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Murphy at length gasped out, "Pray, John, pray! Command the thing in the name of God to depart." Mr. Murphy made a desperate effort to do so, but not a syllable would come. The head now veered round and was moving swiftly towards them, its awful stench causing them both to retch and vomit. Mr. Murphy, seizing his stick, lashed at it with all his might.
Yes, yes; the river did you good: but water will drown, as well as make tears. Do you beware of Knights Barrownights!" Here Mother Doortje came to a dead stand in her communications, and not another syllable of any sort could either of us get from her; though, between us, as many as twenty questions were asked.
She pronounced the name slowly, syllable by syllable, as though English proper names were difficult to her. He laughed. "Whoever he may be. I am known as Kingozi hereabouts." "You are not Cul-bert-son?" "I am anything it pleases you to have me. And who are you?" She had become the spoiled darling, pouting at him in half-pretended vexation. "You are playing with me.
Bounce stopped his own talk at this point by stuffing his mouth so full of meat that no word, not even a word of one syllable, could have forced itself out, had it tried ever so much. A long silence now ensued, during which the clack of seven pairs of active jaws was the only sound that broke upon the ear.
He told me to be truthful, to keep my temper, to be upright and manly, to say my prayers; he pressed me never to get into debt, never to drink, and never to use bad language; and he told me I ought to change my boots and clothes when wet, so as not to get ill; and yet he has not said one syllable about this.
The day deserves the best we can say of it." "Her voice," thought John, availing himself of a phrase that had struck him in a book he had lately read, "her voice is like ivory and white velvet." And the touch, never so light, of a foreign accent with which she spoke, rendered her English piquant and pretty, gave to each syllable a crisp little clean-cut outline.
And it was impossible to make her contradict herself; the particulars she gave invariably agreed with her original narrative, and, indeed, she always seemed to repeat the same words, with the same inflections of the voice. "I had her in hand during the whole of one afternoon," continued Doctor Chassaigne, "and there was not the variation of a syllable in her story. It was disconcerting.
Hoping I must confess to the selfishness that she might not favour him, I set myself to find out. At last I was by accident present at a meeting between them in the open air, looking on leaning behind a fir-tree without their knowing of it. It was a moving meeting for all the three parties concerned. I knew every syllable that passed between them as well as they did.
Suppleton, the ship's steward, with the two extra officers who had been sent on board. "Do you speak French, gentlemen?" asked the detective, addressing himself to the two officers. "Not a word of it," replied Mr. Gwyndale, one of them. "Not a syllable of it," added Mr. Tempers, the other. "Excuse me, gentlemen," said Mr. Gilfleur, as he retreated to his room. Mr.
The Chinese adopt a more clumsy expedient, supplying a different symbol for each of the meanings of a syllable; so that while the actual word-sounds of their speech are only a few hundreds in number, the characters of their written language mount high into the thousands.
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