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Billy frowned, for he held Mary's name as too sacred to be breathed by a young man of Henry Lincoln's character; while George replied, "Her name is Mary Howard." "What, the pauper?" asked Henry, looking significantly at Billy, who replied, "The same, sir." "Whew-ew," whistled Henry, prolonging the diphthong to an unusual length.
For tense of misimus, 'I send' see A. 282; G. 244, H. 472, 1. OMNEM: see n. on 62. TRIBUIMUS: perfect tense like misimus. TITHONO ... ARISTO: see Introd. Cicero generally denotes the Greek diphthong ει by i not e. This Aristo was a Peripatetic. PARUM ... AUCTORITATIS: observe how often Cicero takes trouble to separate words which are, grammatically, closely connected.
It followed from a determination to get at the real fact of who and what Jesus Christ is; and the two words, that differed by a diphthong, embodied diametrically opposite conceptions of him. With all the super-subtlety that sometimes characterizes theologians, these men had a passion for truth.
Perhaps he owed this freedom from the sort of professional make-up which penetrates skin, tones and gestures and defies all drapery, to the fact that he had once been Captain Gaskin, having taken orders and a diphthong but shortly before his engagement to Miss Armyn.
The latter were sounded the Italian way, as in the words arm, egg, ink, oak, and Peru. It was a great pleasure to them to be told that now they could read. They were encouraged to copy the words out of the book upon their slates. Nor has it any diphthong or combinations of letters, such as oi, ou, ch, sh, th.
The Greek word, which was chosen to express this mysterious resemblance, bears so close an affinity to the orthodox symbol, that the profane of every age have derided the furious contests which the difference of a single diphthong excited between the Homoousians and the Homoiousians.
It would seem that hypochondria was then spoken, as hypocrisy still is, with the correct and pleasant short vowels of the Greek prefix, not as now with a long alien diphthong haipo-. It was presumably this short y that accidentally killed hyppish; for the word hipped was used of a horse lamed in the hip, and alongside of this hipped, and maybe attracted by it, an adjective hypt arose.
Hearing that through the blunder of an illiterate undertaker the motto on Kenyon's hatchment in Lincoln's Inn Fields had been painted 'Mors Janua Vita, instead of 'Mors Janua Vitæ, he exclaimed, "Bless you, there's no mistake; Kenyon's will directed that it should be 'Vita, so that his estate might be saved the expense of a diphthong."
For, not to speak of the illusion which the sight of a Greek type, or the sound of a Greek diphthong, often produces, there are some peculiarities in the manner of Thucydides which in no small degree have tended to secure to him the reputation of profundity.
He could not reconcile this kind of diphthong living with his notions of piety. At least their sins lay heavily on his conscience. One Sabbath morning in June he entered the pulpit in a Sinai mood, determined to read the Church Rules and to apply them severely.
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