In two of his miscellaneous prints, our mellifluous poet is exhibited in very degrading situations.
The vulgar name of a great Italian poet was Trapasso; but when the learned Gravius resolved to devote the youth to the muses, he gave him a mellifluous name, which they have long known and cherished--Metastasio.
King, who has touched on this subject, suspects that many of the Greek dishes appear charming from their mellifluous terminations, resounding with a floios and toios.
I hope," said Millefleurs in his mellifluous tones, "that it is not this intrusion of ours that is sending Mr Torrance away.
Pardon me for disturbing you, dearest lady," said themellifluous voice of Millefleurs.
Thus urged, Pate seated himself, and in loud if not mellifluous tones sang as follows: The summer day's faded and starlight is streaming In beautiful showers from heaven above; And welcome sweet midnight!
From the foretop, in clear and mellifluous tones, was heard the following melody: Farewell!
Footnote 33: These two lines have been quoted as the most smooth and mellifluous in our language; and they are supposed to derive their sweetness and harmony from the mixture of so many iambics.
What Dryden did for Pope, Pope did for the next generation, and to compose mellifluous verses became the common attainment of ordinary scribblers.
The ideas of Theocritus, Virgil, and Spenser are, indeed, here exhibited in language equally mellifluous and pure; but the descriptions and sentiments are trite and common.
There are in the traditions and scattered fragments of history that yet survive in this once unhappy land," he said, in a peculiarly low and mellifluous voice, "much that deserves to be embalmed in story and in poetry.
He was from Virginia, and adopting the sweet, mellifluous language of his own home, I asked him whether he liked best to stay where he was, or go back to "Old Virginny?
Nothing is more agreeable to him than to moralise; not indeed in any dull or crabbed manner, but in a mellifluous and at the same time weighty fashion, of which very few other poets have the secret.
His mellifluous tones had somehow the effect of suggesting to Theron that he was an outsider and would better mind his own business.
Upon the silence there fell the pure, liquid, mellifluous melody of a soft-throated woman singing to her lover.
His eyes, seared by the raw light, used to the frantic motley of that drunken savage, could hardly adapt themselves to the half-tints, the dainty and mellifluous harmonies of French art.
And flocks of peacocks and Datyuhas and Chakoras and Varhins and Kokilas, seated on the tops of the tallest trees of that forest were pouring forth their mellifluous notes.
And the spot which the king reached swarmed with bees inebriate with floral honey, and echoed with the mellifluous notes of the blue-throated jay and was shaded by Saptacchadas and punnagas and Vakulas.
And the banks of those rivers resounded with the mellifluous strains of the male Kokilas and the notes of peacocks and cranes.
Was it not rather an angel than a mortal, whose mellifluous notes accompanied the instrument?
Twenty thousand niggers, ugly as devils, clad in the skins of the white polar bear, and sounding mellifluous cat-calls, all mounted upon pure white Arabian horses.
He went over in memory those strange confidences--which have, naturally, been much abridged here, for they needed a volume to convey their mellifluous abundance and the graces which accompanied them.
Yes," she said, breathing forth the syllable like the most mellifluous note that Tulou's flute had ever sighed.
Dick and I sat down at a little table and began to talk in English, while round us on every side the Spanish language—pure Castilian, and slipshod, mellifluous Andaluz—gushed forth like a golden fountain.
You're welcome"], he said fully, captured by her mellifluous sound and how the smile lit up her face right before the spoonful of rice was placed in between her two rows of teeth.
At last something good, the mellifluous and the true, began to trickle from his brain and pour in with the saliva of his mouth.
Back then there was a belief in deliverers who would reach for him while uttering charming, mellifluous words which all of the family members would accede to.
None the less, before he had uttered a dozen halting sentences he was carrying the audience with him step by step; moving the great concourse of listeners with his commonplace periods as a mellifluous Hawk could never hope to move it.
It was a fine view that spread before him--a soothing, mellifluouslandscape of golden river and hazy blue Indiana hills.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mellifluous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
