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Concordances perform a “half-remembered / worthy service”; they also help us fathom the wider field on which we come to speak at all.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2020

Poetical Concordances and Dictionaries of Quotations, both prose and poetry, are useful, though very rarely does one find the quotation required in any professed book of quotations.

From The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books by Humphreys, Arthur Lee

The Concordances are all bound in velvet or leather, and are nearly all stamped with designs in gold, on much the same plan. 

From Little Gidding and its inmates in the Time of King Charles I. with an account of the Harmonies by Acland, John Edward

The workmanship of the Concordances was so excellent in every detail, even to the paste used for their construction, that the volumes may well last for another period of 250 years. 

From Little Gidding and its inmates in the Time of King Charles I. with an account of the Harmonies by Acland, John Edward

By far the greater number deal with the Gospels of the four Evangelists, but in addition to these there are Concordances of the Books of Kings and Chronicles, and the five Books of Moses.

From Little Gidding and its inmates in the Time of King Charles I. with an account of the Harmonies by Acland, John Edward