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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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...t his heels, and walking into the apartment before he could ar ticulate a syllable. Mr. Pickwick had, that day, invited his three friends to dinner; ... ... your old acquaintances than I think you are. Hush! not a word, Sam; not a syllable. Here he is.’ As Mr. Pickwick spoke, Jingle walked up. He looked l... ...t the house of a very old friend of his, a Bailie Mac some thing and four syllables after it, who lived in the old town of Edinburgh. There were the ... ... and makin’ a reg’lar spectacle o’ myself, rayther than help me out vith a syllable. It ain’t filial con duct, Samivel,’ said Mr. Weller, wiping his ...

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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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...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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... 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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..., Dudu? With strict inquiry I could ne’er discover, And scorn to add a syllable untrue; But ere the middle watch was hardly over, Just whe... ...E NINTH. Oh, Wellington! (or ‘Villainton’ — for Fame Sounds the heroic syllables both ways; France could not even conquer your great name, ... ...h an evil tongue That—but my chaster ear will not receive An echo of a syllable that ‘s wrong: In fact, there ‘s nothing makes me so much gr...

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...tion of understanding he is to do it. The Romans, by reason that this poor syllable death sounded so harshly to their ears and seemed so ominous, foun... ...o this effect ordinarily frequented this prince’s house), discovered not a syllable of this intelligence to any one whatever; but going the next day t... ...there establish them like oracles, 207 Montaigne of which the letters and syllables are of the substance of the thing. To know by rote, is no knowled... ... came to be vassals to one only, for not having been able to pronounce one syllable, which is No. Which saying of his gave perhaps matter and occasion... ...hey know nothing of navigation, and so simple that they understand not one syllable of the religion they profess and wherein they are so devout: a thi...

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...ark that. Never was a word fitter for a quack’s mouth than “humanity.” Two syllables more, 38 Beauchamp’s Career and the parsons would be riding it t... ...s! the Liberals!’ They lived 233 George Meredith in their bodies. Not one syllable of personal consolation did he vouchsafe to Beauchamp. He did not ... ...versation, and the happiest homeliness. The politi- cians uttered barely a syllable of politics. The dinner basket was emptied heartily to make way fo... ...ater than twelve o’clock at night. His door opened at half-past one. Not a syllable was exchanged by the couple in the hall. They had fought it out. M... ...attention to the fact impressively, telling her that she should not hear a syllable from him to persuade her to marry: the emphasis of which struck th...

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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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...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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... it again, dear.” A most hopeless business. This time it swelled into four syllables. “It can’t be Tappitarver?” said Barbox Brothers, rubbing his hea... ...ce more, with extraordinary efforts at distinctness, it swelled into eight syllables at least. “Ah! I think,” said Barbox Brothers with a desperate ai...

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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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...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 ...

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...of Charles Nordier’s Oudet, threw an in- credible fulness of tone into the syllable or the consonant in which this burr was sounded. Though this fault... ...th which the Italian language allows to be given to vow- els and the final syllable, concentrated all the man’s despo- tism, impatience, and strength ...

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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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...ently whetting the knife of vengeance for his own throat. He never lisps a syllable in commendation of the fathers of this republic, nor denounces any... ...d write, and the other can spell, with tolerable correctness, words of two syllables. Dear fel- lows! they are all in comfortable beds, and are sound ...

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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...