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Her hair was parted with conscientious exactness, and upon her whole appearance there sat the picture of conscious piety. "Oh, I can't stand her!" whispered Adèle in an ecstasy of dislike. "I should fly if I had to look at her long! Sister Saint Serena the Salubrious!" Winifred choked down a laugh at Adèle's suddenly inspired alliteration, while Hubert looked a dignified reproach.
So, again, was Tennyson untiring in seeking to attain ultimate perfection of phrase, consciously employing every artifice of alliteration, assonance and rime.
"But I said men of brawn and brains, you remember." "And bounce, to perfect the alliteration," murmured "Lily." "Yes, bounce, too," said Martin; "at least, he must never take back-water; he must be ready to attempt anything, even the impossible." "That's the splendid thing about it!" cried Miss Brodie. "You're entirely on your own and you never say die!"
The second class, of greater antiquity than the first, at least on the ground of subject, is also distinguished by a much more mythological character, a bolder use of the miraculous, an enigmatical form, a style full of alliteration and plays upon words.
"Skinner! In the fiend's name, spare us this alliteration and humbug," Cappy fairly shrieked. "You're driving me crazy. If it isn't platitude, it's your dog-gone habit of initialing things!" He placed his old elbows on his knees and bowed his head in his hands. "If I'm not the original Mr. Tight Wad!" he lamented. "But you must forgive me, Matt.
The alliteration is sometimes obscured by elisions and contractions, but never quite disappears. Mr.
In collocation, however, and quite apart from rhythm and alliteration, this minute expressiveness may add up to a considerable amount. In Matthew Arnold's lines, Swept by confused alarms of struggle and flight Where ignorant armies crash by night,
Humor that does not meet this requirement is not likely, when its novelty has worn off, to be read even occasionally save by those who enjoy it as an intellectual performance or who are making a critical study of its author. The observation, if not profound, is at least sensible, and it illustrates very well the Bibliotaph's love of alliteration and antithesis.
His celebrated death song is said to have been composed during his torments. The best of the scaldic lays, however, are greatly inferior to the Eddaic poems. Alliteration is the chief characteristic of the versification. The word Saga means literally a tale or narrative, and is used in Iceland to denote every species of tradition, whether fabulous or true.
"Nobody will dispute that point with you. You never leave us any worth speaking about. McIlray says you have eaten all the cherries, and that he can't even give us a decent dish for dinner." "What vile alliteration," says Mr. Browne, unabashed. "Decent, dish, dinner. You ought to be ashamed of yourself." "Well, I'm not," says Dulce. "Just shows your moral depravity. If you aren't you ought to be.
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