| 1. | A harsh discordant natal scream out-sounding, to touch the mother'. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | "Nor jompre eke no discordant thing y-fere. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 3. | The discordant tones of the voices and instruments drew nearer, and now droning songs mingled with the sound of the tambourines and cymbals. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |
| 4. | The vestibule was filled with the discordant sounds of a struggle and of a tipsy, hoarse voice. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 5. | Nature ever Finding discordant fortune, like all seed Out of its proper climate, thrives but ill. - from The Divine Comedy, Complete by Dante Alighieri |
| 6. | As she rocked her little ones, the mother hummed in a discordant voice a romance then celebrated-. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | Sikes struck, by way of Chiswell Street, into Barbican thence into Long Lane, and so into Smithfield from which latter place arose a tumult of discordant sounds that filled Oliver Twist with amazement. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 8. | All sudden and unaccountable sounds which startle travellers in lonely spots, were attributed to Pan, who possessed a frightful and most discordant voice hence the term _pan_ic terror, to indicate sudden fear. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 9. | There was a discordant hum of human voices There was a loud blast as of many trumpets There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders The fiery walls rushed back An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |