The shortlisp and gurgle of the water in the sea-weed close by came nearer.
I In A major Poco sostenuto The laving tide of inarticulate air Breaks here in flowers as the sea in foam, But with no satin lisp of failing wave: The odor-laden winds are very still.
We boys were to club and pay for the rockets, and no one else was to know a lisp of the plan.
Sir John wrote an elegy of a thousand lines on his second wife, in which he affirmed that with his latest breath he would “lisp Maria’s name.
Mothers teach their babes to lisp them, and many a pious Christian has been heard faintly to whisper them in the hour of death.
Soon as the playful innocent can prove A tear of pity or a smile of love," teach it to lisp the name of Jesus and to walk in His commandments.
She had been listening to Harriet's lively lisp and mimicry of Constantia's many aspirants.
Little Kit Seymour, with her lisp and soft south country English, was a smart girl.
But in big boobies a lisp is only less loathsome than a burr.
He did, as a fact, lisp and drawl himself, but was not aware of it in himself.
Karmazinov," said Stepan Trofimovitch, sitting in a picturesque pose on the sofa and suddenly beginning to lisp as daintily as Karmazinov himself, "cher M.
And grateful for the blessing given With that dear infant on her knee, She trains the eye to look to heaven, The voice to lisp a prayer to Thee.
Here once a child, a smiling playful one, All the day long caressing and caressed, Died when its little tongue had just begun To lisp the names of those it loved the best.
Scarce has she learnt to lisp a name Of martyr, yet she thinks it shame Life should so long play with that breath Which spent can buy so brave a death.
For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
His tone of injury was excellently feigned, and his lisp was simplicity itself.
Van Busch twisted the ring about his little finger, and spoke with a more sluggish lisp and slurring of the consonants than even was usual with him.
A brave Jesuit converted me ere I was unstrapped from the cradle-board--ere I could lisp or toddle.
Your smile is more bright to her than sunshine, and your childishlisp more sweet than music.
With a little lisp he sang it, so that he might cheat himself and think that the voice he was making was Naomi's voice and not his own.
Still, Polly, there is a little flutter, a little tendency to stammer now and then, and even, to lispas you lisped when you were six years old.
Half an hour or an hour passed; Georgette murmured in her soft lisp that she was growing sleepy.
He did not miss one characteristic movement, one hesitation in language, or one lisp in utterance.
In that dimple lurked the most fascinating lisp that was ever modelled--a lisp not sufficiently full-bodied to disturb the accent, but strong minded enough to put stress upon it.
I could see his fixed on the lispdimple as it dipped.
Speaks with a lispdue to a dental defect; the lisp becomes more noticeable when he's drinking.
Somewhere near by was a dance, for we heard the rhythmic swish and lisp of young feet and the gay cry of the music.
There is a soft lisp in his speech which might fool strangers who do not know about the steel of his nerves and the keenness of his eye.
O for the lisp long silent, and the tone Of merriment once mingled with my own-- For the laughter of your lips, And the kisses plucked and thrown In the lavish wastings of your finger-tips!
Philosophy is graceful in youth, like the lisp of infancy, and should be cultivated as a part of education; but when a grown-up man lisps or studies philosophy, I should like to beat him.
Years will pass, and earthly prattlers cease perchance to lisp my name; But my angel babies' accents shall be evermore the same.
Fancy that essenced, fair-haired young idiot taking Huon--his lisp would be so effective!
The children growing up at their mothers' knees have learned to lisp it as a name to be revered; and when they grow up to man's estate, nothing will content them until they have read the life of the famous Fred.
So much talk about a "Fifteenth Amendment" we had never heard in our lives, and it made us laugh to hear even the little children lisp "The Fifteenth Amendment!
It was the husband chose the weapon here Why did not he inaugurate the game With some gentility of apophthegm Still pregnant on the philosophic page, Some captivating cadence still a-lisp O' the poet's lyre?
Live whelks, each lip's beard dripping fresh, As if they still the water's lispheard Through foam the rock-weeds thresh.
So have I-- And worse too, for they brought no such bud-mouth As yours to lisp "You wish you knew me!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lisp" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
