Noun : "Man," "eye," "strength," and "sixths" are English words of one syllable. ,Do not breathe a syllable of all this. From Dictionary.com.
These words were syllabled trembling by the iron man. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
I could not wait to pronounce the three-syllabled discovery. From Wordnik.com. [Words in a French Life] Reference
Every line bristled with many - syllabled words he did not understand. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Peggy told him with the full three-syllabled dignity of the "Margaret.". From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
Of all words ever syllabled by human lips, the most blessed is -- Charity. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 330, September 6, 1828] Reference
It is a long ten-syllabled line, and rimes in couplets, as, for instance. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
'Middle-aged!' said Paul, with a fiery two-syllabled laugh of scorn at the idea. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
A gentleman met me at the door, and my parched lips syllabled the name of Alice. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
Not for me the slippery suavity of French or the multi-syllabled pretentiousness of Latin. From Wordnik.com. [The Curse of the Pharaohs]
Later he would only remember that it was a two-syllabled name, which probably began with an M. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret has Scruples]
One voice made of many voices, resounded through the chamber; it syllabled the name of Raymond. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
The great number of one-syllabled words in the language also makes for ease in understanding it. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
And now several long four-syllabled words come together, and the boy with the dictionary strikes work. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5] Reference
Again her name was syllabled, and she shuddered as she asked herself, am I becoming mad, or am I dying, that. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
You will admit that our substitutes for these five-syllabled appellations are easier to pronounce in a hurry. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference
"Dear, dear, think of it, think of it," and the low, two-syllabled answer of the female is heard in every orchard. From Wordnik.com. [Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State] Reference
Namah Shivaya is called Panchakshari (5 syllable mantra) whilst Aum Namah Shivaya is called Sadakshari (6 syllabled mantra). From Wordnik.com. [Om Namah Shiva !!! « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1] Reference
He soon reappeared, bearing in his hand a silvered paper, upon which he had written a declaration of love in seven-syllabled stanzas. From Wordnik.com. [The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal] Reference
In that beautiful poem, the verse is fixed at four beats or accents, but is free syllabled, having six, seven, ten, twelve, or fourteen. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
It will be seen that it is a characteristic of Macaulay to use numerous many-syllabled words, most of which come directly from the Latin. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
Garry Devereau's agreement was quick with enthusiasm, but Fat Joe who was better schooled in those slow-syllabled discussions, barely nodded his head. From Wordnik.com. [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference
The congregation supposing it all right, tuned up, and repeated it, though one would have been at great loss to make sense out of the myriad-syllabled confusion. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
He follows down the gradual Extinction of Syllables; and in this respect, our anciently syllabled, now mute E, takes high place, and falls first under his consideration. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
Besides following Wyatt in making the sonnet known to English readers, Surrey was the first to write in blank verse, that is in long ten-syllabled lines which do not rime. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
You can wander at will through its syllabled mazes. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 08: Bunker Hill and Other Poems] Reference
She thinks nothing short of four-syllabled words good enough for Philip. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Heir of Redclyffe] Reference
He uses only a few metrical forms -- by preference the eight-syllabled rhyming couplet. From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
But the reader must note that words which were two-syllabled in Latin mostly remain yet so in the French. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
"The Opp Eagle" had sprung full-syllabled from his teeming brain, and had been accepted over a hundred competitors. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Opp] Reference
Yet even then she seemed to be waiting some reply more potent than that syllabled on the lips of the man before her. From Wordnik.com. [Cressy] Reference
"Wha-a-at!" growled the old soldier, making the interjection as long in its utterance as half a dozen six-syllabled words. From Wordnik.com. [Marcus: the Young Centurion] Reference
The strain consisted of three notes in loud, ringing tones, which syllabled themselves very plainly in my ear as "Whip-for-her.". From Wordnik.com. [A Bird-Lover in the West] Reference
He had never dared to syllable his hopeless affection, or claim from her a syllabled -- perhaps I should say a one-syllabled -- reply. From Wordnik.com. [A Ward of the Golden Gate] Reference
'Talk on, Madge,' said Gower, to whom the girl's short-syllabled run of the lips was a mountain rill compared with London park waters. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
If both penult and antepenult of a four-syllabled word are short, the pre-antepenultimate receives the accent: Mádanikā, Sthā́varaka. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika] Reference
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