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 Corneys' kitchen in former times, than her mother's orderly and quiet abode.
"Sylvia's Lovers -- Complete"
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
So here all jars dissonantly; all is confusion, because avenged must be every violation of nature's law.
"Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862"
Adam Gurowski