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...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...

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... 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...

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...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...

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... 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...

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...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...

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...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 ...

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...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...

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...ixing of those great dark eyes was suf- ficient to cut off Pa—at its first syllable, and turn it into a faltering “my uncle;” and that, though Kate’s ... ...d by the discomfort of seeing some strangers looking surprised at the five syllables in the squeaky voice coming out of the mouth of so small a lady. ... ... that darling Lady Caergwent might be called K, her initial, and the first syllable of her title. It was the cleverest invention Sylvia had ever made;...

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...Garnham, Bachelor of Arts. I print the legend partly to refresh my own memory, too, for I have never read it before. 69 A Tramp Abroad THE LEGEND LOR... ...er. Therefore, if your case be like mine, you two fools stand there, and without perceptible emotion of any kind, or any 101 A Tramp Abroad emphasis ... ...has been hollowed out of the rock to protect it from the torrent and the storms. Our old guide never spoke but when spoken to, and then limited himsel... ...roposed, in the best Ger- man he could command, to “verheirathen” that house. Then there are some words which mean one thing when you em- phasize the... ...n there are some words which mean one thing when you em- phasize the first syllable, but mean something very different if you throw the emphasis on th... ... This was the word damit. It was only the sound that helped him, not the meaning;* and so, at last, when he learned that the empha- sis was not on the...

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...er had ever before heard conveyed so much meaning so simply, and in so few syllables. It illuminated the long vista of the past, and cast a gloomy sha...

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... at all conscious of a sound-like absur- dity in a Christian name of three syllables preceding a sur- name of one? Sir T wickenham Pryme! Cornelia’s p... ...et me call you so!” “Will you see that you can’t have him?” he stamped the syllables into her ears: and, with a notion of there being a foreign elemen... ...light my own. There’s a dear!” A shouting was in his ears, which seemed to syllable dis- tinctly: “If she goes at once, I’m safe.” The sight of pain a... ...from town, had each shown a blank face, or had been doubt- ful of the next syllable. Of Wilfrid, Emilia, and Mr. Pole, question and answer were interc... ...nd. I ventured on it, and it was repeated; and I heard that I had missed a syllable. Ask C. to look it out—I mean, to tell me they mining on a little ...

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...ies the journals. He has got your journalistic style, wherein words of six syllables form the relief to words of eight, and hardly one dares to stand ... ...mething, because you read books and frequent the talking theatres—fourteen syllables to a word. Mother of heaven! will you never learn anything from n... ...he’s there, in Worms —your Bormio. Found her at the big hotel: spoke not a syllable; stole away, stole away. One chopin of wine! I’m off on four legs ... .... “There has been a battle,” she said. Her lips hardly joined to frame the syllables in speech. Merthyr refrained from asking where she had heard of t...

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...ver so much as moves from his place.” “Who is it?” “A man.” Never were two syllables pronounced in so tragic a man- ner. At this moment we were about ...

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... the little truth That can for long keep footing under that When its slack syllables tighten to a thought? Here, let me write it down! I wish to see J...

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...raffe.’ ‘Has it not another name, sir? A short or a long one, more or less syllables!’ ‘Camelopard. A polysyllabic word, certainly,’ said Algernon, lo... ...pard. Y es, it is a polysyllable’— as, indeed, he had added an unnecessary syllable. ‘Most assuredly,’ said the showman, looking daggers at his suffoc... ...tening to my maun- dering, when Winifred wants you. Oh! why did that Poly- syllable ever come near the place?’ Mr. Ferrars said the kindest and most c... ...clouds at Lucy swooning on the sofa, while the lofty presence of the Poly- syllable discharged the fluid from the inkstand. ‘Did Mr. O’More give you t...

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... colonel to come into the cloak room, and I showed him the note. ‘There is a syllable wanting,’ said he, with a gloomy brow. ‘Hah! What syllable?’ was...

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... from a daughter to her father.” And he read, oddly accentuating the first syllables of the sentences:— Dear Father,— “My husband will bring me t... ...s hand with great apparent scrupulousness; not, in reality, seeing a clear syllable. 269 George Meredith “Take it and change it,” he threw his Five h...

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...your angry father, if my tongue Did ere solicit, or my hand subscribe To any syllable that made love to you. THAISA: Why, sir, say if you had, Who ta... ...elieve me, ‘twere best I did give o’er. PERICLES: I will believe you by the syllable Of what you shall deliver. Yet, give me leave: How came you in t...

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...the matter well, when I find the ass in compound with the major part of your syllables: and though I must be content to bear with those that say you ... ... with such words that are but rooted in Your tongue, though but bastards and syllables Of no allowance to your bosom’s truth. Now, this no more dishon...

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...esounds 1821 As if it felt with Scotland, and yell’d out 1822 Like Syllable of Dolour. 1823 Mal. What I beleeue, Ile waile; 1824 W... ...53 - The Tragedie of Macbeth Shakespeare: First Folio 2342 To the last Syllable of Recorded time: 2343 And all our yesterdayes, haue lighted F...

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...id, with the sweetest inflection of her young voice. She added to the last syllable a wonderfully executed trill, in a very low tone, as if to depict ...