Phyllis said the name, with a gentler light in her eyes, a softer inflection of her voice, and Pollard felt a sudden chill at his heart.
Pollard, and again the only trace of unpleasantness was a slight inflection in his really fine voice.
The inflection of light offers a third method by which rays of light may be decomposed and colour produced.
Young to prove that light could and would turn a corner, in his highly philosophical experiments illustrating the inflection or bending in of the rays of light.
There was a terrible upward inflection in his voice now, a half-jocular tone that was more terrible than the muffled snarl in which he had previously been speaking.
Perhaps it was the derisive inflection on "book agent" that woke Albert.
Her words fell from her lips like crackling embers, and her inflection ran up like the small end of a switch.
Often she tries to imitate the sliding inflection and long-drawn-out voice to the amusement of our guests, but her articulation is quite beyond my ear.
We imitated their various manners, even to the inflection of their voices.
Errors in time, force of utterance, emphasis, and inflection should be carefully corrected, and then the passage read over again.
Mark the inflectionof the last six lines of poetry on page 256.
Barrant winced under the delicate inflection of irony which conveyed in that brief reply the inference of another blunder in his own changing suspicions.
Both admit of a prefixed adjective to indicate great, and of a diminutive inflection to denote inferiority in size, power, or excellence.
The name of the racoon in the Chippewa language, appears to be a derivation from Ais a shell, with the inflection for the perfect past tense (bun) united with the copulative vowel i.
I'm not so sure about that," said Lesley, with an inflection in her voice that Val couldn't quite understand.
These words, or words very similar, were spoken in a husky voice, not remarkable in any way, and with the English cadence in articulation, a rising inflection at the end of every few words.
No inflection of the adjective in the accusative singular.
In the Ormulum the inflectionis -e, which is occasionally dropped.
On the whole, then, the song of the Philadelphia vireo comes nearest to the red-eye's, differing from it mainly in tone and inflection rather than in form.
Some of them are exactly like the red-eye's, while others have the peculiar sweet upward inflection of the solitary's.
Leblanc did not catch, he continued with an emphatic and caressing inflection of voice:-- "Ah!
There lay in the inflection of voice which accompanied these words something indescribably fierce and frenzied.
A frequent rising inflection at the end of words, represented by some authors by means of a final h, is here indicated by the accent '.
The distinct emphasis put upon nearly every syllable gives to sentences the effect of a chant or recitation, while the frequent rising inflection lends a querulous tone to an ordinary conversation.
M3 are small, and the re-entrant inflectionis hardly evident.
The connection of the two lophs is not directly at the end of the protomere; consequently a shallow lingual inflection remains.
This is evident on the worn occlusal surface of the teeth; the lateral re-entrant folds are shallow vertically and progressively recede laterally until only a slight inflection remains.
Only a slightinflection of the re-entrant fold is evident on the side of union, and the inflection disappears in the first phases of wear as the columns unite.
The labial fissure is shallow, and, with further wear, the inflection is worn away and the parameres also unite, thereby forming a monoprimatic crown in the final stage.
The inflection appears to have persisted in the upper teeth (Fig.
A relatively shallow re-entrant inflection between the ends of the parameres sometimes is retained, although it also will disappear with slight additional wear.
In the final stages of attrition, the inflection disappears and the tooth is a simple elliptical column.
Thus the two parts of M1, and also of M2, are united into a single column except for a slight inflection on the labial side and this is true also of m1 and m2 except for a slight inflection on the lingual side (Fig.
Then he added with a faint inflection of derision: "I fear it will be of no service to you, because few business men care to buy trouble even at a bargain.
The present and past participles, when inflected and not as weak adjectives, may be classed with the polysyllabic adjectives, their inflection being the same.
Sign language cannot show by inflection the reciprocal dependence of words and sentences.
While it has been mentioned that there is no inflection of signs to express tense, yet the conception of present, past, and future is gestured without difficulty.
But a new inflectionin Barbara's voice roused him.
Barbara laughed, and there was a new inflection in her voice.
And, moreover, he had cared for her pride--had not used the least word or even inflection to indicate that she was absolutely dependent on his good nature.
She was richly rewarded by a single benevolent inflectionof that stirring voice.
The citations from the Inflection hav been givn in ful, those from the Fonology in every case where a word is not givn merely as an arbitrary chozen exampl.
The strong inflectionof adjectivs is in part the same as the vocalic (or strong) inflection of the substantivs with which it was originally identical.
There occurs also an extended form with the same meaning, its inflection being that of a consonantal substantiv (§ 117, n.
The present participl has lost its strong inflection and declines like a weak adj.
The beginner may be advized at first simply to read over the chapters on Fonology, but to giv more attention to those on Inflection (for the beginning without the notes) and then to commence reading a text.
The inflectionof every word is indicated by figures in parentheses.
The inflection of these pronominal adjectivs is identical with that of the strong adj.
The Gothic ablaut-series as appearing in verbal inflection ar these (cp.
The latter varies according to the formativ suffix and causes in the present forms a considerabl difference of inflection in the four classes.
The inflection of these verbs is in the present identical with that of the strong verbs.
When he opened them again his face had softened; the words fell upon the silence with a heartrending inflection of misery.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inflection" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
