I mean that in music, for instance, the writers of the stricter ancient music might have seen that the art was likely to develop a greater intricacy of form, an increased richness of harmony, a larger use of discords, Suspensions, and chromatic intervals, a tendency to conceal superficial form rather than to emphasise it, and so forth.
"The Silent Isle"
Arthur Christopher Benson
Somewhere a gipsy orchestra, full of fitful crescendoes and throbbing Suspensions of caprice, furnished resonant accompaniment to the joyous clamour; the scent of fountain spray and flowers was in the air.
"The Fighting Chance"
Robert W. Chambers
By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against monopolies, trial by juries in all cases, no Suspensions of the habeas corpus, no standing armies.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson