..., 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. ...

...aks a particular language. The only differences are in the spacing of the syllables and in the tune. Languages are melodic in different ways but the ...

... — “because he does not write with ease. He studies too much for words of four syllables. — Do not you, Darcy?” “My stile of writing is very different... ...nkinson to make up her party. Their table was superlatively stupid. Scarcely a syllable was uttered that did not relate to the game, except when Mrs. ... ...ties, by which some part of her fam ily were connected with that corps. Not a syllable had ever reached her of Miss Darcy’s meditated elopement. To n... ...aid, ‘Lately, George Wickham Esq. to Miss Lydia Bennet,’ without there being a syllable said of her father, or the place where she lived, or any thing... ...eir situation was awkward enough; but her’s she thought was still worse. Not a syllable was uttered by either; and Elizabeth was on the point of going... ...ry; for on first hearing it, Mrs. Bennet sat quite still, and unable to utter a syllable. Nor was it under many, many minutes, that she could comprehen...

... half of each line contains four accents, the fourth falling upon the last syllable. This last stress, however, is not, as a rule as strong as the oth... ...y of the “Nibelungen” strophe is the frequent omis- sion of the unaccented syllable in the second half of the last line of the strophe between the sec... ...rman form is “Ute”, but in order to insure its being pro- nounced with two syllables, the form “Uta” was chosen. (10) “Dankrat” (M.H.G. “Dancrat”) app...

...ack, thinking that he meant her, and his languid circulation had dropped a syllable. “Doc- tor,” he returns, with a pathos calculated to draw a tear ... ...It was a moving meeting for all the three parties concerned. I knew every syllable that passed between them as well as they did. I listened with my ...

...; but Glennard dared not even glance at the cover, lest it should show the syllables he feared. The train was full of people they knew, and they were ...

...dinner party, each in an opposite corner of the coach, and do not exchange a syllable until they have been seated for at least twenty min utes by the...

...which indeed we had not scrupled to prefix a certain hard little word of one syllable and three letters—when our fair friend, unable to maintain the c...

...ood cigar-ash.) Eh, wha-at? Oh, yes, of course. What did you say? DOCTOR. (Syllable by syllable.) Go—in—to—the— room—and—see—her. She wants to speak t... ...und that meaning in it; but their translation was refined and full of four-syllable words. They held a sederunt, and were filled with tremulous joy, f...

...r to you by him who died for us that naught shall induce me to breathe one syllable to my jailers; but I conjure you do not abandon me. If you do, I s... ...he plain around her, and pressed closely against her guide, not uttering a syllable; but as she saw him ad- vance with even step and composed countena... ...i, that I did not sooner assist you in your distress. He did not mention a syllable of your embarrassment to me, when he knows that, alone and isolate...

...permaceti was that quickening humor of the Greenland Whale which the first syllable of the word literally expresses. In those times, also, spermaceti ... ...en enough to split the planets and make an infidel of Abraham, and not one syllable is thine!” “Sail ho!” cried a triumphant voice from the main-mast-...

...spermaceti was that quickening humor of the Greenland Whale which the first syllable of the word literally expresses. In those times, also, spermaceti ... ...een enough to split the planets and make an infidel of Abraham, and not one syllable is thine!” “Sail ho!” cried a triumphant voice from the main mast ...