Here are little prints slurring into one another in a dash; there, a dead stop, where the quick-eared stoat has paused with beady eyes alert for snowbird or rabbit.
Would they not hesitate before slurring men like Premier Norquay of Manitoba and the famous MacKenzies, those princes of fur trade from St. Louis to the Arctic, and David Thompson, the great explorer?
After his death she married a man by the name of William Pickett, a man whose heart was full of bitterness toward President Brigham Young and the Utah Mormons, and he seemed to delight in slurring them to annoy Joseph.
The wagon passed in, and when the man had unloaded and was gone, Joseph faced his uncle and said, "Uncle, you seem to enjoy making slurring remarks about Brigham Young and the Utah Mormons.
Guard againstslurring the words in the last column.
The great wavering shoutsslurring now above, now below the mark amazed Miriam out of all shyness.
The gate creaked and the wheels crunched up the drive, slurring and stopping under the dining-room window.
The piping notes, out of tune, wrongly emphasised, slurring one into the other, followed her across the dark basement hall and came faintly to her as she went slowly upstairs.
She went through them one by one, eagerly, slurring over difficulties, pressing on, getting their effect, listening and discovering.
He was talking in the rapid slurringway of a man who has trouble coming.
I was sorry to see that Whitehall was already slurring his words together, and had evidently been priming himself heavily.
And I, for my part, believe that one great cause of the unsatisfactory condition of the average Christianity of this day is the slurring over and minimising of these twin great and solemn truths.
There seems no reason for slurring over this meaning in favour of the more vague 'that' of our version.
He spoke with extraordinary rapidity, except in uttering certain words, when he would make a slurring pause, as a singer will let a note melt into a pianissimo, then race on again with renewed vigor.
They seem silly, in a way; the Ruskins bragging on themselves and slurring the Delphians and the Delphians slurring the Ruskins and bragging on themselves.
Music: 5--Interval practice by holding C4 for four beats and slurring to D4.
Slurring up to a note is a very disagreeable and common evil to be guarded against.
Now he was shrieking his blood-chilling laugh, now shouting disjointed sentences in a voice which had ceased to be human, now singing something which might have been a war-chant of the Huns for all its consonantal slurring and meager scope.
The voice of the 'Squire, speaking in slurring accents, broke upon the silence which had fallen.
It was that horrid Alice Jallow making slurring remarks about Amy.
And there was a time, even after they made those first slurring remarks about Amy, that they seemed real nice," spoke Grace.
The gentle slurring of a silk petticoat was heard on the dry grass, and Mrs. Capron joined them, smiling mischievously.
Softly, she sang it over and over to longslurring chords--curiously sweet and strange.
Her only conscious suppression was in slurring over the gap between Maisie's departure and her husband's; for both ladies took her meaning to be that her sister married to go abroad, and did not return.
The dragging in of ninety-nine of these, with the transparent object of slurring over the hundredth, which each knew the other was thinking of, merely added to its vividness.
B2; c1P] for the voice to be affectionate with a slurring intonation.
B] for the manner of speaking to be slow and slurring in intonation.
When in touch with my conditions she at once gave the names of several relatives and friends who have passed over, without any slurring or mistakes.
So under many difficulties it will be carried on, which may explain if it does not excuse any slurring of a style, which is at its best but plain English.
The memory of the slurring speech went from him; his thoughts were thistledown blown hither and yon by every vagrant air.
The general rules for elision and the slurring of light syllables are given above, in s.
He always spoke the name rapidly when addressing the child or when referring to it to any one else, slurring the cumbrous name that he might hide the secret of it; only to himself did he ever speak it slowly with the added words, "as a flower.
Inasmuch as the only white men of his acquaintance were Hudson Bay officials, this constituted a slurring piece of impudence that demanded instant retribution.
The presiding genius of the house, divided between professional resentment at even so remotely slurring an implication (for was not the Grove Street house good enough for any millionaire, undisguised!
On occasions, as they passed in the hall, Frank, Bart and Bill would laugh sneeringly or pass some slurring remark, but that was the extent of it.
Ned made no awkward breaks, so there was no excuse for Frank’s making any of his slurring remarks, and the remainder of the gymnasium practice went off without further incident.
That night," she continued, slurring the statement over, "I learned more about life than the classics ever taught me.
There will be noslurring over, no soft adjustments?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slurring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
