It is rather singular that Volkmar, whose speculations about the Book of Judith we have seen above, should be so emphatic as he is in asserting the use of all three Synoptics by Clement.

The protest was so emphatic that Sylvester pulled his cigar out of his mouth, brushed away the smoke, and looked searchingly at Sheila.

The only thing I had the sense to call out was: "Where 'd you come from?" One of them made an emphatic gesture with his stick, over his shoulder in the direction from which they had come.

But to the excursionists and fishermen of New York he is known only as Porgy, or Paugie, a form as obviously derived from the last syllable of his Indian name as the emphatic "siree" of our greatest orators is from the modest monosyllable "sir.

Ketch me lett'n' go!" was Abel's emphatic answer.

This is usually not, as in English, that of grammatical dependence, but rather the order of thought; important or emphatic words come first, after the connecting particles; prepositions and the article precede their nouns; and qualifying terms are grouped in a harmonious balance around the principal ones.

fem., § 28; circumflex, § 6; local dat., § 88; emphatic position, § 98.

because the predicate; emphatic position, § 98. 11. Οὖτοςpron., § 39; agrees with Αόγος, understood (§ 73) as subj.

without noun expressed, § 74; subject of sentence; emphatic position, § 98. 13.

Perhaps the statement was made the more emphatic in view of some remarks recently uttered by two young men whose influence, along with more general tendencies, proved fatal to the old doctrine.

Discourse itself, it will be observed, has its pauses, seasons of repose thickly interspersed in the action of speech; and besides these has its accented and unaccented syllables, emphatic and unemphatic words,illustrating thus in itself the law which it here affirms.

He was as emphatic about this, laying his finger on one's arm to enforce it, as about catching mice or educating the people.

"Oh!" rejoined Stevens, "that is only my emphatic way of speaking."

To the amusement of all, and to my increased consternation, he drew forth a volume of the "Wild Irish Girl," (which he had brought to return to Lady Ck) and, reading, with his deep, emphatic voice, one of the most high-flown of its passages, he paused, and patting the page with his forefinger, with the look of Hamlet addressing Polonius, he said, "Little girl, why did you write such nonsense?

She suddenly made an enigmatic, emphatic exclamation, "Goodness gracious!" and reaching out her long arms, pulled Sylvia up on her lap, holding her close.

"Well, upon my word!" exclaimed Mrs. Hubert, in a widely spaced, emphatic phrase of condemnation.

Her father would have been aghast if he could have felt the slightest reflection from the heat of her detestation of his favorite, Emersonian motto, which, now that he had reached five and forty, he was apt to repeat with the iteration natural to his age, rousing in Sylvia the rebellious exasperation felt by her age for over-emphatic moralizings.

Of this he assured Philemon, in language the most explicit and emphatic.

His comment met with emphatic approval from his listeners.

The repetition of the "you" is emphatic, not tautological, and is demanded by the whole meaning of the passage.

He aimed only to make the deepest and most efficient impression; and he employed for this purpose, the plainest, the fewest, and the most emphatic words."Ib., p. 68.

It disencumbers their familiar dialect of a multitude of harsh and useless terminations, which serve only, when uttered, to give an uncouth prominency to words not often emphatic; and, without impairing the strength or perspicuity of the language, increases its harmony, and reduces the form of the verb in the second person singular nearly to the same simplicity as in the other persons and numbers.

The latter remark is generally true, and it ought to be remembered; but, in the imperative mood, be and have will perhaps admit the emphatic word do before them, in a colloquial style: as, "Now do be careful;""Do have a little discretion."

Nevertheless, the prize was not awarded to this work, but to another which the President praised in a manner decidedly less marked and emphatic.

On the other hand she introduced the baronet to Miss Danvers with that slightly emphatic manner which intimates that the parties may entertain a "high consideration" for each other.