...Mary Godolphin was the pseudonym of Lucy Aikin who undertook translating great literature into single-syllable words so that young readers could enjoy plots that were considerably more interesting than, say, the McGuffey readers of the 1880's or the Dick and Jane primers of the 1950s (still around today as decodable readers i...

...Sound me ---------- Sound me. Am I not round in your mouth? Do I split your lips? Make you spit? Do I make you bite your tongue? Push the syllables out wrongly? Do I make you gnash? Tangle you in a toothed trap? Sound me. I am round in your mouth. I make yours’ open with a pout. Make you lovingly form me And long to breathe me out. ...

...ned to the boy and asked him his name. The boy smiled and said an easy two-syllable name, Nawin. It seemed like an easy name for a foreigner to rememb...

..., Mr Soames,” she said, in a way that made James think she was banging out each syllable with a hammer and chisel. “Philip should be in a private r...

... yes. Very well, thank you." And so proper, she thought, enunciating every syllable, rarely using contractions. He was going to keep her on her P's an...

...er get ready for the baby, okay?” “Okay,” Laura replied, dragging ouch each syllable. Julia saw the expression on her face change and braced hersel...

...rom the windowpane, to exit and meet him in the dusk. My grandmother didn't utter a single syllable as she fastened the blinders in his face. Janusz... ...nd everyone hummed in consent. "Poor Dinah" – sighed another aunt, summing in these three syllables her entire shrivelling misery. It was stuffy a... ...e doesn't even notice Mayer who occupies a seat beside him. His lips give shape to writhing syllables. Mayer regards his efforts with nauseated fasc... ...my first words? Silence. I said zilch, nada, nothing. Having deconstructed her introductory syllables, I began to survey her, limb by limb. It goes ...

... It is all in the file. He was being blackmailed by the Jews.” He wouldn’t add a syllable to this cryptic and seemingly counterfactual announceme... ...“Roth, we need to talk. Tomorrow, 9 AM, my office.” That’s Bauer all right. Not a syllable wasted, all pleasantries summarily dispensed with. ...

... for her beauty and her wit: ‘an unusual combina- tion,’ in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal ... ...rted by my mar- riage and the voyage to India. We have not yet exchanged a syllable: she was snapped up, of course, the moment she en- tered the room.... ..., Leander. I don’t think I hear myself calling to a dog in a name of three syllables. T wo at the most.’ No, so I call Hero! if I want him to come imm... .... But you speak of Miss. Paynham.’ Diana lowered her voice on half a dozen syllables, till the half-tones dropped into her steady look. ‘You approve, ... ...on in the warm sweet open air, and they walked without an interchange of a syllable through the park into the white hawthorn lane, glad to breathe. He... ... public taste of the period for our ‘vigorous homely Saxon’ in one and two syllable words, had complained of a ‘tendency to polysyllabic phraseology.’... ...ed like life itself. Not to a soul except Diana would Dacier have breathed syllable of any secret—and one of this weight! He ran down the article agai... ...th interesting subterranean facts; and there was a communication, in brief syllables and the dot language, crudely masculine. Immensely surprised, Sir...

...rter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little harm to womankind a...

...e metre of the poem proper is iambic, that is, with the accent on the even syllables, and octosyllabic, or eight syllables to the line. 29. Monan’s ri... ...wood. Note the musical variation in the measure here; the 1st, 3d, and 4th syllables being accented instead of the 2d and 4th. It is occasionally intr... ...e of this song is trochaic; that is, the accents fall regularly on the odd syllables. 631. In slumber dewing. That is, bedewing. For the meta- phor, c... ... of the song is dactylic; the accents being on the 1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th syllables. It is little used in English. Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Bri... ... solitary and melancholy mountaineer.” 161. Mankind. Accented on the first syllable; as it is almost invariably in Shakespeare, except in Timon of Ath... ...be amphibrachic; that is, made up of feet, or metrical divisions, of three syllables, the second of which is accented. Some of the lines appear to be ... ...e lines appear to be anapestic (made up of trisyllabic feet, with the last syllable accented); but the rhythm of these is amphibrachic; that is, the r... ... rhythm of these is amphibrachic; that is, the rhythmic pause is after the syllable that follows the accent. “(He) is gone on | the mountain, (Li... ...eems best to treat the rest as amphibrachic, with a superfluous unaccented syllable at the beginning of the line. Taylor adds: “The song is very caref...

... Meant in croaking Nevermore. This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom...

...rase in a word, and he will qualify the meaning of an entire sentence by a syllable; he will even convey differ- ent significations by the simplest in... ...et apart, like the youth of the royal David, for the purposes of music, no syllable of rude verse has ever profaned my lips.” “Y ou have, then, limite... ...cted for the close of his verse had been duly delivered like a word of two syllables. Such an innovation on the silence and retirement of the for- est... ...force his discipline, the voice of the singer was heard, in low, murmuring syllables, gradually stealing on the ear, until it filled the narrow vault ... ...ence, he commenced speaking with the dignity of an Indian chief. The first syllables he uttered had the effect to cause his listeners to raise themsel... ...ing in the distress of the old man, that Heyward did not dare to venture a syllable of consolation. Munro sat utterly unconscious of the other’s pres-... ...ts; and it is probably that, had Heyward neglected to inquire, not another syllable would, just then, have been uttered on the subject. “What has beco... ...tongues; that of the heart, as well as those of the mouth. But speak not a syllable; it is rare for a white voice to pitch itself properly in the wood... ...d clouds of smoke once more filled the lodge. For near half an hour, not a syllable was uttered, or scarcely a look cast aside; a grave and meditative...

...point the Infinite. Earth has divided the Word—of which I here reveal some syllables—into par- ticles, she has reduced it to dust and has scattered it... ...atsoever strikes us down and crushes us, lifts or abases us,—that is but a syllable of the Divine Word. “When a human soul draws its first furrow stra... ...d each other. Men who attain a knowl- edge of these things, who lisp a few syllables of the Word, often have not where to lay their head; hunted like ...

...nto George Darrow’s ears, ringing every change of irony on its commonplace syllables: rattling them out like a discharge of musketry, letting them, on... ...omen; but it was a sign of Mrs. Leath’s quality that every movement, every syllable, told with her. Even in the old days, as an intent grave-eyed girl... ... but what did anything matter, except that her voice should go on, and the syllables fall like soft touches on his tortured brain? “Don’t you know,” s... ...She did not understand the girl’s attitude, the edge of irony in her short syllables, the plainly premeditated determination to lay the burden of proo...