Love is sparingly soluble in the words of men; therefore they speak much of it; but one syllable of woman's speech can dissolve more of it than a man's heart can hold.

As some old language of the dead, In one resounding syllable, Says Rome and Greece and all is said A simple word a child may spell; So in your liquid note impearled Sings the long epic of the world.

Haught is frequently used for haughty, when the poet wants to abridge it of a syllable: thus Shakespeare, in "Richard III."

Besides, the measure requires a word of one syllable.

In words of one syllable what do we care for poverty or precious stones?" Jack Harpe followed this flight of fancy with an uncertain smile.

I'll tell you how it is all in words of one syllable.

"Ah! do not read it now, Roswell," she said, in an under tone; but the stillness and expectation were so profound, that every syllable she uttered was heard by all in the room.

[Footnote 2: 'Com'ply,' with accent on first syllable: comply with means pay compliments to, compliment.

(4) Final e is usually sounded (like a in Virginia) except where the following word begins with a vowel or with h. In the latter case the final syllable of one word and the first of the word following are run together, as in reading Virgil.

The third meter is the eight-syllable line with four accents, the lines riming in couplets, as in the "Boke of the Duchesse":

It was a purely wild and primitive American sound, as much as the barking of a chickaree, and I could not understand a syllable of it; but Paugus, had he been there, would have understood it.

Four other sleepers were despatched in like manner, without time given them to utter a syllable.

I will not be watched; I believe not a syllable of such pity; and I will not be made a sight of, and a by-word.

unintelligibleevery syllable of it!'

Every syllable.

GENTLEMEN, I believe you understand already that neither I nor any of the original and regular writers in the Review will ever contribute a syllable to a work belonging to booksellers.

I call God to witness that in the whole course of my life I never heard one syllable of Mr. Lamb or his family.

The ship 'Manchester,' which she had also alongside, was seriously injured, having her bulwarks carried away, her longboat destroyed," &c. Such was the paragraph, with not a syllable of note or comment on cause or consequences.

Prentiss!Prentiss! with all their might, on the top of the voice, and with an accent, sharp and rising, on the first syllable.

Once she tried to speak, but had no power to shape a syllable aright, and ended with a shuddering sigh.

A more practical word, in the shape of a new compound, may be made in Algoma, a term in which the first syllable of the generic name of this tribe of the Algonquin stock, harmonizes very well with the Indian idea of goma (sea), giving us, Sea of the Algonquins.

The final syllable wä, in compound words, stands for voice.

The full meaning of the present class of verbs and substantives of the language could be advantageously transferred to the first, or second, or third syllable of the words, converting them into monosyllables.

The colors, seasons, cardinal points, &c., would consist of the first syllable of the present words.

Pa may stand for the definite article, being the first syllable of pazhik; and a comma for the indefinite article.