All 4 Uses of
chord
in
David Copperfield
- Therefore, if it had depended upon me to touch the prevailing chord among them with any skill, I should have made a poor hand of it.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- There was always something in her modest voice that seemed to touch a chord within me, answering to that sound alone.†
Chpt 25-27
- He looked at the back of the seat, as if he were addressing himself to that; and softly played upon it with his hands, as if he were striking chords upon a dumb piano.†
Chpt 46-48
- With the unerring instinct of her noble heart, she touched the chords of my memory so softly and harmoniously, that not one jarred within me; I could listen to the sorrowful, distant music, and desire to shrink from nothing it awoke.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(chord as in: piano chord) a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together