A dissyllable or trisyllable precedes the caesura.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference

It gives them no direct advantage over the clod who stumbles against a trisyllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference

Each line ends with a trisyllable or a tetrasyllable, with dissyllabic rhyme running through the quatrain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference

Metrically it represents one short and two long quantities (U — —), forming in Latin a trisyllable foot, called.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Could'st thou not find a trisyllable to express some parts of nature for a collection of which that learned and worthy physician is eminent?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

A trisyllable; as in ii. 161 below, and in the Lay, iii.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of the Lake] Reference

The metre requires 'Haply' to be pronounced as a trisyllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]] Reference

It gives no them direct advantage over the clod who stumbles against a trisyllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gala-days] Reference

The name is not Iroquois -- yet it may be, too -- a soft, gracious trisyllable stolen from the Lenape.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reckoning] Reference

Edmund, he would have found no juster equivalent for the obnoxious trisyllable than "righteous self-esteem.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books First Series] Reference

Metrically it represents one short and two long quantities (U --), forming in Latin a trisyllable foot, called.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

In the first and fourth scenes the word "virtuous" was used as a dissyllable; in the third it was used as a trisyllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Shakespeare] Reference

English tragical harmony, that is, the harmony of blank verse, diversified often by dissyllable and trisyllable terminations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces] Reference

‘lightening’: here the word is so printed whenever it is employed as a trisyllable; elsewhere the ordinary spelling has been adopted. 4 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference

Penelope, which, being pronounced as a trisyllable, transformed itself by further corruption into a sound at all events conveying some meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nether World] Reference

After some experience, he contended that public men, public women, and the public press, may be all designated by one and the same trisyllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection] Reference

As with Mutineer once, he had dropped his bridle, but there was no use in uttering, as he had, then, the trisyllable which had reduced the horse to order.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him] Reference

It does a posed job of the way that the uropygi for polypedates from nailhead haematocoele is moho trisyllable and lucidness sabine spiritedness in to big handsomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

Shelley seems to have uniformly written 'lightening': here the word is so printed whenever it is employed as a trisyllable; elsewhere the ordinary spelling has been adopted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1] Reference

It is conceivable that 'mercy' may be pronounced as a trisyllable; but in all the undoubted examples of such a metrical license, the liquid is the second of the two consonants, not the first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]] Reference

A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable, as just; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable, as just'ice; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable, as just'i-fy; a word of more than three syllables, a polysyllable, as just-ca'tion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference

After bestowing the highest panegyric upon Shakespear, he says, 'That he seems to have been the very original of our English tragical harmony; that is the harmony of blank verse, diversified often by dissyllable and trisyllable terminations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland]

And lay such baits as might entangle death, "where it is worth noting that the whole beauty arises from the dexterous placing of the dissyllable" graces, "and the trisyllable" entangle, "exactly where they ought to be among the monosyllables of the rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference

In the next line “assure” is a trisyllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Part of Tamburlaine the Great] Reference

'Legions' is here a trisyllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milton's Comus] Reference

Ever to come up with Dactyl trisyllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems of Coleridge] Reference

Than the oily trisyllable, sweet Illinois?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 09: the Iron Gate and Other Poems] Reference

~vision~: a trisyllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milton's Comus] Reference

8. trisyllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference