He ran his pick across the strings, fingering an A minor chord.

The simple phrase vibrated through him, like a beautiful minor chord.

Daisy and marigold, hyacinth and clover were attuned to the same soothing minor chord.

An E minor chord from our friend at the piano.

He turned around, and struck a minor chord.

And then, like a minor chord, soft and plaintive, he heard Hazel's voice in bewildered accents murmur:

He strummed a minor chord, another, anoth-

He immediately struck a minor chord.

No minor chord was permitted.

She paused for a second before delivering the three concluding lines, and Eleanor ended on the piano with a throbbing minor chord.

Sudden downward-leaping notes sketching out the D- minor chord appear like flashes of light - the stars stutter to life and history begins.

He watched them walking away from him down the street, and felt a pang, like a minor chord being played inside him.

The leaves and boughs whistled in the rush of air and the waters of the creek sang a minor chord on the shallows.

In many poets, love is background, not picture, or, to change a figure as is meet, love is a minor chord in song.

His fingers slowed on the keys as the piece softened to its close, a low minor chord that echoed in the still room.

And the minor chord is in real life, never quite absent; and the minor chord is in the true human heart, never wholly absent.