He had once travelled five hundred miles under the name of Prince Gotoffski, in a fur coat, a foreign accent, a false moustache and a special saloon carriage.

CICERO spoke Greek with a slight Roman accent and M. GOUNARIS speaks it with a strong German one.

"In leaving the palace of the Cancellaria, one met some faces gleaming with a hellish joy, others pallid with alarm; many townspeople standing as if petrified; agitators, running this way and that, carbineers the same; one kind of men might be heard muttering imprecations on the assassin, but the generality faltered in broken and doubtful accents; some, horrible to relate, cursed the murdered man.

The baronet raised him in his arms, and, with the gentlest accents that friendship ever poured into a mortal ear, recovered him to life and perception.

As I stood on the platform last Saturday evening devouring the latest war news under the dim oil lamp, a voice behind me said, in broad rural accent, "Bill, I say, W.G. is dead."

" Was it my fancy that when she spoke again there was a faint accent of disappointment?

She spoke perfectly, but there was a little accent, a delightful accent, that told me she was Irish.

" I remember a beautiful young lady, faultlessly dressed, who in soft, musical accents interrupted Mr. Birrell at the Mansion House.

He was standing just where he had started, and gazing along the line of the elevated road, looking for a station, when the familiar accents of the Object again saluted him.

" "Do not be uneasy," cried his lordship, endeavouring to assume an harmonious, but missing his point, he spoke in the shrillest and most squeaking accent that can be imagined.

He spoke with a marked foreign accent, but very courteously, to the two officials, who, he begged, would excuse him if he went on with his breakfast.

She tuk it up, and said with accents mild, "'Tare-and-agers, girls, which av yez owns the child?" His humorous rhymes were, however, more often quips and cranks at the expense of his contemporaries.

There was a sharp accent in the Indian woman's voice, and a bitter expression on her face.

The Roman Cornelia, who never suffered a provincial accent, or a grammatical barbarism in the hearing of her children, has always been cited with commendation; and the subsequent rhetorical excellence of the Gracchi has been in a great degree ascribed to it.

And sang, in accents sweet and low, Beneath, her window (so says rumor), "Than others art thou fairer far, Du bist wie eine bloomer.

And in this "master," so tender, so caressingly submissive, this term of complete abandonment by which she called him, in order to avoid using the words godfather or uncle, which she thought silly, there was, for the first time, a passionate accent of revolt, the revindication of a being recovering possession of and asserting itself.

To speed a parting friend 'Tis vain alike to speak and listen; Yet stay,these feeble accents blend With rays of light from eyes that glisten.

Sacrifice and sacrament, and every kind of natural religious symbolism, has been appropriated and consecrated to the service of truth and to the fullest utterance of God that such weak accents will stretch to.

If from my lips some angry accents fell, Peevish complaint, or harsh reproof unkind, 'T was but the error of a sickly mind And troubled thoughts, clouding the purer well And waters clear of Reason; and for me Let this my verse the poor atonement be, My verse, which thou to praise wert e'er inclined Too highly, and with partial eye to see No blemish.

" "Me or 'im?" repeated Mr. Silk, in stern but broken accents.

Some very long words indeed admit a secondary accent on another syllable; but still this is much inferior, and leaves one leading accent prominent: as in expos'tulatory.

Sheep on the hills around me feeding, While in their piteous accents pleading, The lambkins' bleatings float.

The tongue of Hannah, too, had learnt to speak the Indian language with a pure, native accent, that no one could acquire who had not been brought up among the red men; so that there was little fear of his being known for a pale-face, amid the excitement and confusion of the war.

And after a pause the doctor went on, speaking in measured and solemn accents.

The tongue of Hannah, too, had learnt to speak the Indian language with a pure, native accent, that no one could acquire who had not been brought up among the red men; so that there was little fear of his being known for a pale-face, amid the excitement and confusion of the war.