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... 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. ...

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...ld of Liloa.” In many cases the definite article “ka” becomes a part of the name and hence the preponderance in Hawaiian of names beginning with this syllable. Since recognition of its composition is essential to its proper accent, in cases where this is known with a good degree of probability through native informants, the name has been hyphenated upon its first appearanc...

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...d England. Squares can be any size the rules are that each poem is as many syllables per line as the number of lines in the poem and each starts wit...

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...ters -- 8 —10 -- Of the Vowel Sounds -- 11 -- Of the Consonant Sounds -- 13 -- Of the Sounds of Foreign Consonants -- 14 Of Diphthongs -- 15—18 -- Of Syllables -- 19—23 -- Of Words -- 24—26 -- Formation of Words -- 27—36 -- Peculiarities in the Use of Words -- 37—40 -- Of Accents—General Law -- 41—45 -- Letters Dropped -- 46 -- Letters Inserted -- 48 -- Etymology Definitio...

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...o inscribe wedge-shaped pictographs. Each character represented a word or syllable according to the position in which it pointed. The tablets were t... .... As noted previously, all those languages scripted symbols for words or syllables. Some read from left to right, others right to left or from top ... ...ne the answers. Most words in ancient China could be spoken with a single syllable, so it‘s logical that the written language is logographic (i.e., ... ...language is logographic (i.e., each character represents a single word or syllable). (Our English is mainly a language of sound symbols, but we rea... ...and the dollar sign.) In Chinese, some characters represent same-sounding syllables with different meanings. To become literate in Chinese, one mu... ... meanings. To become literate in Chinese, one must memorize thousands of syllables rather than just the few dozen letters needed for phonetic alpha...

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... procedure. The point of concentration can be a mantra (a special selected syllable, word or name), a picture or small statue, or simply staring off i... ...on a level with the navel. In this lotus, shining like the sun, stands the syllable ram. Above ram is the syllable ma. From ma, Dorjee Naljorma (a fem... ...lable ma. From ma, Dorjee Naljorma (a feminine deity) issues. These mystic syllables, which are called “seed,” must not be regarded as mere written ch...

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...dle to it. But I promise you, on the faith of a gentleman, that no word or syllable that could tend to your prejudice shall ever escape my lips, provi... ...11 Anne Brontë glimpse of my feelings appear) I could only answer by mono- syllables. Whether she intended to torment me, or merely to amuse herself, ...

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...re. Of Humfrey Talbot, Queen Mary scorned to say any- thing, or to utter a syllable that she thought a daughter of Scotland needed a warning against a... ...probably steeled himself to her blandishments, for nothing but gruff mono- syllables could be extracted from him, except when he fi- nally asked what ...

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...n aunts? and you’re all chattering so, you young women, that not a blessed syllable will you allow me or my young friend here to speak.” Lady Jane gav... ...htened, and looked imploringly at her sister, and never dared to breathe a syllable. “Y es, indeed,” continued Lady Fanny, “Mr. Titmarsh is a cousin o... ...ers to pro- vide for; and I will thank you, Mr. Smithers, not to breathe a syllable to her regarding my present situation.” 98 The History of Samuel ...

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...she liked. ‘For the first two years,’ she resumed, ‘I could hardly speak a syllable. I stammered, I reddened, I longed to be up in my room brushing an...

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... admiration, were not much edified, as they really understood not a single syllable of all he had said, he pro ceeded to business, which he was more ... ...luded, if Mr. Jones ever offends here after, I shall not be able to say a syllable in his favour.” As to Squire Western, he was seldom out of the s... ...tood?”—”No, really,” answered the lieutenant, “I cannot say I understand a syllable.”—”Well, sir,” said the surgeon, “then I shall not tire your patie... ...wered she, “as I hope to be saved, and may the devil fetch me if I speak a syllable more than the truth, I have heard her mention Mr. Jones; but in a ... ...ing away the reputation of a mam who never injured me? I promise you every syllable of what I have said is fact, and the whole country knows it.” As... ... street, that I heard nothing of his disappoint ment, nor did I mention a syllable at the bar, according to my instructions. “We now went directly ... ...room than while he acquainted us with his news; and then, without saying a syllable to his patient on any other subject, departed to spread his advice...

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... Why stay we, then? TROILUS: To make a recordation to my soul Of every syllable that here was spoke. But if I tell how these two did co act, Sha...

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...ay, to-night, and pollute the place no more.” She had never once uttered a syllable of unkindness to Harry Esmond; and her cruel words smote the poor ...

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...volo!” said the soldier, “and I have got no pass-word. I could not speak a syllable of their salvage gibberish, an it were to save me from the provost...

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...ll the infinite floods of Juridical and other ingenuity and oratory, be no syllable reported in this His- tory. Lawyer ingenuity is good: but what can...

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...f me, think how I have worked, think of my many cares!’ But she said not a syllable herself. There was a reproach in the touch so addressed to him tha... ...kens bad! Another time! Bar was truly repentant, and would not say another syllable. Would Bishop favour him with half-a- dozen words? (He had now set...

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...erences to Scripture passages, most books of the Bible having more than one syllable, as follows: Gen. Ex. Lev. Num. Deut. Josh. Judg. Ruth ... ...bilant, if monosyllabic, by adding an apostrophe and s; if of more than one syllable, by adding an apostrophe alone: King James's Version, Bums's p... ... formed by the aid of an apostrophe and s; of proper nouns of more than one syllable ending in a sibilant, by adding an apostrophe alone (mono- syl... ... HYPHENS- 166. A hyphen is placed at the end of a line terminating with a syllable of a word, the remainder of which is carried to the next line (... ...ne compact word, without a hyphen, when the prefixed noun contains only one syllable, should be hyphenated when it contains two, and 62 The Univer... ...Compounds of "store" should be hyphenated when the prefix contains only one syllable; otherwise not: drug-store, feed-store (but: bookstore); grocer... ...), world-power, world- problem. 177. Compounds of "skin" with words of one syllable are to he printed as one word; with words of more than one, as... ... with "fold" are to be printed as one word, if the number contains only one syllable; if it contains more, as two : twofold, tenfold; fifteen fold,... ...e" to a noun are usually printed as one word if the noun contains only one syllable (except when ending in I); if it contains more (or is a proper ...

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...ge of the aboriginal population—a single language that is phonetically simple and easily identifiable by the paucity of sounds and the lack of closed syllables and consonant clusters. On the Mainland, place names have been taken from a great many languages—some of them European—but a large proportion are from the languages of the first inhabitants, the American Indians. Th...

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...may celebrate rank, status or magnificent achievement. Typical of traditional compositions, there is no rhyme, but there is extensive use of echoing syllables and links between lines through shared meaning or opposition. Importantly, the density of metaphor and allusion found in poetry prior to the era of Kalakaua's reign (1874—1891) is much reduced by the end of the 19...

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...ce as you would the English word wrong, supposing that it had for a second syllable the final a of ‘sopha,’ i.e., Wronguh), has been found a wrong-hea... ...in the eldest times just as it is now, viz. as a dissyllable, 2 the first syllable sounding exactly like the ca- thedral city Wells, in Somersetshire... ...ce their name trisyllabically (as strangers often suppose), but as the two syllables Anns lea, accent on the first. 3 Which adopted neither view; for... ...rse. Contribution, which now is necessar- ily pronounced as a word of four syllables, would then, in verse, have five, being read into con-tri-bu-ce-o... ...s, which I do not remember literatim, is such metrically as to require two syllables for aches. But how, then, was this to be pronounced? Kemble thoug...