Syllables

Examples

• I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• But I'll swear it was a name of two syllables. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• And then the lockjaw closes down and nips off a couple of the last syllables--but they taste good. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Towards the last, I could understand some few syllables that she said to me, by placing my ear close to her lips. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Last two syllables, roars the head. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Mis--ter Roke--smith, Pa,' said Bella separating the syllables for emphasis. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She pronounced the syllables of the name with a peculiar clearness, as if she had tapped on two silver bells. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• That was the word the man uttered, and of which his son only caught the last two syllables. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• But he certainly was more staggered by these terrible occurrences than he was by names, of howsoever so many syllables. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He studies too much for words of four syllables. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• As the distance decreases the echo repeats fewer syllables till it becomes monosyllabic. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Olenska--O-len-ska, he repeated, drawing back the message in order to print out the foreign syllables above May's rambling script. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Such an echo would repeat as many words and syllables as could be heard in a second. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Yeobright's manner had been so quiet, he had uttered so few syllables since his reappearance, that Venn imagined him resigned. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The three syllables of this charade were to be depicted in pantomime, and the performance took place in the following wise: First syllable. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

Checker: Merle