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For the reissue, Cale added eight new tracks: some alternative versions—including a second, more jarring “Heartbreak Hotel,” with distorted strings and other inconsonant noises—and some songs that didn’t make the original cut.

Chapter after chapter might be written upon the annals of Port Arthur, but they would be inconsonant with the tone attempted to be given to these pages.

Respectful as Lincoln was for all that he found thus fundamentally prescribed, and heedful as he was to indulge in no executive liberty inconsonant with those express decrees, he found his fortune as chief executive forcing him to move where all explicit regulations failed to specify the path.

Inconsonant, in-kon′sō-nant, adj. not consonant.—n.

But James's willingness to be pallbearer at the funeral of a philosophic idea was not inconsonant with his determination that some other ideas of doubtful character should be allowed to grow up and thrive.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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