I know you will apply to such an act that disgusting monosyllable of which Protestants are so fond.

You consent?" The other swallowed, muttered a monosyllable in a low tone.

"He resisted all attempts at conversation, however, in the most dogged manner, barely returning surly monosyllables to my anxious wishes for his well being.

She rarely got beyond monosyllables with Hollis' father.

In 1792 he was sent to a rudimentary day school of girls and boys, taught by a Mr. Bowers, where he seems to have learnt nothing save to repeat monosyllables by rote.

And, indeed, whether the stress which distinguishes some monosyllables from others, is supposed by the writer to be accent, or emphasis, or both, it is scarcely possible to ascertain from his elucidations.

Unbidden, a word shaped in Sofia's consciousness, a French monosyllable into which the war had packed every shade and gradation of hatred and contempt, the epithet Boche.

"Ah!" he dropped distinctly in deliberate monosyllables across the surcharged atmosphere of the scene.

It held the monosyllables like drops of water trembling before they fell.

When she did hesitate, it only meant that she was seeking for the simplest word, and she would cap her pause with a monosyllable as curt as an explosion.

They stood in front of Marcos and spoke in monosyllables after the manner of old friends.

The school-house is still standing in Huntingdon, in good condition and busy occupation, in which Oliver Cromwell stormed the English alphabet and carried the first parallel of monosyllables at the point of the pen.