Bending his face a little, he softly kissed her hair again and again, till at last the kisses formed themselves into syllables and words, which she felt rather than heard.
Would she sing treble in the Christmas Carols, while Lucia beat time, and said in syllables dictated by the rhythm, "Trebles a little flat!
He raised his eyes as he muttered these desolated syllables and there was Olga just letting herself out of the front garden of the Old Place.
A word has as many syllables as it has separate vowels or diphthongs.
The accumulation of short syllables imparts to the verse a wild and passionate character.
In compounds such syllables are long in any verse: as #obruit#.
The first of two successive syllables which begin with the same sound is sometimes lost.
The early recessive accent seems to have been fairly emphatic; but the stress in classical Latin was probably weak and the difference between accented and unaccented syllables was much less marked than it is in English.
This is especially the case in syllables immediately preceded by the chief accent (posttonic syllables).
In other verse, however, such syllables are sometimes regarded as long.
A verse is said to be catalectic in syllabam, in disyllabum, or in trisyllabum, according to the number of syllables remaining in the last foot.
And indeed the paeon, as having more syllablesthan three, is considered by some people as a rhythm, and not a foot at all.
But many words and syllablesare more expressive of their meaning when, in uttering them, the voice is somewhat prolonged,--hence quantity is an element of expression.
Exemplify the sibilant impurity with such syllables as pish, false, traitress, miscreant.
It must be remembered that when for the sake of exercise or effect syllables are extended in time, they must be so uttered that their identity is not impaired,--that is, their enunciation must be free from mouthing.
Form similar syllables containing other tonic elements, and make similar exercises, taking care to produce a smooth, effusive utterance.
It comprehends quantity, or rate considered in reference to the duration of individual syllables; and movement, or rate considered in reference to the utterance of syllables and words in succession.
The discerning reader, in his work of vocal interpretation, will not fail to take advantage of the inherent character of syllables with respect to quantity.
Our language abounds in indefinite syllables to which he may impart whatever quantity he may desire.
The strong accents of the alliterating syllables supply the music with firmness, while the low-toned syllables give opportunity for the most varied nuances of declamation.
Some had two syllables too much to suit the tune, and some had two syllables too little.
Some writers say that the shrilling resembles the sound of the syllables gacharin-gacharin; but others compare it to the noise of water boiling.
Geimyo of five syllables are occasionally to be met with; geimyo of only two syllables are rare--at least among names of dancing girls.
So written, but probably pronounced as two syllables only.
Formerly a name of three or more syllables indicated that the bearer belonged to a superior class.
In some country-districts the common yobina of two syllables is made a trisyllable by the addition of a peculiar suffix; and before such trisyllabic names the "O" is never placed.
But, even among the upper classes to-day, female names of only two syllables are in fashion.
It will be observed that names of three or more syllables are rare among these, and also that the modern aristocratic yobina of two syllables, as pronounced and explained, differ little from ordinary yobina.
The name shinne-shinne is derived from the note of the creature, which resembles a quick continual repetition of the syllables shinne.
It is written in an irregular measure, varying from twelve to sixteen syllables in length; the greater number of lines having thirteen syllables.
And to work with your hands as we command you,'" he quoted vaguely, then shook himself free of her detaining grasp and marched grandly on, rolling out the mighty syllables of the psalms.
They did not mean anything to him, but merely repeated themselves over and over, just as so many delicioussyllables which tickled the ear and rolled succulently under the tongue.
The echoes are longing that word to repeat,-- It springs to the lips that are waiting to part, For its syllables spell themselves first in the heart.
If syllableswere pigments, you should see Such breathing portraitures as never man Found in the Pitti or the Vatican.
The lips that could so aptly form the melodious syllables of the most beautiful of languages were awkward beyond belief at mouthing out the thick words and strangely constructed phrases of the Semitic tongue.
The syllables hung ready on her lips--were said in a voice so faint and weak that one standing in the door-way could not have heard them.
Then, seeming to gain courage from the syllables of his name, she went on, half fearfully still: "I have hardly loved thee until now.
Accentuation of syllables, which seems, to answer the idea of long and short syllablesin the dead languages, is the foundation of English, metre.
South Africans seemed to the first Dutch settlers to sound like a repetition of the syllables hot and tot; Dut.
Its first two syllables are surely from the root Wai or Wae; iterative and frequentive Wawai, or Waway, meaning "Winding around many times.
This would apparently account for the first two syllablesof the name.
Mrs. White lifted her eyes very slowly towards her son, and spoke in the measured syllables and unvibrating tone which always marked her utterance when she was displeased.
He takes the liberty of using in any place a verse of any length, from two syllables to twelve.
He considered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestic, and has therefore deviated into that measure when he supposes the voice heard of the Supreme Being.
The syllables of his surname ringing clearly in his ears and followed by Stryker's fleeting laugh, brought him to a pause.
It is, in fact, in the pronouncing of final syllables everywhere that the most serious and persistent faults are found, bus for bus being one of the worst and most common cases.
Therefore until one feels at home with the quantities, let him observe the rule of beating time in reading, to make sure that the long syllablesget twice the time of the short ones.
And if this be true when the syllables are difficult of recognition, it will also be true, though in a less degree, when the recognition of them is easy.
A further cause may be that a word of several syllables admits of more emphatic articulation; and as emphatic articulation is a sign of emotion, the unusual impressiveness of the thing named is implied by it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "syllables" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
