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Definition
a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
- With his instinctive delicacy Edmond had preferred avoiding any touch on this painful chord, and Faria had been equally silent.Chapters 17-18 (65% in)
- Villefort, impassive as he was, was struck with this coincidence; and the tremulous voice of Dantes, surprised in the midst of his happiness, struck a sympathetic chord in his own bosom—he also was on the point of being married, and he was summoned from his own happiness to destroy that of another.Chapters 7-8 (19% in)
- Whether he kept a watch over himself, or whether by accident he did not sound the acrimonious chords that in other circumstances had been touched, he was to-night like everybody else.Chapters 35-36 (86% in)
- Ma foi, monsieur, you have touched upon a tender chord.Chapters 55-56 (94% in)
There are no more uses of "chord" in The Count of Monte Cristo.
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