All 50 Uses of
accord
in
Les Miserables
- It was said that his father, destining him to be the heir of his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, in accordance with a custom which is rather widely prevalent in parliamentary families.†
Chpt 1.1accordance = keeping with; or agreement with
- This holy woman regarded Monseigneur of D— as at one and the same time her brother and her bishop, her friend according to the flesh and her superior according to the Church.†
Chpt 1.1according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- This holy woman regarded Monseigneur of D— as at one and the same time her brother and her bishop, her friend according to the flesh and her superior according to the Church.†
Chpt 1.1
- Widowed and orphaned families had no need to summon him; he came of his own accord.
Chpt 1.1 *own accord = own mind (voluntarily)
- I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good that I was able.†
Chpt 1.1according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- His book was divided into two parts: firstly, the duties of all; secondly, the duties of each individual, according to the class to which he belongs.†
Chpt 1.2
- At eight o'clock he was still at work, writing with a good deal of inconvenience upon little squares of paper, with a big book open on his knees, when Madame Magloire entered, according to her wont, to get the silver-ware from the cupboard near his bed.†
Chpt 1.2
- She had, of her own accord, added to the Bishop's ordinary fare a bottle of his old Mauves wine.†
Chpt 1.2own accord = own mind -- voluntarily (without anyone asking)
- The Bishop asked a blessing; then helped the soup himself, according to his custom.†
Chpt 1.2according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- All this— laws, prejudices, deeds, men, things—went and came above him, over his head, in accordance with the complicated and mysterious movement which God imparts to civilization, walking over him and crushing him with I know not what peacefulness in its cruelty and inexorability in its indifference.†
Chpt 1.2accordance = keeping with; or agreement with
- It had no grating; it opened in the garden and was fastened, according to the fashion of the country, only by a small pin.†
Chpt 1.2according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- 27 Rue Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras kerchief knotted over his gray hair, with his eyes fixed on a mirror, a complete set of dentist's instruments spread out before him, cleaning his teeth, which were charming, while he dictated The Monarchy according to the Charter to M. Pilorge, his secretary.†
Chpt 1.3
- Have some confidence in me, for I have succeeded to some extent in my study of the law, according to the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the question put and the question pending, for I have sustained a thesis in Latin upon the manner in which torture was administered at Rome at the epoch when Munatius Demens was quaestor of the Parricide; because I am going to be a doctor, apparently it does not follow that it is absolutely necessary that I should be an imbecile.†
Chpt 1.3
- As soon as that sum was spent, the Thenardiers grew accustomed to look on the little girl merely as a child whom they were caring for out of charity; and they treated her accordingly.†
Chpt 1.4accordingly = in keeping with or in agreement with what was just stated
- And in the meantime, what had become of that mother who according to the people at Montfermeil, seemed to have abandoned her child?†
Chpt 1.5according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- At the sound of Madeleine's voice she turned around, and from that moment forth she uttered no word, nor dared so much as to breathe freely, but her glance strayed from Madeleine to Javert, and from Javert to Madeleine in turn, according to which was speaking.†
Chpt 1.5
- According to the terms of articles nine, eleven, fifteen, and sixty-six of the code of criminal examination, I am the judge.†
Chpt 1.5
- On the afternoon following the visit of Javert, M. Madeleine went to see Fantine according to his wont.†
Chpt 1.7
- Sister Perpetue was a robust nun from Marines near Pontoise, who chattered her patois, droned, grumbled, sugared the potion according to the bigotry or the hypocrisy of the invalid, treated her patients abruptly, roughly, was crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their death agony with prayers mumbled in a rage; was bold, honest, and ruddy.†
Chpt 1.7
- But this supposition vanished very quickly, and he smiled bitterly as he remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him in the position of a man guilty of a second offence after conviction, that this affair would certainly come up, and, according to the precise terms of the law, would render him liable to penal servitude for life.†
Chpt 1.7
- We think that we have here reproduced the thing in strict accordance with the text.†
Chpt 1.7accordance = keeping with; or agreement with
- that Javert was a hundred leagues from suspecting the truth; that all conjectures and all suppositions were fixed on Champmathieu, and that there is nothing so headstrong as suppositions and conjectures; that accordingly there was no danger.†
Chpt 1.7accordingly = in keeping with or in agreement with what was just stated
- , the grand age; a theatre, the temple of Melpomene; the reigning family, the august blood of our kings; a concert, a musical solemnity; the General Commandant of the province, the illustrious warrior, who, etc.; the pupils in the seminary, these tender levities; errors imputed to newspapers, the imposture which distills its venom through the columns of those organs; etc. The lawyer had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the apples,—an awkward matter couched in fine style; but Benigne Bossuet himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral oration, and he extricated himself from the situation in stately fashion.†
Chpt 1.7
- "I would remind the district-attorney," said the President, "that Police-Inspector Javert, recalled by his duties to the capital of a neighboring arrondissement, left the court-room and the town as soon as he had made his deposition; we have accorded him permission, with the consent of the district-attorney and of the counsel for the prisoner."†
Chpt 1.7accorded = given/gave special treatment
- The prisoner had listened to them, with that astounded face which was, according to the accusation, his principal means of defence; at the first, the gendarmes, his neighbors, had heard him mutter between his teeth: "Ah, well, he's a nice one!" after the second, he said, a little louder, with an air that was almost that of satisfaction, "Good!" at the third, he cried, "Famous!"†
