Sound N. sound, noise, strain; accent, twang, intonation, tone; cadence; sonorousness &c adj.; audibility; resonance &c 408; voice &c 580; aspirate; ideophone^; rough breathing.

"Well, it's the truth, then," he said, and his voice took on an accent of bitterness.

Only one voice seems out of tune: the white-eyed vireo, even to-day, cannot forget his saucy accent.

She did; and with so much graceful ease, and beauty, and propriety of accent, as would have made bad poetry delightful.

But as if she cared not to trust thee with the subject, referring to the same author as for his more positive decision, she thus, with the same harmony of voice and accent, emphatically decided upon it.

While I was wondering what could be the matter, down stairs ran Dorcas, and at my door, in an accent rather frightedly and hoarsely inward than shrilly clamorous, she cried out Fire!

We can make shift with the other two, repeated I, louder still: but yet mumblingly hoarse: for I had as great regard to uniformity in accent, as to my words.

The truth of the compliment, as far as I know, had taken dissimulation from my accent.

And, at last, she slowly recovering motion, with bitter sighs and sobs, (only the whites of her eyes however appearing for some moments,) I called upon her in the tenderest accent, as I kneeled by her, my arm supporting her head, My angel!

She was going to speak in a high accent, putting the letter from her, with an open palmNay, hear me out, MadamThe Captain, you know, has reported our marriage to two different persons.

All gentle, all intreative, my accent.

'Tis an unheard-of case, Ladieshad she not preferred me to all mankindThere I stoppedand that, resumed I, feeling for my handkerchief, is what staggered Captain Tomlinson when he heard of her flight; who, the last time he saw us together, saw the most affectionate couple on earth!the most affectionate couple on earth!in the accent-grievous, repeated I.

By her accent she wept when she spoke these last words.

B. SPANISH VERSE ENDINGS An accented word is called aguda when it has the accent on the last syllable, e.g. verdad, luz, yo; llana (or grave) when it has the accent on the penult, e.g. trabajo, fruto; esdrújula when it has the accent on the antepenult, e.g. límpido, pájaro, pórtico.

His verse is a product of pure intellect and wit, without a single lyric accent.

She looked at him in surprise, and said with the most expressive accent of truth, 'I have nothing to forgive any living creature.'

"Do what you please with me, Carlos," she whimpered with her slight accent from which all the music had fled.

When these reported, that their accent in speaking, their manner and appearance, were all of a more polished cast than suited shepherds, "Go then," said he, "tell them that they may uncover the ambush which they vainly conceal, that the Romans understand all their devices, and can now be no more taken by stratagem than they can be conquered by arms."

But his Punic accent, ill adapted to the pronunciation of Latin names, caused the guide to understand Casilinum, instead of Casinum; and leaving his former course, he descends through the territory of Allifae, Calatia, and Cales, into the plain of Stella, where, seeing the country enclosed on all sides by mountains and rivers, he calls the guide to him, and asks him where in the world he was?

"The man's a genius," he said, with all that authority with which a strong Scotch accent mysteriously endows the humblest Scot.

He was talking earnestly of fairies, in a beautiful Irish accent, and Henry liked him.

It was curious how strong my emotion was at seeing those laughing fellows and hearing the cockney accent of their tongues.

He had discovered a man from Wapping, I think, and was talking in the accent of Stratford-atte-Bow to boys from that familiar district of his youth.

A Tommy with the accent of the Fulham Road stood on a chair, steadying himself by a firm grasp on the shoulder of a French dragon, and made an incoherent speech in which he reviled the French troops as dirty dogs who ran away like mongrels, vowed that he would never have left England for such a bloody game if he had known the rights of it, and hoped Kitchener would break his blooming neck down the area of Buckingham Palace.

The Thames nigger is generally a cockney covered with blackening, which only alters his skin and does not change his accent.