1909, Ambrose Bierce, "What I Saw of Shiloh" in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. I:Here in the night stretches a wide and blasted field studded with half-extinct fires burning redly with I know not what presage of evil. . . . To what monstrous inharmony of death was it the visible prelude?
1912, Rex Ellingwood Beach, The Iron Trail: An Alaskan Romance, ch. 22:Tom Slater made a congratulatory speech—in reality, a mournful adjuration to avoid the pitfalls of matrimonial inharmony.