Chpt 1.7according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- The order for his arrest was accordingly despatched.†
Chpt 1.8accordingly = in keeping with or in agreement with what was just stated
- He did not proceed according to his custom, he did not enter into the matter, he exhibited no warrant of arrest.†
Chpt 1.8according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- The fire preyed upon his feet, of which only the blackened stumps are now to be seen; then it stopped,— a miracle, according to the assertion of the people of the neighborhood.†
Chpt 2.1
- All this was contained in that battle, according to Napoleon.†
Chpt 2.1
- The retreat, according to many a man versed in the art,—though it is disputed by others,—would have been a disorganized flight.†
Chpt 2.1
- From Vert-Coucou to Groentendael, for a distance of nearly two leagues in the direction of Brussels, according to the testimony of eye-witnesses who are still alive, the roads were encumbered with fugitives.†
Chpt 2.1
- Through the shades of twilight they could hear the pieces being loaded; the matches all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round their heads; all the lintstocks of the English batteries approached the cannons, and then, with emotion, holding the supreme moment suspended above these men, an English general, Colville according to some, Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave Frenchmen!"†
Chpt 2.1
- Through the shades of twilight they could hear the pieces being loaded; the matches all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round their heads; all the lintstocks of the English batteries approached the cannons, and then, with emotion, holding the supreme moment suspended above these men, an English general, Colville according to some, Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave Frenchmen!"†
Chpt 2.1
- On one side, precision, foresight, geometry, prudence, an assured retreat, reserves spared, with an obstinate coolness, an imperturbable method, strategy, which takes advantage of the ground, tactics, which preserve the equilibrium of battalions, carnage, executed according to rule, war regulated, watch in hand, nothing voluntarily left to chance, the ancient classic courage, absolute regularity; on the other, intuition, divination, military oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable something which gazes like an eagle, and which strikes like the lightning, a prodigious art in disdainfu†
Chpt 2.1
- The marauders in the train of an army were more or less in number, according as the chief was more or less severe.†
Chpt 2.1according = in keeping with; in agreement/harmony/unity with
- Accordingly, enormous efforts are made.†
Chpt 2.2accordingly = in keeping with or in agreement with what was just stated
- Every day, accordingly, from morning until night, the quays, sluices, and the jetties of the port of Toulon were covered with a multitude of idlers and loungers, as they say in Paris, whose business consisted in staring at the Orion.†
Chpt 2.2
- The hull had received no damage on the starboard, but some of the planks had been unnailed here and there, according to custom, to permit of air entering the hold.†
Chpt 2.2according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- In addition to his other qualities, Thenardier was attentive and penetrating, silent or talkative, according to circumstances, and always highly intelligent.†
Chpt 2.3
- Cosette, according to her custom whenever the Thenardier uplifted her voice, emerged with great haste from beneath the table.†
Chpt 2.3
- The traveller recalled the graceful and immemorial custom in accordance with which children place their shoes in the chimney on Christmas eve, there to await in the darkness some sparkling gift from their good fairy.†
Chpt 2.3accordance = keeping with; or agreement with
- All this was dark, disagreeable, wan, melancholy, sepulchral; traversed according as the crevices lay in the roof or in the door, by cold rays or by icy winds.†
Chpt 2.4according = in keeping with; in agreement/harmony/unity with
- Now, according to local tradition, this Maitre Gorbeau had been the proprietor of the building numbered 50-52 on the Boulevard de l'Hopital.†
Chpt 2.4according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- Opposite this house, among the trees of the boulevard, rose a great elm which was three-quarters dead; almost directly facing it opens the Rue de la Barriere des Gobelins, a street then without houses, unpaved, planted with unhealthy trees, which was green or muddy according to the season, and which ended squarely in the exterior wall of Paris.†
Chpt 2.4
- The man seemed engaged in prayer, according to his custom, and was much bent over.†
Chpt 2.4
- The point of Paris where Jean Valjean found himself, situated between the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and la Rapee, is one of those which recent improvements have transformed from top to bottom,— resulting in disfigurement according to some, and in a transfiguration according to others.†
Chpt 2.5
- The point of Paris where Jean Valjean found himself, situated between the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and la Rapee, is one of those which recent improvements have transformed from top to bottom,— resulting in disfigurement according to some, and in a transfiguration according to others.†
Chpt 2.5
- He rummaged in the one or the other, according to circumstances.†
Chpt 2.5
- They are clothed in black, with a guimpe, which, in accordance with the express command of Saint-Benoit, mounts to the chin.†
Chpt 2.6accordance = keeping with; or agreement with
- If it is eight o'clock, "At eight o'clock and at all hours!" and so on, according to the hour.†
Chpt 2.6according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
Definitions:
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(1)
(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
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(2)
(accord as in: reached an accord) an agreementIn this sense, accord can refer to a formal agreement (such as one written between two countries) or an informal agreement (such as an unvoiced consensus about what should be done).
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(3)
(accord as in: done of her own accord) mindThis sense of accord is typically seen in the form own accord or one accord.
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(4)
(accord as in: accord her the respect deserved) to give someone special treatment -- especially respect
- (5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)