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...ired without reading; and yet cer- tain it is, Mr. Thrasher never read one syllable of the matter. This, perhaps, was a defect; but this was not all: ... ...re than scenes of tenderness. I should be glad to know, if possible, every syllable which was uttered on both sides.” “I will indulge you then,” cries... ...e content of Booth, that he was heartily concerned he had ever mentioned a syllable of the matter to his honourable friend. This chapter occurs in the... ...True, captain,” answered Mrs. Ellison; “I would rather leave the two first syllables out of the word gentleman than the last.” “Nay, I assure you,” re... ...tenant were gone out with a design of tilting, from which he offered not a syllable to dissuade them, as he was con- vinced it was right, and that Boo... ...r, or I will be cut into ten thousand pieces before I will mention another syllable.” “What shall I promise?” said Booth. “That you will not resent an... ...t civility, and all matters were accommodated without Booth ever knowing a syllable of the challenge even to this day. The doctor insisted very strong...

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... more energy than she could command to pro nounce the faint and lingering syllables. Scarcely had they loi tered through her lips ere she was lost i... ...h often ran through the sufferer’s speech, and crept between the words and syllables without interrupting their succession. “This is awful indeed!” ex...

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...uch as her lisping attempts to pronounce his name—”Christopher.” The first syllable was always more than she could manage, and she made funny little g...

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...t defiance, you should sooner have my heart out of my bosom, than a single syllable of information on subjects which I could only become acquainted wi... ..., in good Lowland Scotch, though he had never hith- erto heard her utter a syllable, save in Gaelic. But the impa- tience of his attendants prohibited...

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... also to know how to put the true natural name of each thing into sounds and syllables, and to make and give all names with a view to the ideal name, ... ...member that Cratylus – Plato 14 different legislators will not use the same syllables. For neither does every smith, although he may be making the sa... ...gislator, provided he gives the true and proper form of the name in whatever syllables; this or that country makes no matter. HERMOGENES: Quite true. ... ...y nature has, and is able to express the true forms of things in letters and syllables. HERMOGENES: I cannot answer you, Socrates; but I find Cratylus... ...the same principle the son of a king is to be called a king. And whether the syllables of the name are the same or not the same, makes no difference, ... ...urse of nature, is like the parent, and therefore has the same name. Yet the syllables may be disguised until they appear differ ent to the ignorant ... ...mortals); and there are many others which might be cited, differing in their syllables and letters, but having the same meaning. Would you not say so?... ... from a sentence into a noun, we omit one of the iotas and sound the middle syllable grave instead of acute; as, on the other hand, letters are some ... ... one letter, which is the alpha, has been omitted, and the acute on the last syllable has been changed to a grave. Cratylus – Plato 28 HERMOGENES: Wh...

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...n this she dwelt until the periods were lengthened into para- graphs, each syllable into words, and each letter into syllables. Anna Miller had furnis... ...e.” This was certainly very plain English, nor did Julia misunder- stand a syllable of what he said—but it was entirely new and unexpected to her; she... ...take my name, and take my three hundred thousand dollars!—Now don’t deny a syllable of it till I tell your answer.” Charlotte smiled, and taking her w...

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...hus, “motionless and moanless,” without a word about Christ— the slightest syllable of repentance—and with a scrap of heathen morality in his mouth, d... ...at can expect but sixty years may be ashamed to employ thirty in measuring syllables and bringing sense and rhyme together. T o spend our youth in pur... ...e to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While exp... ...heir pace. What crowds of these, impenitently bold, In sounds and jingling syllables grown old, Still run on poets, in a raging vein, 22 ‘Appius:’ De... ...cal Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One Each word-catcher, that lives on syllables, Even such small critics some regard may claim, Preserved in Milt... ...ry load. Booth enters—hark! the universal peal! ‘But has he spoken?’ Not a syllable. What shook the stage, and made the people stare? Cato’s long wig,...

