Pronouncing

Examples

• The preservation of languages by exact reproduction of the manner of pronouncing. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• What would uncle Egmont have said of Lawrence Lefferts's pronouncing on anybody's social position? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• At last he turned round again, and regarded them both; she started up, and pronouncing his name in a tone of affection, held out her hand to him. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Let us follow him a moment, as, pointing to each word, and pronouncing each half aloud, he reads, Let--not--your--heart--be--troubled. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Agatha asked a question; to which the stranger only replied by pronouncing, in a sweet accent, the name of Felix. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The words are not quite under my command in the manner of pronouncing them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Ill fo manger, you know, says Mr. Jobling, pronouncing that word as if he meant a necessary fixture in an English stable. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The father had wiped away his tears before he uttered these last wordsand in pronouncing them, he for one instant raised his eyes to mine. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Pronouncing those words, I bowed my head with the most distant respect, and went out of the room. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Let him start for the Continent, then, without our pronouncing on his future. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She was within the cabin and had slammed and bolted the door before he had finished pronouncing her name. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• There would be a satisfaction in being buried by Mr. Cadwallader, whose very name offered a fine opportunity for pronouncing wrongly if you liked. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I think he was swearing, but am not certain; however, he was pronouncing some formula which prevented him from replying to me directly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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