Then had come the stir of moving bodies and the buzz of whispers--the shuffling of feet as the Judge retired and the jurors filed out--and at length the painful hiatus with the red sunlight and the pallid lamps.
There are not a few hiatus both in the Greek and Latin texts(167).
Probably his tendency was to seek after too much uniformity in such matters as the avoidance of hiatus and of successive short syllables, or as the symmetrical correspondences between clauses within the period.
In English, the question of hiatus raises sundry points of an interesting kind.
Ronsard, however, anticipated the reforms of Malherbe and the practice of French classic verse, in forbidding both hiatus and enjambement, though in a later work of his this opinion is reversed.
Enjambement (the carrying over into another line of words required to complete the sense) and hiatus (the clash of vowels in a line) were both employed in Latin and Greek verse, and were therefore permitted in French poetry by the new school.
We hope at a later period to supply the hiatus in history between this last mentioned year and 1837, in which year the written records of the B.
This was a mistake; young men, daily wasting a large amount of tissue under hard work, had a natural craving for substantial food to supply the hiatus in the system.
You yourself admit that there is a hiatus in your story; well, that hiatus is to me a gulf which you have failed to bridge.
Hard it is to fill up the hiatus decorously; but, in fact, the word very coarsely expressed that she was no better than she should be.
And however much she might brush and pull her hair over it, there always appeared a hiatus sooner or later, through which a large patch of what Barbara jeeringly called "false horsehair," might plainly be seen.
The name, omission of which causes the hiatus in the text, is Chouteau.
II-7] Hiatus in the text, probably from missing or illegible MS.
Here we can read the young Aristotle, writing in the form of the dialogue like Plato, avoiding hiatus like Isocrates, and justifying the praises accorded to his style by Cicero, Quintilian and Dionysius.
In logic a hiatus occurs when a step or link in reasoning is wanting; and in grammar it is the pause made for the sake of euphony in pronouncing two successive vowels, which are not separated by a consonant.
In anatomy the term is used for an opening or foramen, as the hiatus Fallopii, a foramen of the temporal bone.
His diffikty supposes a hiatus where none is intended, and his making purple of one syllable wrecks the whole verse, the real slur in the latter case being on azure or.
Here the second hiatus occurs; and when the ballad resumes, we can only guess that st.
Since then the bridge has been rebuilt on its former site, a procedure which makes the hiatus and the false position of the arch the more apparent.
This form, creating a hiatus in vocal utterance, is generally designated by the term "stammering.
The consequence is a hiatus in the natural flow of speech, which prevents the thought from materializing in the shape of the word intended to be spoken.
This hiatus the victim of such precipitate mode of thinking generally attempts to bridge over by spasmodic efforts, which but serve to aggravate the situation, increasing, as they do, the disorder in the sound-producing lines.
But possibly his mind filled in a hiatus here, and there was no mistaking that what she said about her father impressed him profoundly.
Both remained standing exactly where Hen had left them, and there ensued a hiatus of entertainment just long enough to be quite distinctly appreciable.
Interested by the hiatus in Cally's list of missing swains, Hen desired that this conversation should go on.
In all other cases the choice lies between a three syllable foot with hiatus and a two syllable foot with elision; the latter is probably to be preferred.
Soon after Tertius Ingpen's arrival, George had been despatched to summon urgently Mrs. Tams, the charwoman who had already more than once helped to fill a hiatus between two cooks.
Spina bifida is a congenital malformation or hiatus in union along the median line of the sacrum or loins.
Union along the median line is an occlusion taking place by the junction of sides; and every hiatusor opening, whether normal or abnormal, which happens at this line, signifies an omission in the process of central union.
After a two horse-power pull, a regular thirteenth labor of Hercules, a hiatus of two inches manifests itself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hiatus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
