1 hissed the saber against the whetstone, and suddenly Petya heard an harmonious orchestra playing some unknown, sweetly solemn hymn.
2 The voices grew in harmonious triumphant strength, and Petya listened to their surpassing beauty in awe and joy.
3 As in every large household, there were at Bald Hills several perfectly distinct worlds which merged into one harmonious whole, though each retained its own peculiarities and made concessions to the others.
4 Out of these precepts he was laboriously constructing a harmonious whole, which he desired to present to souls.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. 5 There was something indescribably harmonious and striking about her entire dress.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR 6 All was harmonious; nothing was too much alive; speech hardly amounted to a breath; the newspapers, agreeing with the salons, seemed a papyrus.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT 7 I had imbibed from her something of her nature and much of her habits: more harmonious thoughts: what seemed better regulated feelings had become the inmates of my mind.
8 He might well be a little shocked at the irregularity of my lineaments, his own being so harmonious.
9 Near the bed stood a table holding her breakfast tray, with its harmonious porcelain and silver, a handful of violets in a slender glass, and the morning paper folded beneath her letters.
10 The changes seemed beautiful and harmonious to me; it was like watching the growth of a great man or of a great idea.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContext Highlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III 11 But only do these things so that you have an integrated life, that makes a long harmonious thing.
12 Smiling champaigns of flowers and fruit hardly do this, for they are permanently harmonious only with an existence of better reputation as to its issues than the present.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression 13 You apprehend it as complex, multiple, divisible, separable, made up of its parts, the result of its parts and their sum, harmonious.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 14 Music for me unfolds her heavenly harmony.
15 But, the gramophone asserted, let us retain whatever made that harmony.