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It is a concordance of the complete works of Shakespeare.
concordance = an index of all main words in a book or body of work along with the immediate contexts where each word is found and/or an indication of where to find the context
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- There were certain concordances.† (source)
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There is a strong concordance of views between the United States and countries in Western Europe.
concordance = agreement
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- Then: 'What's a concordance?'† (source)
- The priest murmured in concordance.† (source)
- Their eyes met in a gentle and satisfied concordance as the music danced from their fingertips.† (source)
- He walked slowly amid the guests of the French Academy, seeking anchors for his racing thought-a dark waving branch with waxen leaves, a sight of the stars through a cut in the trees, a girl throwing back her hair to the irresistible rhythm of the song, a concordance of colors compressed in a torchlit line of sight, the stirrings of women in their silken clothing.† (source)
- Run get me my Concordance," she'd say, referring to a little book bound in thin leather, falling apart.† (source)
- At last he said: 'I'll need all the Misery books, if you've got them, because I don't have my concordance.'† (source)
- She did not want to hear about his concordance and indices because to her Misery and the characters surrounding her were perfectly real.† (source)
- He heard Saphira and Glaedr hum in concordance, a deep pulse so strong that it vibrated within his bones and made his skin tingle and the air shimmer.† (source)
- Though his passage through the system was brutal, the cadre only went so far with him, and then, as if they hadsigned a secret concordance, they would pull back from him in common recognition of their limits.† (source)
- …the almost level floor of the canyon, the banks of soft earth, the thickets and the clumps of cotton-woods, the shelving caverns and the bulging walls—these features gradually were lost, and Nonnezoshe Boco began to deepen in bare red and white stone steps, the walls sheered away from one another, breaking into sections and ledges, and rising higher and higher, and there began to be manifested a dark and solemn concordance with the nature that had created this rent in the earth.† (source)
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- An oaken, broken, elbow-chair; A caudle-cup without an ear; A battered, shattered ash bedstead; A box of deal without a lid; A pair of tongs, but out of joint; A back-sword poker, without point; A dish which might good meat afford once; An Ovid, and an old Concordance.† (source)
- …of his bedding, his clothing and his blankets, then his herbariums and prints; but he still retained his most precious books, many of which were of the greatest rarity, among others, Les Quadrins Historiques de la Bible, edition of 1560; La Concordance des Bibles, by Pierre de Besse; Les Marguerites de la Marguerite, of Jean de La Haye, with a dedication to the Queen of Navarre; the book de la Charge et Dignite de l'Ambassadeur, by the Sieur de Villiers Hotman; a Florilegium Rabbinicum…† (source)
- The weight of the insect was very remarkable, and, taking all things into consideration, I could hardly blame Jupiter for his opinion respecting it; but what to make of Legrand's concordance with that opinion, I could not, for the life of me, tell.† (source)
- And as the ends and ultimates of all things accord in some mean and measure with their inceptions and originals, that same multiplicit concordance which leads forth growth from birth accomplishing by a retrogressive metamorphosis that minishing and ablation towards the final which is agreeable unto nature so is it with our subsolar being.† (source)
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