Pronounced

Examples

• That may pass in a pensionnat, he pronounced. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Ere the distribution of good things commenced, a brief grace was pronounced by Mr. Hall and sung by the children. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Although they spoke to each other in guarded tones, their words were pronounced with sufficient distinctness of utterance to reach my ears. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The curse pronounced against the rebuilding of it, has never been removed. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They were made to pronounce the word Shibboleth and were easily detected as enemies when they pronounced it Sibboleth. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I am not sure that in defence of your own life your action will not be pronounced legitimate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Possibly they pronounced their consonants very hard and had rather indeterminate vowels, as is said to be still the case with tribes of South Arabia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The name re-pronounced by his lips overcame me unaccountably. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Miss de Bassompierre, I pronounced. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• A more pronounced illustration is to wet the hands in a basin of water, and then plunge them in the blast of hot, dry air coming from a furnace register. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The Linotype (a line of type) was pronounced by the _London Engineering_ as the most remarkable machine of this century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Every one pronounced it most excellent. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• As he pronounced these words aloud, a voice very near him called out in a low and cautious tone, Wamba! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• But the person who advanced was now near enough to see her, and stepping forward with eagerness, pronounced her name. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Martin paused _interdit_ one minute, one instant; the next he knew his ground, and pronounced all well. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• His lamp was pronounced a fake, a myth, possibly a momentary success magnified to the dignity of a permanent device by an overenthusiastic inventor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A minister pronounced the benediction, and the patriotic little gathering disbanded. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The medical man who looked in pronounced him shaky, agitated, and talked of a little blood and the seaside; but he took neither of these remedies. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• At length the chaise arrived, the trunks were fastened on, the parcels placed within, and it was pronounced to be ready. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• When Evadne pronounced my death, I thought that the title of Victor of Constantinople would be written on my tomb, and I subdued all mortal fear. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• While looking at it, you pronounced his name. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He pronounced it to be very ingenious, and that it would, no doubt, answer the purpose; but he said, _An improved safety-valve is not wanted_, those in use being quite sufficient for the purpose. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It will not be fair till the moon rises, pronounced Mademoiselle Moore, consequently I feel assured that my brother will not return till then. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• If any listener had heard me, he would have thought me mad: I pronounced them with such frantic energy. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I have watched her when she was most natural, most lively, and most lovely; my judgment has pronounced her beautiful. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• My reflections closed in an audibly pronounced word, Graham! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Mr. MacTurk, the surgeon to whom Moore's case had been committed, pronounced his wound of a dangerous, but, he trusted, not of a hopeless character. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It isn't pronounced either Bear or Beer, as people will say it, but something between the two, as only Germans can give it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Socially speaking, Joshua Rigg would have been generally pronounced a superfluity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She pronounced the we with a faint emphasis that gave it an ironic sound. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.

Editor: Sweeney