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.

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

He dropped leaden monosyllables into the cheery flow of her conversation, and after breakfast put in his time at the woodshed.

But ae word explains a'GeniusGenius, wull a' the metafhizzians in the warld ever expound that mysterious monosyllable.

In this passage [I bracket Gloster] we find no fewer than forty-two monosyllables following each other consecutively.

The proprietor, his fat, oily face in his hands and his elbows on the bar, grunted monosyllables, occasionally nodding as the Americano forced his acknowledgment of a highly obvious platitude.

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

What was said had little or no significancea man's tolerant, sometimes laughing monosyllables; and silly, cuddling, unquotable nothings from his companion.

I had a thing to say,But let it go:' forty monosyllables.

It has been said that the Indian languages possess no monosyllables.

Churchill, who makes no such distinction, thinks accent essential alike to emphasis and to the quantity of a long vowel, and yet, as regards monosyllables, dependent on them both!

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.

There she sat, stock-still, dumb, staring first at my bonnet, then at my shawl, then at my gown, then at my feet; up and down, down and up, she scanned me, barely replying in monosyllables to my attempts at conversation; finally getting up, and coming nearer, and examining my clothes, and

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

there's the rub,' through an electric wire; but, scorning monosyllables, the electric articulation rose to higher flights, and gave me passages from the New York newspapers.

"Dr. Caustic," or T. G. Fessenden, in his satirical "Directions for Doing Poetry," uses in this manner the monosyllables, "Whew," "Say," and "Dress" and also the iambs, "The gay" and, "All such," rhyming them with something less isolated. OBS.

Now, we have banished even the monosyllable To!

Such harmless industry may, surely, be forgiven, if it cannot be praised: may he, therefore, never want a monosyllable, who can use it with such wonderful dexterity.

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.