But if you ever lisp a word to any living soul till I'm safely married to CUPID, I'll kill you, dead sure.

'There, now you look exactly as my brother used to do when he knelt at my mother's knee, and she taught him to lisp his evening prayer,' exclaimed Henrich and his eyes glistened with emotion, as home, and all its loved associations, rushed into his mind.

For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.

What had Nobili to do in the Garfagnana?" "Ask him," lisped Orazio; "it will save more talking.

it makes me sick!" "Knowles's inclination to that sort of people is easily explained," spitefully lisped the doctor.

" "We tum too," lisped Dodo.

Omai lisped broken English, and made all the assembled musicians hold their ears by howling Otaheitean love-songs, such as those with which Oberea charmed her Opano.

The twilight hour was dear to me, With murmur'd tone of evening prayer; When with hands clasp'd upon your knee, And learned to lisp "Our Father" there.

It wing'd from heaven, his spirit hath return'd, To lisp his hallelujahs with the choirs Of sinless babes, imparadised above.

If he conducted like a man of honor, he would merit your esteem; but his behavior is quite the reverse: yet, vile as he is, he would not dare to lisp his insolent hopes of your regard if you punished his presumption with the indignation it deserves; if you spurned from your presence the ungrateful wretch who would requite your condescension by triumphing in your ruin.

" Little Amy lisped a hurried, "By, by, Dolly, good Fishy!"

Here, have we clustered around the knees of a mother and drank rich instruction from her pious lips, and offered up the morning and the evening prayer, and lisped our hymn of praise, while she ever strove to impress the golden rule upon the young and tender minds committed to her care; and her example was ever that of a consistent Christian.

You lisping idiot!

he suddenly exclaimed, "I have it!" "What have you, Pan?" faintly lisped the expiring Iridion.

While a slave bewails his fetters; While an orphan pleads in vain; While an infant lisps his letters, Heir of all the age's gain; While a lip grows ripe for kissing; While a moan from man is wrung; Know, by every want and blessing, That the world is young.

Many voices that lisped their matin and their vesper hymns by one hearth stone, were now scattered far and wide, and other homes had sprung up, and the children had become parents, and new duties devolved upon them.

" "Don't tell him about it, Reggie," lisped Mrs. Parton-Mills.

A school-teacher leading her troop of merry children on their morning walk around the bastion, nodded to us pleasantly and forthwith the whole company of chubby-cheeked rogues, looking up at us with a pleasant archness, lisped a "guten morgen" that made the hearts glad within us.

what a weary race my feet have run, Since first I trod thy banks with alders crowned, And thought my way was all through fairy ground, Beneath thy azure sky and golden sun, Where first my Muse to lisp her notes begun!

The very babe just beginning to toddle is taught to lisp the adventures of Momotaro, the daring conqueror of ogre-land.

Spanish came easily enough to a learner who had been thoroughly drilled in French and Italian, and who had been taught the rudiments of Latin; so by the end of a lesson, which went on at intervals all day, the pupil was able to lisp a passage of Don Quixote in the sweetest Castilian, very sweet to the ear of Don Gomeza kind of baby language, precious as the first half-formed syllables of infancy to mothers.

for now again the scene is changed; A group before that rustic altar ranged, With bended knee the throne of grace implore, On infant heads its showers of love to pour; That infant tongues may lisp the praise of God, To guide their feet in paths by Jesus trod.

but there thy lisping tongue prattles ill, for she loves me as a brother, and I love her as if she were my sister."

Mannabosho, the good; of Nenaubosho the evilin her lisping Ojibway dialect that sounded like the softer voices of the forest.

I laugh to see men go on our errands, strut in great offices, live in cares, hazards and scandals, to come home and be fools to us in brags of their dispatches, negotiations, and their wisdomsas my good dear deceas'd use to entertain me; which I, to relieve myself from, would lisp some silly request, pat him on the face.