... father and Miss La Smyrger were in the room—she bore it well, speaking no syllable of anger, and enduring, for the moment, the implied scorn of the o...

... of the alphabet, suggested some mysterious fatality. Marcas! say this two-syllabled name again and again; do you not feel as if it had some sinister ... ...the Z like a rocket rising, z-z-z-z-zed; and after pronounc- ing the first syllable of the name with great importance, de- picted a fall by the dull b...

...ire, or let to hire, horses and car riages upon the Lord’s day, but not one syllable about those who have no necessity to hire, because they have car...

... “My name is Christabel Angela.” Elizabeth opened her eyes, and said it by syllables. “Christabel Angela! that’s a prettier name than Ida. Does it mak... ..., but the breaks in them at the end of the lines perfectly re- gardless of syllables:- My dear Papa, Please let me have a poli ceman. Bet h as got at ...

...she could not relieve the irksomeness of imprisonment by the exchange of a syllable with any of her fellow captives; and when at last arrived in the t... ..., you know! And, as I ever wish to be believed, I solemnly protest that no syllable of such a nature ever passed between us. The last half hour be- fo... ... amidst all her perplexity of words in reply, the meaning, which one short syllable would have given, imme- diately expressed his intention of paying ...

...ntained. Then their thirst was for drama— to see, to drink every wonderful syllable those lovers had written. Miss Vincent’s hand was upon one of Mate... ...” “You have not heard anything of Lady Eglett?” “Lady Charlotte Eglett? No syllable. Or wait—my lord’s 68 Lord Ormont and His Aminta secretary was wi... ... Their thoughts were on the chariot to follow. Aminta had barely uttered a syllable since the start of the flight from Ashead. She had rocked in a swi...

...great things, O youth?’ 13 George Meredith Still he groaned, answering no syllable. And she contin- ued, ‘’Tis surely in sweet friendliness I ask. Ar... ... the King praised her, magnifying her. Now, with Ruark she interchanged no syllable, and said not farewell to him when she departed with Mashalleed, t... ..., and passed the bird through it, urging it all the while with one strange syllable; and the bird went up with a strong whirr of the wing till he was ...

...e bolts were undisturbed. He tried to say ‘Humbug!’ but stopped at the first syllable. And being, from the emotion he had under gone, or the fatigues...

...2691 Aemi. But then I saw no harme: and then I heard, 2692 Each syllable that breath made vp betweene them. 2693 Othe. What? Did th...

...e cashier counted out the money; and Lucien, all eyes and ears, lost not a syllable of the conversation. “That is not all, my friend,” Etienne continu... ...hat she was Mademoiselle Florine; but, upon my word, I could not believe a syllable of it, such spirit was there in her ges- tures, such frenzy in her... ...ates, and read over his work to an attentive audience. Felicien said not a syllable. He took up the manuscript, and made off with it pell-mell down th... ... been put in the wrong. Not one word of the causes of the rupture! not one syllable of the terrible farewell letter! A woman of the world has a wonder...

...No; unless,” said I, “she has the gift of hearing those ‘airy tongues that syllable men’s names,’ which Milton tells about.” From whatever cause, Pris... ...hereafter—that cost me a thousandth part so hard an effort as did that one syllable. The heart pang was not merely figurative, but an absolute torture...

... and learn. These things were the Alphabet, whereby in aftertime he was to syllable and partly read the grand Volume of the World: what matters it whe... ...not known, at the Gans or elsewhere, to have spoken, for a whole week, any syllable except once these three: Es geht an (It is beginning). Shortly aft...

...ld not find his tongue, for the instant, for fright and surprise. “Where is the boy?” In disjointed and trembling syllables the man gave the informati...

...r husband kneeling in his nightshirt by the bed. He mut- tered a few swift syllables, and looked up as she entered. ‘She is asleep,’ whispered the wif...

...ing as briefly as possible, and he shunned all commu- nication that went a syllable beyond the matter in hand. When winter had passed away, and his ga...

...has in my ear a sound, in my heart an echo, such as no other assemblage of syllables, however sweet or classic, can produce. Belgium! I repeat the wor...

...re ceremony? But as I only stayed eight days in this place, and knew not a syllable of the language, perhaps it is as well to pretermit any disquisiti...

...read of the parents who live near you.” ‘They had not a word to say, not a syllable beyond the objection which I had already met, that other children ... ...s evidently a very agreeable one on both sides, though we did not know one syllable of the lan- guage, and then.... But I almost tremble to think of t... ...hen I go ashore, is an old Crimean shirt, a very ancient wide-awake. Not a syllable has in all probability ever been written, except in our small note...

...ne out of the room, and made Emily and Lily promise not to utter an- other syllable that night. 213 Yo n g e CHAPTER XXVI: CHAPTER XXVI: CHAPTER XXVI...

...angelic, unknowable, exalted. The solem- nity of those prolonged, canorous syllables: “I require and charge you both, as ye shall answer at the dreadf...