The shrill, long-drawn winding of the call which the callous boatswain sounded in bitter mockery was answered by an echo from twenty voices, in which the accents of nearly as many different people mingled in hoarse Discordancy, as they shouted,- "To the yard-arm!
"The Red Rover"
James Fenimore Cooper
The word slaves was avoided, on account of the existing toleration of slavery, and its Discordancy with the principles of the Revolution; and from a consciousness of its being repugnant to those propositions to the Declaration of Independence:-'We hold these truths to be self-evident-that all men are created equal-that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights-and that, among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
"The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus"
American Anti-Slavery Society
Its atmosphere was therefore utterly at variance with the cheap atheism of the modern world, and it was this Discordancy which struck so sharply on Maryllia's emotional nature and gave her such a sense of unaccustomed pain.
"God's Good Man"
Marie Corelli