can take on more specific meanings. For example:
- "According to Kim, ..." -- as stated by
- "To each according to her ability." -- based upon
- "Points are scored according to how well they perform." -- depending upon
- "The dose is calculated according to body weight." -- in proportion to
- "We got a flat tire. Accordingly, I pulled to the side of the road." -- because of what was just said; or as a result