The syllable to be acted was "Age", and the four girls withdrew to the dressing-room for a hasty conference.
Each company was given one syllable of a charade to act, with a strict time limit.
Shadow and color and light and movement dancing before the first syllable of the Name.
This summer on the 9th of August I heard the Fourth Syllable in its awfulness for the first time, and understood the mystery of the Redemption.
The Brahmin may attain to the shadow of the firstsyllable of the Word.
The sign of both the perfects in this tongue is the syllable nit, and niy means "to die.
The future of transitive verbs not only does not take any of these syllables, but even rejects ah when it is the terminal syllable of the stem.
He insisted, as is really the case, that in all instances the significant syllable or syllables are retained.
In the plural some of the persons insert a syllable between the verb and the tense sign.
In the Huasteca, the governed pronoun separates sometimes the last, sometimes the first syllable of the inflectional form from the stem.
But the young man had never uttered a syllable as to the cause of Madame Nazimoff's hatred for him.
The prince was delighted with his purchase, and he did not utter a syllable about it to anyone except Kovroff.
He entreated him not to utter one syllable of objection or remonstrance, and not to feel any apprehension of his ever being brought into a distressing situation, as regarded Cuthbert.
She regretted having uttered a syllableduring their interview which could operate to discourage Juxon from an immediate avowal of the impression which Jane's conduct had made upon his heart.
Whence he concludes that Etruscan and Irish are, therefore, the same language, and that both consist of words of one syllable each.
Now I'll dictate the very words you are to say; learn them off by heart and don't add a syllable or subtract one or--no fifty pounds.
You shan't utter a syllable or move an inch that I have not set down for you.
Whatever therefore he shall say, believe not one syllableor tittle of it, for all such language is but to overcome us, and to make us, while we wallow in our blood, the trophies of his merciless victory.
When these personal pronouns are connected with other words, or when they become subjects or objects of verbs, the firstsyllable only is used, or pronounced.
In one form the first syllableis always "Ke," and in the other "Ne.
The multiple form will be given in this grammar as the first person plural, and, whether indicated or not, the other may be understood as being the same with the change of the first syllablefrom Ne to Ke.
Not a syllable that you would have called rhetoric, not a word that you would have thought prepared; and then Brannan sat down.
Not a syllable was mentioned of her own fate--not an address or reference to her own place of abode given.
Remember, you have sworn never to disclose a syllable of what I have told you.
Paralysis why is paralysis a syllable why is it not more lively.
A wet syllableis we are, a wet syllable is we are we in.
Scarcely an actor, indeed, knew a syllable of his part.
I have the pleasure to return your drawing without a syllable of objection.
By often using one short syllable unaccompanied by another.
By beginning each line with a short syllableinstead of a long one.
The only person who's goin' to have a syllable to say about Lide's marryin' when the time comes, is Lide herself.
This was in response to somesyllable of admiration I'd let fall.
I could tell you all this, Martin, and not a syllable of it be true.
And then, in a voice that never trembled nor varied, she narrated briefly the scene which had just occurred, not extenuating in the slightest her own share in the transaction, or offering a single syllable of excuse.
And though he had in his brief enough to tempt him to bring the Martins up for judgment, not a word, not a syllable did he utter.
You remember that a prefix is a syllable which is placed before a simple word to form the derivative.
Words of more than one syllable ending in y preceded by a consonant, change y into i before all suffixes except those beginning with i.
In explain, ex is followed by a syllable beginning with a consonant, and it is therefore pronounced eks.
Notice in this that an entirely new idea has entered in, for the picture may not stand for the whole word but may stand for one syllable of the word as in the example given above.
There are a number of words in the English like honor, in which the lastsyllable used to be spelled our instead of or.
In execute, the ex is followed by an unaccented syllable beginning with a vowel, and therefore ex is pronounced eks.
Intonation, not a syllable of it was lost, "that knows not the Giant it has awakened by its puny bark.
