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The truth is, nisnas means a monkey, and, like most of Seetzen's "Nuri" words, is inflected with an a final, as if one should say "monkeyo."
"You actually mean that?" she asked, gliding into another posture, even more alluring. "You know I mean it," he declared. "Haven't we agreed to be honest with each other?" "I've been honest!" she answered. "Meaning that I've not been?" "Have you?" she inflected, "I wonder, Guy." She might just as well have asked direct his feeling for Mrs. Clephane and he understood perfectly the question.
Correspondingly, the next in the series of Turner drawings, the "Aysgarth Force," shows no attempt to give the real color of Nature, but a single color governing the whole drawing, a golden brown passing in shadow into its exact negative. There is an absolute tint, full, and inflected through every shade of its tones to the bottom of the scale.
We need not go into the history of this all-important drift. It is enough to know that as the inflected forms of English became scantier, as the syntactic relations were more and more inadequately expressed by the forms of the words themselves, position in the sentence gradually took over functions originally foreign to it.
The hoof and vascular tissue in turn enclose the elastic apparatus and bony core. It is covered by a thin layer of horny tissue, the peripole, that coats over the wall and assists in preventing its drying out. On lifting the foot and examining its inferior surface, it is noticed that the wall at the heels is inflected under the foot and in a forward direction.
"I noticed you were annoyed." "Yet, I was more disappointed." "Yes?" I inflected. "To have my ideal Captain Smith shattered so completely." "But when you learned it was your cousin?" "That saved the ideal." "But I cannot live up to the Captain." She shook her head. "There is no need. The Captain is dead. It is my cousin Armand now." "But every woman has her ideal," I ventured.
"So you came to have tea," she repeated at the close, in her quaintly inflected, foreign-sounding English. "And you stay because of the plague? So?" "But I wrote I wrote to my friends and " "And gave him the letters!" "But I had a letter from my friends or a telegram rather." Arlee knitted her brows in furious thought. "And it sounded like her."
"Do you anticipate the finishing stroke to the present affair?" "In due time." "Due time?" she inflected. "Whatever is necessary in the premises," he explained. "It hasn't then gotten beyond the premises?" "No, it hasn't gotten beyond the premises," he replied with an inward chuckle. There was no occasion to explain that, by the latter premises, he meant herself.
The fortunate chance that took them to the Inglaterra Hotel the disdain of its runner was more persuasive than the clamor of all the others who had boarded the steamer found them a room, they soon discovered, in what was at once the most desirable and the most unlikely place. They might have the chamber until Tuesday, Lee was told, in an English inflected with the tonal gravity of Spain.
Prepositions are joined to substantives, and pronouns to verbs, but never so as to make a new form of the original word, as in the inflected languages, and words thus placed in juxtaposition retain their personal identity unimpaired.
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