20 collocations for accents

When he asked us what we thought of "Valluck-ofair'," accenting strongly the last syllable, we could not imagine what he meant.

"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?"

" We left them engaged in this interesting distraction, the little rifle-snaps in all that mighty thundering seeming only to accent the loneliness and helplessness of their position, and spun on down the transverse road, toward another trench.

Lip gloss accented the color of her dressa pale but deep pink, fresh and elegant, white but tinged with the sadness of departing light; there were babies in it and the silver of moonlight on old barns.

Instead of accenting a composition in accordance with sense and rhythm, he exaggerated and prolonged the notes and intervals that were pleasing to his ear; he did not even hesitate to repeat them arbitrarily, when an expression of ecstasy frequently passed over his face.

Already the elder Thévenot has accented this contrast when he says: "These cause the teeth to be equal, those file them to points, giving them the shape of a saw.

He gloried in it, he insisted on it; I will not say that he affected minute daily acts of devotion, for that word would not accord with the spontaneity of his nature; but he accented his demonstrations, he spoke constantly of his religion.

Disproportionate outline, sharp conjunctures of affluence and squalor, accented the disheartening hideousness of the scene.

They looked strange enough to us and only accented our isolation and the odd semi-civilisation in which we were living.

Here we see a curious jumble of the common idea of accent, as "stress laid on some particular syllable of a word," with Sheridan's doctrine of accenting always "a particular letter of a syllable,"an idle doctrine, contrived solely for the accommodation of short quantity with long, under the accent.

The tall young officer said that this might not be doneit would draw the enemy's fire, and as if to accent this advice there was a sudden Bang!

The two women were nearly the same height and size; and although Teresa's maturer figure accented the outlines more strongly, it was still becoming enough to increase his irritation.

Her dress, too, of a slightly antique shape, rich but simple, seemed to reveal and accent a certain repose of gentlewomanliness, that he was now wishing to believe he had always noticed.

She paused, listening; the tic-toc of the hall clock accented the silence; the door that led from Celia's chamber into the hall stood wide open, and there was nobody in sight.

She accented the surname on the last syllable.

And now, in her fencing skirts of black and her black stockings, she was exceedingly ornamental, with the severe lines of the plastron accenting the white throat and chin, and the scarlet heart blazing over her own little heartunvexed by such details as love and lovers.

But how it was ever found out, that in these words we accent only the vowel u, and in such as hunter and bluntly, some one of the consonants only, he does not inform us.

A collar of pearls clasped her throat and accented the clear girlish lines of her profile.

She was only hurt at your lack of taste in accenting her own lost bloom by needlessly emphasizing another's possession of what had once been hers.

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.

20 collocations for  accents