155 adjectives to describe emphases

"I have come out with you, commodore," said Captain Truck, when they had got to their station, and laying a peculiar emphasis on the appellation he used, "in order to enjoy myself, and you will confer an especial favour on me by not using such phrases as 'cable-rope,' 'casting anchor,' and 'titivating.'

Springing up, he went on with slow, sorrowful emphasis: "Men begin die" "Zen we come," said the Father, "wiz nurses and proper medicine" Nicholas gave the ghost of a shrug, adding the damaging fact: "Sickness come to Holy Cross.

Even as a moralist, he seems to have sacrificed the ideal to the practical, and his loose notions about marriage, his tolerance of concubinage, the slight emphasis which he lays on the virtue of veracityof which indeed he does not seem himself to have been particularly studious in his historic writingsplace him low down in the rank of moralists.

" "Explain!" repeated the Prince, with bitter emphasis.

" "Trust me, I shall never forget," said Greenleaf, with a marked emphasis, and a grateful look towards the lovely widow.

" The good Mrs. Mervyn accompanied these words with looks so sly, and emphasis so significant, that Rhoda was fain to look down, to hide her blushes; and compassionating the confusion she herself had caused, the kind old lady led her to the chamber which was henceforward, so long as she consented to remain, to be her own apartment.

Dr. Johnson repeated, with solemn emphasis, Macbeth's speech on meeting the witches.

Lady Chatterton, allow me to present our friend, Colonel Egerton"adding, in a low tone, and with a little emphasis, "heir to Sir Edgar.

I am only too conscious of the fact that the division of my subject under these categorical heads, and the necessities of special argument, if not indeed of special pleading, have forced me to such particular stress on each subject as may very likely give an impression of undue emphasis.

I mention to her everything, you see!"and he almost simpered while, still in his seat, he held the end of his cigarette, all delicately and as for a form of gentle emphasis, with the tips of his fine fingers.

" "But it did not," I asserted, with deliberate emphasis.

Her budding aversions, convictions, ambitions were not in the least the aversions, convictions, and ambitions so loudly voiced about her; and a good deal of her energy was taken up in a more or less conscious reaction from the family catchwords, with especial emphasis laid on an objection to the family habit of taking their convictions with great seriousness.

How absurd," said Mr. Skeelty with scornful emphasis.

But Dwight now supplied it: "Miss Lulu Bett," he explained with loud emphasis, and Lulu burned her slow red.

"Yes, I would," said Peg, with fierce emphasis.

The late Dr. Carrington, of Farmington, who told me the tale, being ten miles from home on a professional excursion, drove up to a tavern and found himself welcomed with extraordinary emphasis by the innkeeper.

"So much!" quoted Nancy with dramatic emphasis.

He had laid an odd emphasis on the word "placed"; he had repeated it.

It was hardly less natural that they should have expressed their opinions on these concrete issues with considerable emphasis.

The young man started, rose, then sat again, shouting out with angry emphasis: "No!"

Mr. Tooke was uneasy and apprehensive for the issue of the Government-prosecution while in confinement, and said, in speaking of it to a friend, with a morbid feeling and an emphasis quite unusual with him"They want our bloodbloodblood!"

he said, with grave emphasis; "I am not joking.

Amen." Roy grasped Dudley's hands eagerly and earnestly, and repeated his vow in the same words, perhaps with additional emphasis; then with a sigh of relief, he turned to chatter of other things.

Hilda agreed, with an exaggerated emphasis that showed a lack of conviction.

she asked, with a queer, faint emphasis which I didn't understand.

155 adjectives to describe  emphases