He had laid an odd emphasis on the word "placed"; he had repeated it.

We shall perhaps see that the direct emphasis of so many of Charles Dickens's signatures which is given by his "flourish" may be fitly associated with certain characteristics of the man himself.

" Instead, she plunges into a prolix recital of the circumstances of the engagement, so that the all-important fact that the engagement exists has no special emphasis in her welter of words.

he finished in secret emphasis to himself.

The emphasis with which Mr. Jinks uttered the various "sirs," in this address, was terrible.

'Umph!' said the Highland chief of M'Lean with more emphasis than before, 'And yon smaller house?'

And then with his kind eyes on her and his good ugly mouth stretched as for delicate emphasis from ear to ear: "Every little helps!" He made her wonder for him, ask herself, and with a certain intensity, questions she yet hated the trouble of; as whether he were still as moneyless as in the other timewhich was certain indeed, for any fortune he ever would have made.

" "Honest Balthazar, thou throwest too much emphasis into thy words," interposed the bailiff.

Certain contrasts which took on a heightened emphasis by reason of their brutal abruptness, abounded all over Belgium.

Soft cheeks became rosy at his approachpartly, perhaps, because soft and dainty toes in satin slippers were trodden upon with maternal emphasis at that moment.

In some of these plays, the vanity of bold ambition is brought out with particular emphasis through the contrast between the daring and dissatisfied Faust and his farcical counterpart, the jolly and contented Casperle.

She completed my sentence with her own nestling emphasis for "this one.

The important commissions which are given them in connection with the great expositions of the timethe execution of memorial statues and monuments, fountains, and various other works which is confided to them, testifies to their excellence in their art with an emphasis beyond that of words.