chord

When I hear a note of music, can I not at once strike its chord?

We two were wholly out of chord, be the fault whose it might.

The doctor's name struck a chord and Crawford dug deep until it focused.

There was no chord in his nature that responded to such feelings; but he said nothing in reply.

And Gervasio's words touched in my mind some chord of memory.

She looked into his eyes, and he knew he had struck the chord responsive in her soul.

And, as the chord died away, with its death there also died his passionate love.

I know not what chord in my heart responded to that sudden burst of feeling.

Saxon though he be, there's a chord in his bosom that responds to the touch of truth and honour.

The words struck some chord previously active in the brain of Crawford.