He cried repeatedly and dissonantly like a jackal. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
Sometimes, even scrying was dissonantly imprecise. From Wordnik.com. [The Spellsong War]
The knife blade clashed dissonantly against the makeshift metal shield. From Wordnik.com. [Amaryllis] Reference
The chill north wind now howled dissonantly through the splintering architecture. From Wordnik.com. [beneath an opal moon]
Taen came after, followed by the Kielmark, whose weapons and mail shirt jingled dissonantly with each stride. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowfane]
Falcor, Defalk Why does it take your sire, the powerful and wise Lord Jecks, so dissonantly long to gather his levies?. From Wordnik.com. [The Soprano Sorceress]
And in the middle of Lennie's most harmonically dissonantly beautiful passages I started hearing echoes of Ives's "indigenous grandeur.". From Wordnik.com. ["Classical" American Music, cont'd from July 5 post] Reference
Any of these chords, though, are likely to be dissonantly altered (particularly into an augmented chord) or played against another of the chords by the other guitar player. From Wordnik.com. [FallNet - was expecting a free tea kettle from Granada TV. It did not materialise.] Reference
Styles sometimes jangle dissonantly, sometimes cohere in this third iteration of the renowned quincennial exhibition, which has had a remarkable knack in the past for identifying emerging young talents in New York's five boroughs who later went on to big careers. From Wordnik.com. [ARTINFO: The Top Ten Shows to See In New York City] Reference
But letting pass their other absurdities (for our design is not to inquire what they have said amiss, but only what they have said dissonantly to themselves), consider how he always attributes to the gods specious and kind appellations, but at the same time cruel, barbarous, and Galatian deeds. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
He struck a chord, and heard it jangle dissonantly. From Wordnik.com. [Michael] Reference
It becomes dissonantly noisy, laden with electronic sounds. From Wordnik.com. [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference
"Better late than never," chanted the whole party dissonantly, and room was made for the new-comer between Brigit and Yelverton. From Wordnik.com. [The Halo] Reference
Honda Civic commercial: a dissonantly corporate move for a champion of the developing world, made worse by the justification offered that the Honda was a poor person's car. From Wordnik.com. [Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk] Reference
The flag was to be raised over the school-house, and instead of wending our way dissonantly thither, as was our habit in attending the meetings, we were to go in procession!. From Wordnik.com. [Vesty of the Basins] Reference
But Fiorina's style clanged dissonantly off HP's wonky products and the staid corporate culture that HP founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard initiated 65 years ago in a Palo Alto, Calif., garage. From Wordnik.com. [Independent Bloggers' Alliance] Reference
If you are sprung from a similar source, you can perceive how their energy reverberates in you consonantly and dissonantly, and that you can share in it more easily than when you were among more alien peoples. From Wordnik.com. [1. MajorityRights.com (main blog)] Reference
On that occasion the place had seemed strangely and dissonantly changed by the numerous children who were diverting themselves before the open door, and whose playthings and clothes strewed the house-place, and made it one busy scene of confusion and untidiness, more like the. From Wordnik.com. [Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 3] Reference
Marquis, sounded dissonantly to Adeline’s ear; she hesitated and looked at La Motte. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of the Forest] Reference
Or, should she say, dissonantly tired?. From Wordnik.com. [The Spellsong War]
Veil energies danced dissonantly on his nerves. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer's Illusion]
"dissonantly few, frigging dissonantly few.". From Wordnik.com. [The Soprano Sorceress]
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