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And at six o'clock that evening a young woman with a softly inflected voice and an air of almost humorous enjoyment of something the landlady failed to grasp, was the tenant, for one month's rent in advance, of a room on South Perry Street. Clare was almost in tears. "I can't bear to think of your sleeping in that bed, Mrs. Valentine," she protested. "It dips down so."
Strong, He subdued His strength in the day of battle, and bore Himself like iron. Yet He was so gentle that His white hand felt the fall of the rose leaf, while He inflected His gianthood to the needs of the little child. Nor could He be holden of the bands of death, for He clove a pathway through the grave, and made death's night to shine like the day. "I have but one passion," said Tholuck.
This precocious little rascal, named Felippo, was the best interpreter that could be found, which is saying little, for his Spanish was bad and mainly picked up in the camps from the rude soldiery, and his Peruvian was only an uncouth dialect of the highly inflected and most flexible and expressive Quichua, the language of the educated, indeed of the most of the people.
The noun is scarcely inflected at all; but the verb has a marvellous wealth of conjugations, calculated to express excellently well the external relations of ideas, but altogether incapable of expressing their metaphysical relations, from the want of definitely marked tenses and moods.
The Anglo-Saxons, a branch of the Teutonic race, made permanent settlements in England about the middle of the fifth century A.D. Like modern German, their language is highly inflected. The most flourishing period of Anglo-Saxon poetry was between 650 and 825 A.D. It was produced for the most part in the north of England, which was overrun by the Danes about 800.
Then he added: "I gave my brother David a hundred dollars for his share in the folderol about the premises, and took possession of the house and lands." "And after that," said my father, "what happened?" The hunchback uttered a queerly inflected expletive, like a bitter laugh. "After that," he answered, "we saw the real man in my brother David, as my father, old and dying, had so clearly seen it.
A certain code of honour obtained with nations, as well as with criminals. As he opened the door, the telephone rang. He took up the receiver. "Hello!" he said. "Is that you, Mr. Harleston?" came a soft voice. "It is Madame X!" he smiled. "Still Madame X?" she inflected. "Only to one person." "And to her no longer," she returned. "What are you doing?"
"And yet, Madeline, we may not defy the right and permit you to sacrifice yourself," he opposed. "There is a standard which neither cant nor pretence nor false modesty can affect the standard of honour." "Honour!" she inflected. "What is honour, such honour, when a woman loves." "Nothing and therefore must the love abide; honour can't abide once it is lost." She shook her head sadly.
The words, thus selected and disposed, are grammatically considered; they are referred to the different parts of speech; traced when they are irregularly inflected, through their various terminations; and illustrated by observations, not indeed of great or striking importance, separately considered, but necessary to the elucidation of our language, and hitherto neglected or forgotten by English grammarians.
That perpetual proof by perpetual inflection is the very condition of life. Symmetry is a profound, if disregarded because perpetually inflected, condition of human life. The nimble art of Japan is unessential; it may come and go, may settle or be fanned away. It has life and it is not without law; it has an obvious life, and a less obvious law.
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