Was it, after all, only by chance that she had so tenderly pronounced his name, and had that familiar appellative only been drawn from her involuntarily because of her surprise at beholding his unexpected presence at her bedside?
That name, pronounced thus, the first word uttered after her long swoon, revealed her secret.
Fabien du Ronceret had no mind for the magistracy, the bar, or the civil service, and his pronounced turn for doing nothing drove his parent to despair.
Similar verdicts were pronounced with regard to poor Lucy almost every hour in the day, until she would plaintively and earnestly inquire, 'What could mamma mean by worldly wisdom?
A man, a clergyman, he told me, came, a ceremony of some sort was gone through, we werepronounced man and wife.
First, an old dunghill cock killed in the morning by a shock from his electrical jar, by dinner was become so tender that both the doctor and several of his literary friends pronounced it equal to a young pheasant.
He was brought to the church on the Sabbath, and the bishop, after reading his confession, immediately pronounced him excommunicated and accursed.
Wright and Stoddard led in prayer, before and after the sermon, while the Patriarch himself pronounced the benediction at the close.
When asked to conjugate a French verb, they hear it pronounced mentally but do not see it on the page.
At one time there is extraordinary improvement, but a later measurement registers pronounced loss.
This word has beenpronounced Chippewa by the Saxon race in America, and is thus recorded in our treaties and history.
Wabasha, pleased with this early indication of courage, took the little lad in his arms, caressed him, and pronounced that he would become a brave man, and prove an inveterate enemy of the Sioux.
Professor Joel Parker, of the Law School, pronounced Lincoln's action unconstitutional, subversive of the rights of property, and a most dangerous precedent.
Davis was already a pronounced secessionist, and had been defeated in his own State on that issue.
But if the solution of differences is referred to that keen and decisive judge called 'the Sword,' the issue of the strife must be pronounced by God, by whose aid Islam has for a thousand years triumphed over its foes.
The claim to protect the members of the Greek Church was pronounced to be inadmissible.
The Sheik ul Islam pronounced that there was nothing in the demands of the people which was opposed to the laws of Islam.
If I had been able to discover the slightest trace of illuminating-gas in the room I should have pronounced it asphyxia at once.
He pronounced Mr. Morowitch to be suffering from a congestion of the lungs that was very like a sudden attack of pneumonia.
The family physician has pronounced it due to natural causes, the uremic coma of latent kidney trouble.
Poor Pinocchio, whether he liked it or not, had to learn all these wonderful things; but it took him three long months and cost him many, many lashings before he was pronounced perfect.
For in all his life the Justice had never heard ch pronounced after s; furthermore he brought all his sounds up out of his gullet, or, if you will, out of his throat.
Self-consciousness had at that time not yet attained to the abstraction of subjectivity; it had not yet come to the realization that an "I will" must be pronounced by man himself concerning the decisions of the State.
The Commissioner of Patents had pronounced it the most ingenious, effective and generally meritorious invention that had ever been submitted to him, and my father had naturally looked forward to an old age of prosperity and honor.
His honor appointed a court commissioner, who made a careful examination of the work, and upon his report Elizabeth Mary Turmore was, at the end of a week, formally pronounced dead.
Mr. Huggins crowded his hat upon his shoulders, pronounced a brief benediction upon his bride, and betook himself to the barn-yard.
His campaigns were said to exist only on paper--to consist of slow methodical tactics, and incessant industry with the spade, and he was pronounced totally deficient in aggressive qualities.
Johnston was declared an imbecile--a mere martinet, without any of the qualities of true generalship; and Lee was pronounced incompetent for higher duties than the clerical performances of the War Office.
The antagonism between the two sections, becoming more and more pronounced each day, rapidly developed the true character of the struggle, as one for existence on the part of the South, against the revolutionary designs of the North.
His senatorial fame is a beautiful harmony of the most pronounced and attractive features of the best parliamentary models.
In fact, with much show of justice, his admirers claimed for him the original suggestion of the idea of an "irrepressible conflict," afterwards so elaborately pronounced by William H.
In the memory of every beholder must forever dwell the imposing presence of Mr. Davis, as, with uplifted hands, he pronounced the beautiful and appropriate petition to Providence, which forms the peroration.
The evacuation of Fort Sumter was clearly a military necessity, so pronounced by the highest military authority in the United States, and so regarded by the intelligent public of the North.
Napoleon afterwards pronounced that the tactics pursued by la Rochejaquelein showed that he possessed the highest military genius.
Then the cure pronounced his blessing upon them, and the service ended.
After seeing a good deal of the world and being many things, he finally embraced spiritualism, and in common with some of its most pronounced adherents he thenceforward abandoned what we should call 'the common-sense view.
If it is a mania the symptoms may even have become more pronounced and the man is possibly showering beef-steaks across by this time.
He was obviously an elderly German tourist of pronounced type--long-haired, spectacled, outrageously garbed and involved in the mental abstraction of his philosophical race.
Entering the arched front door, of such pronounced ecclesiastical design, mother's store-room was the first thing you came to, a room that opened out of the front hall on your right hand.
Straightway another doll, twice as big and fine, was extracted from the aunt's box and pronounced to be irrevocably my own--because I had not shown myself selfish under a temptation carefully calculated to test my character in that respect.
Lyle, the geologist, at Pretoria, examined the rock with bones in it, and pronounced it a kind of lava impregnated with lime from the bones.
The chief, probably, is the source of the River Wandle, at Carshalton, pronounced (with the same omission of the r which P.
In confirmation of the opinion that his name was pronounced Cook, I beg to send you an extract from the Life of Sir Edward Coke, by C.
We were speaking of her," said the hostess, with very pronounced mischief at the corner of her lips, and eyes excessively gracious.
They fell upon the marble bust; its disdainful smile seemed to him more pronouncedthan ever.
Sir William Russell laid about him with his curtel-axe to such purpose that the Spaniards pronounced him a devil and not a man.
Thorwaldsen pronounced the first nineteen the most perfect work of its kind in the world.
