To drink his health, both Crumpy and myself had courage for another glass; and when I began to tell sea-stories, with all the emphasis and expression flowing out of my uniform, he was so overpowered that he insisted on a hornpipe.
And she finished it off with such emphasis upon button No.
The emphasis swings now to one aspect, now to another, but through all the one thought is a king, a world-wide kingdom bringing blessing to all creation.
While there is repetition of the kingdom being world-wide and unending, with all nations in subjection, the chief emphasis is put upon the blessing to that great majority--the poor.
Que-qúe-o he vociferates, with a strong emphasis and drawl upon the middle syllable.
The kind-hearted lepidopterist lingered with gracious emphasis upon the adjective, and assured me that the specimen would be all the more valuable because of a finger-mark which my awkwardness had left upon one of its wings.
You will note that this statement does not carry the sameemphasis upon the word never as the inverted statement.
Many times, in order to place the emphasis upon certain words, we reverse this order and place the emphasized words first, as: Without your help, we cannot win.
But in order to place emphasis upon the word never, which is the emphatic word in the sentence, never is placed first, and the verb phrase inverted so that the subject I comes in between the two words which form the verb phrase.
Sometimes in writing for effect or to giveemphasis we omit the verb in the sentence; at other times we omit the verb when the same verb occurs in a series of brief sentences, and its continued use would mean a tiresome repetition.
But we want to place the emphasis upon your help, so we change the order of the words and place the phrase, without your help, first.
It was suddenly brought home to the enthusiast with sharp emphasis that to all civilized mankind, save and excepting those few chosen ones who shared his peculiar convictions, he was a common thief, a bandit, an outlaw.
None of his subtle nuances were lost; there was never an emphasis misplaced.
Emphasis in gesture is just as inartistic--and therefore ineffective--as emphasis in tone or language.
There must be no more emphasis in the second manner than the first.
The danger of telling stories connected with sudden conversions is that they are apt to place too much emphasis on the process, rather than on the goal to be reached.
Emphasis is the bane of all story-telling, for it destroys the delicacy, and the whole performance suggests a struggle in conveying the message.
But the time is come when emphasis must be laid upon the duty of gaining some general acquaintance with the subject and its applications in the case of an Imperial people.
The importance of mental hygiene calls for no more emphasis on my part; though, did space permit, further illustrations might be given of its scope.
The Mural Decorations The intellectual emphasisof the color scheme, and the significance of the mural decorations.
There is, however, a decorative emphasis of the doorways along the entire front.
What degree of success is to be looked for, and what emphasis should be laid upon such attempts, are questions which will probably divide men for a long time to come.
And men differ widely on the score of the degree of emphasis to be laid upon their observance.
It is at times forced upon our attention with unmistakableemphasis that the forms of social and political organization are under voluntary control.
Nevertheless, the variations in the emphasis laid on this virtue or on that, or in the conception of what constitutes this virtue or that, may yield ideals of character and of conduct which bear but a slight family resemblance.
Some persons may think that way," she compressed her lips, taking care to give the proper emphasis to persons.
I know she didn't come home with us," said Sallie, stamping her foot to give emphasis to the words.
The sight of the lantern in the hand of Mr. Layton gave such emphasis to the danger that it caused another quick throb of Nick's heart, but he forced it down as the two started back over the road, toward the school-house.
That makes it the more remarkable that the prophet, with this wide outlook, should insist with such emphasis on the fact that it has a local centre.
None should be able to utter the words of my text, 'The mountains shall depart and the hills be removed,' with such emphasis of certitude as the present students of physical science.
We must feel the emphasis laid on 'I will bring near My righteousness,' and the impression of merciful speed given by 'My salvation shall not tarry.
The attribute of infinitude or sovereign completeness is dwelt on with such emphasis as to obscure all the rest.
We need not put too much emphasis and stress upon that side of the truth; but we need not either suppress it or disregard it in our modern high-flown disinterestedness.
The repetition of the theme of man's frailty is not unnatural, and gives emphasis to the contrast of the unchangeable stability of God's word.
Almost exclusively with the earlier Fathers, as we have seen, and very largely with their successors, the emphasis was laid on life, rather than on thought, and the appeal was to authority rather than to reason.
In the representations of early Christian thought, however, we find great differences in the emphasislaid upon the speculative side of the theistic problem.
From the time of Aristotle men had been content to have, to a large extent, the abstract problems of Ontology, Epistemology, and the others, and to layemphasis on questions of life and manners.
Georgia is here selected for illustration, because of the emphasis upon the sovereignty of the State in the forms used.
To give greater emphasis to our proposition, we agreed to wait the next morning on Mr. Nicholas, whose grave and religious character was more in unison with the tone of our resolution, and to solicit him to move it .
And the monosyllable was breathed over and over again with a ferocity of emphasisthat showed how deep and vindictive was the passion in the speaker's mind.
Another condition which makes our country a favourite playground for fantastic vagaries is the strong emphasison the material sides of life, on business and business success.
The eager expectancy of hearing the right letter or number from the lips of the child gives such a strong emphasis to the right results that the wrong ones slip from the mind of the hearer.
Soon she lives in an atmosphere of high sexual tension in which the sound and healthy interests of a young life have to suffer by the hysterical emphasis on sexuality.
Some believe that this great emphasis on sexual interests may intensify æsthetic longings in the American commonwealth.
Even the best and most famous of these fabrications throw wrong sidelights on the social problems, and by a false emphasis inhibit the feeling for the proportions of life.
Lady Brian spoke with plaintive emphasis the while she drew an elaborate initial in the sand at her feet with the point of her parasol.
The slight emphasis on the last word did not escape Maud, and she saw at once that Mrs. Lovelace could not be considered equally indifferent on the subject.
Dinah had been speaking at least an hour, and the reddening light of the parting day seemed to give a solemn emphasis to her closing words.
The fierce, incredulous emphasis on the last word, for a moment, withered all reply on Mrs. Colwood's lips.
Marsham, with an emphasis which Sir James knew to be honest.
The words "Single, Echoless" were uttered with a strange sort of triumphant emphasis which struck both the girls, and then the feeble voice went on more brokenly even than before with a few lines more, and then suddenly ceased.
She did not attempt to follow it at all till the line Minnie had caught so distinctly was reached, and then she repeated it after her in the same tone as before, and with the same triumphant emphasis on the words, "Single, Echoless.