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...o.” “I am perfectly satisfied of both.” 64 Sense & Sensibility “Yet not a syllable has been said to you on the subject, by either of them.” “I have n... ...as been said to you on the subject, by either of them.” “I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly. Has not his behaviour to Ma... ...attentions to her, this calmness could not have been maintained; but not a syllable escaped her lips; and the abstraction of her thoughts preserved he... ...eneral, she proportioned them to the num- ber of her ideas; and of the few syllables that did escape her, not one fell to the share of Miss Dashwood, ... ...o my cousin Lucy!—There’s for you, my dear!—And not a creature know- ing a syllable of the matter, except Nancy!—Could you have believed such a thing ... ...bout being off, and not upon his own. I will take my oath he never dropt a syllable of being tired of her, or of wishing to marry Miss Morton, or any ... ...onest. They then talked on for a few minutes longer without her catching a syllable, when another lucky stop in Marianne’s performance brought her the... ...ies sprung up from her heart, but she dared not urge one. She caught every syllable with panting eagerness; her hand, unknowingly to herself, closely ... ... no utterance, and was obliged to leave all to their own discretion. Not a syllable passed aloud. They all waited in silence for the appearance of the...

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...to Church repair, Not for the Doctrine, but the Musick there. These Equal Syllables alone require, “An Essay on Criticism” – Pope 11 Tho’ oft the... ...their Pace. What Crouds of these, impenitently bold, In Sounds and jingling Syllables grown old, Still run on Poets in a raging Vein, Ev’n to the D...

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...elf to watch them growing more reckless daily, and I not daring to speak a syllable, for fear of losing the small power I still retained over the unfr... ...tempt, but I dare not repeat it! Only, Ellen, promise you’ll not mention a syllable of his infamous conversation to my brother or Catherine. Whatever ... ...‘I’ve tied his tongue,’ observed Heathcliff. ‘He’ll not ven- ture a single syllable all the time! Nelly, you recollect meat his age -nay, some years y... ...ey did not seem hers: she evidently re- garded what she had heard as every syllable true. The master had retired to rest before we came in. Cathy stol... ...Pray let us hear you—you ARE grown clever!” ‘He spelt, and drawled over by syllables, the name— “Hareton Earnshaw.” ‘“And the figures?” I cried, encou... ...ce, by a threat that I should be shown into a room by myself the very next syllable I uttered. It was grow- ing dark—we heard a sound of voices at the... ...ness had deserted him: he could not summon cour- age, at first, to utter a syllable in reply to her questioning look, and her murmured petition. ‘Say ... ...t between him and Hareton: indeed, I don’t believe she has ever breathed a syllable, in the latter’s hearing, against her oppressor since. When this s...

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...d something. A faint voice an swered something. Little more than a single syllable could have been spoken on either side. He looked back over his sho... ...ep the register in her memory alone, she would not lose a word of it not a syllable of it. Knitted, in her own stitches and her own symbols, it will a... ... name was, over the water.” “No?” “No. But I’ll swear it was a name of two syllables.” “Indeed?” “Yes. T’other one’s was one syllable. I know you. You... ...ever in that there coffin. Let him say he was, in so much as a word of one syllable, and I’ll either catch hold of his throat and choke him for half a... ...“She lingered for a week. T owards the last, I could under stand some few syllables that she said to me, by placing my ear close to her lips. She ask...

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... be a person of quality, made me a long speech, whereof I understood not one syllable. But I should have mentioned, that before the principal person b... ...ke often to me, and I returned answers: but neither of us could understand a syllable. There were several of his priests and lawyers present (as I con... ... of artists, very dexterous in finding out the mysterious meanings of words, syllables, and letters: for instance, they can discover a close stool, to... ...ked together for some time in their own language, whereof I understood not a syllable, neither could I observe by their counte nances, what impressio...

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...because he does not write with ease. He studies too much for words of four syllables. Do not you, Darcy?” “My style of writing is very different from ... ...son 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. Jenk... ...ies by which some part of her family were connected with that corps. Not a syllable had ever reached her of Miss Darcy’s meditated elopement. T o no c... ...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. It... ...situation was awkward enough; but her’s she thought was still worse. Not a syllable was ut- tered by either; and Elizabeth was on the point of going a... ...or 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 comprehend wha...

