And romantic ... spoken with that upward inflection to which Ina was a prey.

The man's musical inflection jarred on Gifford, who began to wonder whether their companion could be a professional singer.

But out of the suggestions and reminiscences of Greek lines they made a rigid and inflexible grammar of their own,a grammar to suit the mailed clang of Roman speech, which, in its cruel martial strength, sought no refinements, no delicate inflections from a distant Acropolis.

A word or phrase may have a double or triple connotation, and depend upon vocal inflection, upon gesture, upon the words with which it is linked, upon the experience of speaker or hearer, upon time, place, and external fact, or upon other forces outside it for the sense in which it is to be taken.

They have a peculiar inflection, chiefly by reason of the Imperf.

It was merely the cry of the night bird, calling to its mate, one would have said, but Robert's attention was attracted by an odd inflection in it, a strain that seemed familiar.

The inflections given to our words never embraced any other vowel power than that of the short e or i; and even, this we are inclined to dispense with, whenever we can; so that most of our grammatical inflections are, to the ear, nothing but consonants blended with the final syllables of the words to which they are added.

She laughed pleasantly, but with a faint inflection of derision, as if she knew, as she did, that the uncivilised children of the foothills, like their fathers, fear nothing on earth so much as rattlers and ridicule.

Others, contending that a case in grammar could be nothing else than a terminational inflection, and observing that English nouns have but one case that differs from the nominative in form, denied that there were more than two, the nominative and the possessive.

"She sees to that," came from Oliver, with a humorous inflection.

There are rotative inflections from one shoulder to the other; this is impatience, regret.

His tone, even, seemed to have lost the whimsical inflection of the tramp.

The bird was a master of sarcastic inflection.

The derogative sense of sly and cunning, which is, in the original, implied by the demonstrative pronoun "that," a Chippewa would express by a mere inflection of the word fox, conveying a bad or reproachful idea; and the pronoun cannot be charged with an ironical meaning.

ask I, with a highly-dissuasive inflection of voice.

The radix, in baud, has thus the second person thou in ke; and the objective inflection, iz-ze, means a person in a general sense.

"You see," he said, with the doubtful inflection of a man who pauses at incredible things, "there were two great panthers there...

"Oh," she exclaimed, and, a moment later she repeated the ejaculation in a drier tone and with a downward inflection.

"Miss Vernor, of course", she said, with a very tender inflection of voice.

Is it not so, my son?" Was it the gentle inflection of the question, or his intent glance that made me feel, as I had felt before that day, that I was face to face with an alert antagonist?

I guess there may be some truth in that," said Roy with a rather grim inflection.

There was an icy inflection in the tones which sent a chill to Marcantonio's heart as he listened.

We shall confine ourselves to a description of the primary and most usual imitative inflections.

Not that he ever said anything to justify fear of himhe was more silent at home than elsewhere; but he was imperious, fastidious, and sarcastic with me by a look, a gesture, an inflection of his voice.

" "Four thousand?" said the passenger with an inquisitive and surprised rising inflection.