16 adverbs to describe how to accent

A King's River Indian told me that they call him "Pillillooeet," which, rapidly pronounced with the first syllable heavily accented, is not unlike the lusty exclamation he utters on his way up a tree when excited.

"Of dissyllables, which are at once nouns and verbs, the verb has commonly the accent on the latter, and the noun, on the former syllable.

"I reckon I am," he replied, gazing steadily at her without feeling or resentment and speaking slowly, "yes, I'm an 'ign'rant, savage, stupid brute,'" deliberately accenting each word as he repeated the stinging phrase, "butwhat's the use?"

Silence, delicately accented by the faint harmony of mosquitoes, brooded over Cooper's Bluff.

Hence this short measure is much less common than the others, which are accented differently.

Generally, but incorrectly, accented on the second syllable.

with the first syllable keenly accented, and the second drawn out like the scream of a hawk,repeating this slowly and more emphatically at first, then gradually faster, until a rate of about 150 words a minute is reached; usually sitting all the time on his haunches, with paws resting on his breast, which pulses visibly with each word.

In that noblest of our verses, the unrhymed iambic pentameter, two short or lightly-accented syllables may often gracefully and effectively take the place of a long or heavily-accented one; but great metrists contrive their pauses by the artistic choice and position of their syllables, and not by leaving them out.

Rather, it looked strange because still familiar, and therefore incongruous with the new atmosphere that surrounded itdiscordant with the echo of their last meeting, and painfully accenting the change.

nor anybody else' The effort of repeating the Prince's utterance with what was meant to be a princely accent proved so exhausting to Mr. Fouracres that he sank together in his chair and lost all power of coherent speech.

" Some note of satisfaction, not quite perfectly concealed, some sly accent of triumph sounding through the gently modulated words, smote upon Luffe's ears, and warned him that the true meaning of the Diwan's visit was only now to be revealed.

CHAPTER XVII The smoke and spiteful crackle of the pickets' fusilade had risen to one unbroken crash, solidly accented by the report of field guns.

He also, in some instances, accents similar words variously: as, cor'alliform, upon the first syllable, metal'liform, upon the second; cav'ilous and pap'illous, upon the first, argil'lous, upon the second; ax'illar, upon the first, medul'lar, upon the second.

" He looked at me for the first timeand softened his tone a bitmy white hair and beastly accent, I supposeas he asked: "What is it for?" I told him it was to prevent a detachment of Uhlans from coming up the hill.

He also strove to secure originality and to stimulate astonishment by bizarre modulations of accepted classic forms, by breaking the lines of architraves, combining angularities with curves, adopting a violently accented rhythm and a tortured multiplicity of parts, wherever this was possible.

At length, "Marry you!" says the Brat, in a deeply-accented tone of low and awed disbelief.

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