Wherever the chief dependence in forming inferences is upon the conjunctions observed in past experience, failures to agree with the usual order are slurred over, cases of successful confirmation are exaggerated.
And then we always skipped orslurred over the 'morals'--they spoilt the story.
He slurred over the lower notes on the principle of an aeronaut throwing out a sandbag or two, in order that he might get up higher.
At one end of the veranda two shadowy forms were conversing; a woman's voice drifted to him, a soft voice that slurred and caressed the words it spoke.
A voice as soft as a gentle monsoon rain--a voice thatslurred over its words.
This would seem to be the original conclusion of the story; the horrible circumstance of the children being buried alive is much more likely to be slurred over or omitted at a later day than to be added.
Horn is warned to go back, in the ballads and in Horn Child, by the discoloration of his ring, but gets home as he can; this part of the story is slurred over in a way that indicates a purpose to avoid a supernatural expedient.
We can but hope and pray that some one may be found to give us an edition of the Gospels in which the difficulties will neither be slurred over with convenient neglect or noticed with affected indifference.
A great many,' she slurred over them; 'but we must have big ships, and the best that are to be had.
Yesterday evening he had slurred it, as if he had nothing to relate, except the finding of an old schoolfellow at Dr.
Ellhorn stooped over the hammock and continued his coaxing talk, drawling one sentence after another with slurred r's and soft southern accents.
The "taxis" slurred by through wet streets, and those persons who were abroad went with streaming umbrellas and hurried steps.
The air (there was never anything more to it) with a range of only a fifth, slurred the last syllable of every second line, giving the quaint effect of a bent note, and altogether the music was as homely as the verse.
The tune was sometimes "Pleyel's Hymn," but oftener it was sung to a melody now generally forgotten of much the same movement but slurredin peculiarly sweet and tender turns.
Custom can maintain a practice whilst dispensing with its meaning; slowly the practice (spell or ritual) is slurred and corrupted.
She talked a great deal in a highly pompous tone, and her voice always slurred over from one statement to another as if to ward off interruption.
Her voice slurredover from the question to her next outburst.
Life was a thing to be endured with fortitude, its sorrows borne with Christian resignation; its joys, if there were any joys, discreetly slurred over.
Hitherto Meg's experience had been that it was a thing to be slurred over, like a deformity.
Having slurred his early dinner with his usual zest, he was hastening down the passage for his hat and stick, when Thyatira Muggridge came upon him from the pantry, with a jug of toast-and-water in her hand.
For it is a lonesome and gruesome place, where the weather makes no difference; where Nature has not put her hand, on this part or on that, to leave a mark or show a preference, but slurred the whole with one black frown of desolate monotony.
The mill-wheel of thought swung round slowly, that no section of it might be slurred over, and the red-haired girl tossed and turned behind her.
It is quite a mistake to suppose that slurred or melting lines are characteristic of distant large objects; they may be so, as before observed, (Sec.
The feeding call of the adults is a soft slurred chee, while that of the nestlings has a mewing quality.
He tried, as I thought, to make some fitting reply, but it slurred off into a mumble and silence.
His lip had a trick of quivering, his words slurred themselves together, and so did his handwriting when he had occasion to draw up a small agreement.
His drawing," says Ruskin, "is free and not ungraceful, but most imperfect and slurred to give a melting quality of colour.
The -ie in Aurelie is slurred over; know-e is dissyllabic.
Tragedie; the final ie might be slurred over before is, in which case we might read for to for to (see footnote); but it is needless.
In the word statue the second syllable is rapidly slurred over, like that in glorie in l.
Makestow, being differently placed in the line, is to be read with the e slurred over, as a dissyllable.
The writing of this word is carefully slurred until it is almost as illegible as the original.
It is possible that a slurred definite article ('th'heavens') has been lost.
Otherwise 'Who hath' is to beslurred in reading the line.
While he made her stop and listen, his earnestness had overleaped that slurred manner of speech that belongs to the ignorant of culture.
Monotone is of great importance in reading the Bible, the beautiful words of the Church Service, and in prayer, and the haste with which these solemn words are often slurred over, is much to be deplored.
The unaccentuated syllables of words are very liable to be either omitted, slurredor corrupted, and there is no word in the language more frequently and unjustly treated in this respect than the conjunction--and.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slurred" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
