At present camels are accommodated in the Carnivorium, and so are cows, which is a sort of slur upon the habits of these poor innocent vegetarians.

She had caught, moreover, the trick of slurring from one note to the other, which must assuredly have been left in Spain by the Moors.

though more than one shivering fair spoke a low, slurring word about "those coarse Americans!" Both Pelletan and the notary had been careful to respect Rushford's wish that his connection with the hotel be kept to themselves; in all their boastings, rejoicings, explanations, his name had not been whispered; and not even to his daughters had that gentleman confided the secret of his plan to get the excitement he had craved so badly.

The King is angry with the Duke of Gloucester for slurring over a part of the address from Cambridge, which was very loyal, and for not kissing his hand.

He casts nativities as gamesters do false dice, and by slurring and palming sextile, quartile, and trine, like six, quatre, trois, can throw what chance he pleases.

Yet, immediately afterward, I heard again the slurring of the bedclothes being dragged off the bed.

I substitute analysis, and get rid of the phenomenon by slurring in for it its impression.

"Don't you ever read the papers, down here?" "Certainly," I retorted with some spirit, for the implied slur upon Our Square stung me.

The artists and their friends were, naturally, greatly incensed at this slur cast upon them, and an indignant and remarkably able reply appeared anonymously in the New York "Evening Post."

When Mr. Lister paid for a drink, the demon of avarice masquerading as conscience preached a teetotal lecture, and when he showed signs of profiting by it, the demon of drink would send him hanging round public-house doors cadging for drinks in a way which his shipmates regarded as a slur upon the entire ship's company.

She noted the slur without anger.

Katy John said to her one day, in the soft, slurring accent that colored her English.

Such was the case at Washington in 1835 when following on the heels of a man's arrest for the crime of possessing incendiary publications and his trial within the jail as a precaution to keep him from the mob's clutches, a new report was spread that Beverly Snow, the free mulatto proprietor of a saloon and restaurant between Brown's and Gadsby's hotels, had spoken in slurring terms of the wives and daughters of white mechanics as a class.

All neglect, carelessness, slurring over work, is a sin; a sin against God, who has called us to our work; a sin against our country and our neighbours, who ought to profit by our work; and a sin against ourselves also, for we (as I shall shew you soon) ought to be made wiser and better men by our work.

And each should ever be careful to perform his part handsomelywithout drawling, omitting, stopping, hesitating, faltering, miscalling, reiterating, stuttering, hurrying, slurring, mouthing, misquoting, mispronouncing, or any of the thousand faults which render utterance disagreeable and inelegant.

The opposite faults are mumbling, muttering, mincing, lisping, slurring, mouthing, drawling, hesitating, stammering, misreading, and the like.

and, as the abbreviation amounted to nothing but the slurring of one vowel sound into an other, it has now, I think, very deservedly become obsolete.

Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovelled and hustled together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not all men lie; Peace in her vineyardyes!but a company forges the wine.

"'Before long the New York man began slurring his words, running them together and sticking the signals; but I had been used to all that sort of thing in taking reports, so I wasn't put out in the least.

Right there, I took exception and said that from his own point of view I did not see what good slurring the American press would do his cause.

The former method is termed elision, and the latter, slurring.

She succeeded in slurring it ludicrously.

"Well, so did I," the Pilgrim began eagerly, with just the least slurring of his syllables.

Unconsciously he is aware that this will regulate the plunging, the reading with unequal paces, slurring over one part, instead of leaving it out altogether, if it is unimportant, and mumbling another.

As the gate had opened and closed, on the bricks of the pavement was heard only the tap of his stout walking-stick; for he was gouty and wore loose low shoes of the softest calfskin, and these made no noise except the slurring sound of slippers.