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...it all.” Rebecca kissed her. And regarding this delightful secret, not one syllable more was said by either of the young women. But it was destined to... ...ich the worthy parson read in his best voice and without understanding one syllable of it. He had Pitt Crawley for one of his auditors—Pitt, who had c... ...s going to use that awful weapon. Hassan from within bawls out, “First two syllables”—and Mrs. Rawdon Crawley, who is going to act in the charade, com... ... dancing, like Papageno and the Moorish King in The Magic Flute. “Last two syllables,” roars the head. The last act opens. It is a Grecian tent this t... ...rmers disappeared to get ready for the sec- ond charade-tableau. The three syllables of this charade were to be depicted in pantomime, and the perform... ...n pantomime, and the performance took place in the follow- ing wise: First syllable. Colonel Rawdon Crawley, C.B., with a slouched hat and a staff, a ... ...Dormez, dormez, chers Amours. A voice from behind the curtain says, “First syllable.” 527 Thackeray Second syllable. The lamps are lighted up all of ... ...e curtains close, and the invis- ible theatrical manager cries out “Second syllable.” “I think it must be ‘Hotel,’ “ says Captain Grigg of the Life Gu... ...he Captain’s cleverness. He is not very far from the mark. While the third syllable is in preparation, the band begins a nautical medley—”All in the D...

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...rriet’s notes and comments, given in a pert shrill, high key, and by a few syllables in answer from Lady Merton and Mrs. Woodbourne. The two gentlemen... ...n Helen looks like the picture of offended dignity if you presume to say a syllable con- 192 ABBEYCHURCH trary to some of her opinions, or i...

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...further add,’ said Mr George, nodding his head vio- lently at every second syllable; ‘naming no names, and therefore hurting nobody but those whose co... ...to his charge, and beseeching Mr Chuzzlewit in a whisper never to reveal a syllable of what he had just told him in the fullness of his heart, Tom led... ...t word he learnt to spell was ‘gain,’ and the second (when he got into two syllables), ‘money.’ But for two results, which were not clearly foreseen p... ... saying it, which was odd enough for he emphasised all the small words and syllables in his dis- course, and left the others to take care of themselve... ...s, yes, but I won’t be doubted. No one shall have it in his power to say a syllable against me,’ he returned. ‘I know how people will talk. Just as if... ... to which the usage of gossips has given that name which expresses, in two syllables, the curse pronounced on Adam. It chanced that Mrs Gamp had not b... ...subject. Nor did he receive his companion’s announcement with one solitary syllable, good, bad, or indifferent. He preserved this taciturnity for a qu... ...en at last he laid his hand upon the whisperer’s mouth, appalled, lest any syllable of what he said should reach the ears of the third person present,... ... not a-calculating for our- selves;’ he laid uncommon emphasis on the last syllable of that word, and looked full in Martin’s face; ‘we’re making a ef...

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... he would, in our horror of the murder- ous slashes of the cane; and not a syllable did Heriot utter. T emple and I started up, unaware of what we wer... ...’s Harry Richmond come to see you. Where are you!’ I did utter something—a syllable or two: ‘Make haste!’ I think the words were. They sprang from my ... ...my word of honour as a man and a British officer, I don’t under- stand one syllable of what you’re saying; but if it means any insinuation against the... ...h him to the Mint! and, with your permission, we will confiscate the first syllable of his name, while we consign him to oblivion, with a hip, hip, hi... ... and was indeed a spectacle for an enemy. His con- vulsed frame rocked the syllables, as with a groan, unpleas- ant to hear, he called on my aunt Doro... ...l!— only, for the love of heaven, madam,’—he bowed vaguely to Janet ‘not a syllable of this to the princess, or we are de- stroyed. I have a great bel...

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... for them we may be good and happy without riches, Fred. Say not another syllable. I know my cue; smart is the word. Only one little whis per, Fred... ...to be adopted to the present occasion. Will you allow me to whisper half a syllable, sir?’ Without waiting for the permission he sought, Mr Swiveller ... ...as ‘laughing like a fiend,’— for it seems that your fiends always laugh in syllables, The Old Curiosity Shop – Dickens 429 and always in three sylla...

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...ere has spoken. Is it or is it not as Captain Vere says?” In response came syllables not so much impeded in the utterance as might have been anticipat... ... wholly unobstructed in the utterance were these—”God bless Captain Vere!” Syllables so unanticipated coming from one with the ignominious hemp about ... ...nventional felon’s benediction directed aft towards the quarters of honor; syllables too delivered in the clear melody of a singing-bird on the point ...

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...ving already brought him so far in his learning as to spell words of three syllables. The idea of this early prodigy of erudition being carried off by... ... and, if you do not instantly descend that bank, without uttering a single syllable, by the Heaven that is above us, you shall make but one step from ...