The monosyllable was flung out as insolently as possible.

Resolutely, but with a shuddering insight of the importance of her reply, she answered with that one weighty monosyllable which can crush so many hopes, and even wreck a life: "No."

but she turned back towards the narrator of this thrilling story as the monosyllable broke from her lips.

Evil was pronounced almost as a monosyllable, and was at last contracted to ill.

A monosyllable, contracted afterwards into bloom.

" [150] A monosyllable.

No other leaf is identified with that singular monosyllable.

Mr. Van Torp uttered the monosyllable as he sat down in his own chair and pointed to a much less comfortable one, which Logotheti took.

The indifference of his opening monosyllable vanished in a second.

He that to these would join others, signified by the words life, sense, and spontaneous motion, needed but use the word ANIMAL to signify all which partaked of those ideas, and he that had made a complex idea of a body, with life, sense, and motion, with the faculty of reasoning, and a certain shape joined to it, needed but use the short monosyllable MAN, to express all particulars that correspond to that complex idea.

When he discovered I was totally ignorant of public places and public performers, he ingeniously turned the discourse to the amusements and occupations of the country; but I was unable to go further than a monosyllable in reply, and not even so far as that when I could possibly avoid it.

consonant, vowel; diphthong, triphthong [Gramm.]; mute, liquid, labial, dental, guttural. syllable; monosyllable, dissyllable^, polysyllable; affix, suffix. spelling, orthograph^; phonography^, phonetic spelling; anagrammatism^, metagrammatism^. cipher, monogram, anagram; doubleacrostic^. V. spell.

"Yes." The monosyllable was drawn out rather faintly.

Gregorio ate nothing, and looked on, uttering a monosyllable now and then, and laughing frantically, two or three times.

"You would not, then, propose to an heiress?" "No." As this monosyllable fell from his lips, Marguerite's motion placed her beyond hearing.

I read the character of my comrades every morning in each fellow's monosyllable "Here!" When the orderly is satisfied that not one of us has run away and accepted a Colonelcy from the Confederate States since last roll-call, he notifies those unfortunates who are to be on guard for the next twenty-four hours of the honor and responsibility placed upon their shoulders.

These are all forgotten now; and this poor negro, who did not even possess a name, beyond one abrupt monosyllable,for even the name of Turner was the master's property,still lives a memory of terror and a symbol of retribution triumphant.

"Because he had aprior claim, and it wouldn't be fair topoach upon his preserves?" He gave an ironic monosyllable laugh.

Chylde, the distinguished monosyllable, is a card of admission everywhere, everywhere that is anywhere.

Every one of the forty(except the thirty-sixth, "The last leaf") begins with a monosyllable which may be varied in quantity; so that, with stress laid on this monosyllable, the foot becomes an amphimac; without such stress, an anapest. OBS.

Every one of the forty(except the thirty-sixth, "The last leaf") begins with a monosyllable which may be varied in quantity; so that, with stress laid on this monosyllable, the foot becomes an amphimac; without such stress, an anapest. OBS.

Treen, for trees, or for an adjective meaning a tree's, or made of a tree, is exhibited in several of our dictionaries, and pronounced as a monosyllable: but Dr. Beattie, in his Poems, p. 84, has made it a dissyllable, with three like letters divided by a hyphen, thus: "Plucking from tree-en bough her simple food.

Now, we have banished even the monosyllable To!

I asked if all were well there, and the simple, monosyllable, "Yes," answered with unusual quickness and decision, was all that escaped the doctor's lips.

I recollect a story of my father's which illustrates the force of dialect, although confined to the inflections of a single monosyllable.