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At last something good, the mellifluous and the true, began to trickle from his brain and pour in with the saliva of his mouth. "I'm here.
If that well-meaning woman had only abstained from her ill-timed interference, the swarm might have settled on my lips, and I should have been endowed with that mellifluous eloquence which, in this country, leads far more surely than worth, capacity, or honest work, to the highest places in Church and State.
He was a tall man, clad in a dark overcoat bordered with fur; he looked like a wealthy Englishman or American travelling for pleasure. His features were fine and commanding; his eyes gleamed with a gentle disdain as he coolly met my resentful gaze. When he spoke his voice was rich and mellifluous, though his accents had a touch in them of grave scorn. "'So you are tired of your life, young man!
Then there were words which were beautiful to hear, which had a rich sound words like "mellifluous" and "brocade" and "Cleopatra." But "Cosmos" was an absolutely fascinating word perfectly round, without beginning or end. And it was the kind to delight in not only for its wealth, so to speak, for all it held and hinted, but also for itself alone; it was a word of sheer beauty.
For her voice, instead of being hard and dry, as when he heard it before, was, without any loss of elasticity, now liquid and mellifluous, and full of feeling. Its tones were borne along like the leaves on the wild west wind of Shelley's sonnet. And the longing of the curate to help her from that moment took a fresh departure, and grew and grew.
The tulip-tree, so called obviously because of the shape of its flowers, has a most mellifluous and pleasing botanical name, Liriodendron Tulipifera is not that euphonious? Just plain "liriodendron" how much better that sounds as a designation for one of the noblest of American forest trees than the misleading "common" names!
His hearers, who knew more French than Gascon, detected in his poems many comparatively unknown words, not indeed of his own creation, but merely the result of his patient and long-continued investigation of the Gascon dialect. Yet they found the language, as written and spoken by him, full of harmony rich, mellifluous, and sonorous.
My whole body has been like that for two days. It's absurd enough in such weather!" "It doesn't surprise me," growled the Irishman in a surly, short tone, very unusual in that mellifluous voice.
He does not grapple with the hard problems of life; and his mellifluous murmurings of delicious fantasies have no place in the poignant griefs and keen regrets of those who have passed the meridian of earthly hopes, and who see the shadows of the long night closing in. And David Helmsley realised this all suddenly, with something of a pang.
Finally Cheever got to him with a sledge-hammer smash in the groin. It hurled Dyckman against and along the big table, just as he put home one magnificent, majestic, mellifluous swinge with all his body in it. It planted an earthquake under Cheever's ear. Dyckman saw him go backward across a chair and spinning over it and with it and under it to the floor.
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