"Mais" he exclaimed, with indignant arms outspread; and even in his own language he could find nothing to add to the expressive monosyllable.

These are all forgotten now; and this poor negro, who did not even possess a name, beyond one abrupt monosyllable,for even the name of Turner was the master's property,still lives a memory of terror and a symbol of retribution triumphant.

"Ah!" he dropped distinctly in deliberate monosyllables across the surcharged atmosphere of the scene.

I know you will apply to such an act that disgusting monosyllable of which Protestants are so fond.

It was Joel's first sight of a boat race, and he found himself becoming very excited, while West, veteran though he was, breathed a deal faster, and talked in disjointed monosyllables.

Chylde, the distinguished monosyllable, is a card of admission everywhere, everywhere that is anywhere.

You small boy there, hurry up that "Webster's Unabridged!" The little gentleman with the malformation, before described, shocked the propriety of the breakfast-table by a loud utterance of three words, of which the two last were "Webster's Unabridged," and the first was an emphatic monosyllable.

It was, perhaps, fortunate for Dewhurst that the little sermon, contrary to the practice of the courts, came after, in place of preceding the condemnation, for he had been rendered all but insensible by the formidable monosyllable.

At first he answered in grumpy monosyllables, but by the magic of a good cigar, he gradually let himself go, disclosing minute details of a most remarkable series of adventures.

" "Oh!" said Di; and her "Oh" was a most impressive monosyllable.

He dropped leaden monosyllables into the cheery flow of her conversation, and after breakfast put in his time at the woodshed.

But ae word explains a'GeniusGenius, wull a' the metafhizzians in the warld ever expound that mysterious monosyllable.

But what has the doubling of c by k, in our native monosyllables and their derivatives, to do with all these words of foreign origin?

To the questions of curiosity, or the appeals of complaisance, I could seldom answer but with negative monosyllables, or professions of ignorance; for the subjects on which they conversed, were such as are seldom discussed in books, and were therefore out of my range of knowledge.

He addresses me several times with great bonhomie and I respond with nervous monosyllables.

Again, in supposing our numerous monosyllables to be accented, and their quantity to be thereby fixed, without excepting "the particles, such as a, the, to, in, &c.," which were excepted by Sheridan, Murray has much augmented the multitude of errors which necessarily flow from the original rule.

Therefore she begs that the obnoxious monosyllable may be omitted on future Phials,an innocent syllable enough, you'll say, but she has no claim to it.

When his haunt is approached, he scolds the passenger in a great variety of odd and uncouth monosyllables, difficult to describe, but easily imitated so as to deceive the bird himself, and draw him after you to a good distance.

Of late, intercourse between the roommates had become reduced to rare monosyllables.

Now some syllables are accented, and others are unaccented; but syllables singly significant, i.e., monosyllables, which are very numerous, belong to neither of these classes.

No other leaf is identified with that singular monosyllable.

Towards the summit we met a couple of these beasts laden with tobacco from Kej, in charge of a wild-looking fellow in rags, as black as a coal, who eyed us suspiciously, and answered in sulky monosyllables when asked where he hailed from.

"He resisted all attempts at conversation, however, in the most dogged manner, barely returning surly monosyllables to my anxious wishes for his well being.

How significant are the forms she gives him for the foreground, sweet monosyllables!

His precise words, if I recall the original Greek, were Dos Pou Stoand the critical ear will detect a manlyerself-reliance in the terse monosyllables.