Finally she had to be wise for Mr. Gilman, whose happiness depended on a tone of her voice, on a single monosyllable breathed through those rich lips.
There are moments when an ambiguous monosyllable is more potent than the wisest of words--and this was one of them.
Spawer began, feeling the discomfort of that monosyllable like a drop of cold water down his neck, and stopped there suggestively.
Mrs. Le Marchant strikes her hands together, and gives utterance to that short and shapeless monosyllable which has a prescriptive right to express vexation.
The whisper in which this monosyllable is breathed is so stamped with a fear that borders on terror, that his one astonished thought is bow best to reassure her.
He would probably mutter a monosyllable which is not 'mice.
Indeed, crime is simply a convenient monosyllable which we apply to what happens when the brain and the heart come into conflict and the brain is defeated.
His monosyllable was charged with terrified reproach.
When the mouth begins to be empty it is replenished by the lungs in an instant, while the tongue is withdrawn from the roof of the mouth, and replaced again in the same manner as in pronouncing the monosyllable tut.
The little monosyllable No was again put in requisition, with this qualification--"that they did not like the Botany Bay skippers.
Or the last of the word, if the next be a monosyllable governed by it; as, "So fresh the Wound is—and the Grief so vast.
In the second line the monosyllable is inadmissible in the last place.
The last place in the line should be occupied by a dissyllabic word—at least it should not be a monosyllable or trisyllable.
Europe--therefore to the world--should be demolishable by one monosyllable from a bookseller's mouth!
It is pleasant to observe with what absurd anxiety this little monosyllable is avoided.
There was a Mr. Matthew Towgood, who in 1746 prepared a treatise 'Upon the Prophane and Absurd use of the Monosyllable Damn.
In endeavouring to chronicle the amenities of the British "damn," we believe we are dealing with a monosyllable possessing a remarkable fund of application.
To which the General, strange to say, only replied by the monosyllable "Bo!
The talkative fit was evidently over, and he might sit and talk, if he would, from then till evening, and get no more than a monosyllable here and there in return for his pains.
The monosyllable "No" came quavering from her yellow throat.
As though by that monosyllablefreed from an enchaining spell, Joan started, moved quickly to his side and held the goblet to his lips.
The monosyllablebrought him up startled and staring.
Cadurcis would turn pale, and bite his lip, and then leave the room; and whole days would sometimes pass with barely a monosyllable being exchanged between this parent and child.
There was then much meaning in that little monosyllablewith which Venetia concluded her reply to her mother.
The quiet monosyllablebrought the rancher down to earth.
The monosyllable was jerked out through clenched teeth, and had something of defiance in it.
The monosyllablewas uttered in the form of a question, and did not lessen the difficulties in the young man's way.
He divined the cause of her tears, and there was much tenderness in his utterance of the monosyllable and in the kisses he gave her.
This monosyllable frightened Modesto more than a discharge of artillery; the negotiator knew not what to do.
Rita, who does not at all know how to pronounce the monosyllable yes, replied to him by a dry, hard no.
Brahma as represented by sound, is, of course, Pranavah or Om, the mystic monosyllable standing for the trinity.
At this, the entire universe of mobile and immobile creatures, uttering the monosyllable Bho, echoed the answer of Suka.
Meanwhile, the righteous-souled Suka, who had entered the elements, had become their soul and acquired omnipresence, answered his sire by uttering the monosyllable Bho in the form of an echo.
This kind of shortening is not frequent except in the early dramatists, who often shorten under the verse-ictus a monosyllable ending in a long vowel and followed by an initial vowel (as in the third example above).
No monosyllable except #est# is admitted at the end of the line.
A ROOT is a monosyllable which gives the fundamental meaning to a word or group of words.
A monosyllable rarely stands before the principal caesura or at the end of the verse.
Ashley snapped out the monosyllable in a dry, metallic voice pitched higher than his usual key.
In the monosyllable there was a demand for complete explanation, but he met it with one of his frank smiles.
The amount of information contained in the embarrassment with which this monosyllablewas uttered caused Olivia to feel faint.
The last monosyllable was the only part of his speech audible, and being interpreted by Forester as a reply to his request, he at once helped the old gentleman to a very highly seasoned French dish before him.
Thus when, speaking Esperanto, you wish to ask a question, you begin by shouting out ĉu, an admirably distinctive monosyllable which cannot be confused with any other word in the language.
Originally a derisive diminutive, the usage of the studios has endowed this monosyllable with a significance all its own, not readily definable.
At that monosyllable of dismayed protest, Lucinda saw Zinn's little eyes of a pig grow wide with surprise; which emotion, however, might have been due quite as much to what Bellamy was saying.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monosyllable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
