" "The Squire!" said Miss Whalley again, in staccato tones.

The voice over the telephone came in brisk, staccato sentences.

So the Señorita da Cordova held the party at Craythew spellbound while other things were happening very near them which would have interested them much more than her trills, and her 'mordentini,' and her soaring runs, and the high staccato notes that rang down from the ceiling as if some astounding and invisible instrument were up there, supported by an unseen force.

Long- extended, stammering, staccato sounds, which we took to mean rifle firing, came to our ears also.

Charles Lamb celebrated the virtues of this pregnant, staccato style with somewhat immoderate admiration, and thus helped to set a fashion of spasmodic pithiness in dialogue, which too often resulted in dense obscurity.

Montgomery was speaking in the hard, staccato voice of a man who is holding himself in with difficulty.

Carroll's voice was snapping out with staccato insistence.

She seems to me to be deliberately committing herself to what I can only describe as a staccato method.

Then rising, it glided forward with the same staccato movement until opposite the slight elevation of the forehatch.

" The wind brought the staccato music of the circus band to the foster-mother's ears.

"Easy, boys!" cautioned Hank, and his voice rasped out in the quiet that succeeded the staccato noise from the motor cycle.

The question whether a legato or a staccato opening be the more desirable must be decided in accordance with the nature and opportunities of each theme.

The advantage of a staccato openingor, to vary the metaphor, a brisk, highly aerated introductory passageis clearly exemplified in A Doll's House.

The intense stillness of the early morning hours carried the sound in little staccato beats that could be heard blocks away.

After what seemed more than an hour, though in fact it was but the ten minutes agreed on with Bohannan, off behind them toward the coast a sudden staccato popping of revolvers began to puncture the night.

The blows echoed with staccato rapidity through the sacred Haram, which now had begun to fill with the confused roar of the on-coming mobs from the Ma'abidah suburb and the Plain of Mina, from Jebel Hindi and the Sulaymainyah quarter.

And then before the two dragging the stretcher could move in a last desperate rush for safety, before they could rise from their prone position, they heard the rattle of fire increase swiftly to a trembling staccato roar.

It appeared that Mr. Negget sent off a humorous message with his left eye, the right being for some reason closed, to which Mrs. Negget replied with a series of frowns and staccato shakes of the head, which her husband found easily translatable.

There came a second shot; then in sharp staccato succession four others, followed by the ugly little metallic click announcing that the gun had emptied itself.

"The womanwhosoldmethe Charity League papers dined at my house in Parisa fortnight ago," said Vassili, with a staccato tap on his companion's knee by way of emphasis to each word.

For twenty minutes after that Hadad and Jeremy swapped reminiscences in quick staccato time.

Two opposing and frenzied lines of traffic clashed along the road that led through it and became a noisy jumble in the little square at its centre, a disordered mass of camions, artillery, heavy supply wagons, field kitchens, ambulances, with motorcycles at its edges like excited terriers, lending a staccato vivacity to its uproar.

The dancing tunes of the Kamchadals are of course entirely different in character, being generally very lively, and made up of energetic staccato passages, repeated many times in succession, without variation.

The pack stretched out in wild staccato chorus, the little Airedales literally screeching.

The staccato crack of guns sounded sharply above the deeper roar of the mob.