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Overcoats — the two-woman group Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell — harmonize constantly and consonantly in the style of old-line country brother acts, from the Stanley Brothers to the Everly Brothers.

From New York Times Apr. 7, 2017

Commands succeeded admonitions, and as the only effect on the rowers was obvious recalcitrancy, oaths succeeded both: all in those throat- clearing tones to which the German language so consonantly lends itself.

From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Coke, Henry J. (Henry John)

The history belongs properly to its place; not because Æneas is the son of Venus, but because the course of events is conducted by Jupiter consonantly to the prayer of Venus.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various

And then no useless dish my table crowds; Harmonious ranged, and consonantly just.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac

To the former sense, we might be inclined to propose on the contrary part, "But sheds his might most on the morrow of May," i.e. in prose on May-day morning, consonantly to all the testimonies.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various




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