How To Use Dissyllable In A Sentence
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Down by the green meadows of Sudbury there dwelt a bewitchingly fair maiden, the musical dissyllables of whose name were often upon the lips of the young men in all the country round about, and whose smile could awaken voiceless poetry in the heart of the most prosaic Puritan swain.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885
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A dissyllable or trisyllable precedes the caesura.
The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints
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It consists of a series of dissyllables, low at first with a pause after each, but gradually growing in intensity and succeeding one another at shorter intervals, until the bird seems to have got fairly into its stride, when it pulls up with dramatic suddenness.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India
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It is often said that the power of liquidness and fluidity in Chaucer's verse was dependent upon a free, a licentious dealing with language, such as is now impossible; upon a liberty, such as Burns too enjoyed, of making words like _neck, bird_, into a dissyllable by adding to them, and words like _cause, rhyme_, into a dissyllable by sounding the _e_ mute.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
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Note that this is exponentially worse than the Manning Henkel problem, since there are not two but four dissyllables to conjure with.
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This hapless dissyllable my uncle carried in person to the herald office in Scotland; but neither Lyon, nor Marchmont, nor Islay, nor Snadoun, neither herald nor pursuivant, would patronise Scrogie. —
Saint Ronan's Well
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This hapless dissyllable my uncle carried in person to the herald office in Scotland; but neither Lyon, nor Marchmont, nor Islay, nor Snadoun, neither herald nor pursuivant, would patronise Scrogie. —
Saint Ronan's Well
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I believe that all English words beginning with a, in which a syllable beginning with h follows, are dissyllables.
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 6. Colonial Pronunciation
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The icy-hearted Scandinavian, whose austere cooking and sardonic manner of waiting on table had so depressed Gloria, gave way to an exceedingly efficient Japanese whose name was Tanalahaka, but who confessed that he heeded any summons which included the dissyllable
The Beautiful and Damned
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A poet, of all men, should cherish the liquid consonants, and should resist the tendency of the populace to make trochees of all dissyllables.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864
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There is little we can see to distinguish them from prose except a strong tendency, as in the Teutonic languages, toward alliteration, and a leaning toward dissyllables.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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B. however supports Rossetti, and in point of fact Shelley usually wrote lightenings, even where the word counts as a dissyllable (Locock).
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable, as just; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable, as just'ice; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable, as just'i-fy; a word of more than three syllables, a polysyllable, as just-ca'tion.
The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronuncia
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Melancholy dissyllable of sound! which, to his ears, was unison to Nincompoop, and every name vituperative under heaven. —
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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Thus, if the first line end with an accented monosyllable, the second line will end with a dissyllabic word accented on its first syllable, or if the first line end with a dissyllable accented on its penultimate the second line will end with a trisyllable accented on its ante-penultimate.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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She looked at him closely; her ear attuned to his voice caught the slightest thickness in the dissyllable.
The Beautiful and Damned
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I must object notwithstanding to his saying that Heaven cannot be a dissyllable.
Letter 111
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Dissyllables ending in _y_; as, happy, lovely; and in _le_ after a mute; as, able, ample; and dissyllables accented on the last syllable; as, discreet, polite; easily admit of
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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It closes a couplet and rhimes to a complete dissyllable in one of the most finishd productions of one of our most correct poets in the mechanism of versification.
Letter 111
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Monosyllables, dissyllables, and trisyllables had each their distinct time.
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai
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Were they newly-discovered planets, nicknamed whilst awaiting baptism, or strange fossils, contemporaries of the Megatherium, or Magyar dissyllables from Dr Bowring's vocabulary?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
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_Monosyllables_ are generally compared by adding _er_ and _est; dissyllables, trisyllables_, &c. by _more_ and _most_; as, mild, milder, mildest; frugal, more frugal, most frugal; virtuous, more virtuous, most virtuous.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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The dissyllable termination, which the critick rightly appropriates to the drama, is to be found, though, I think, not in Gorboduc which is confessedly before our authour; yet in Hieronnymo, of which the date is not certain, but which there is reason to believe at least as old as his earliest plays.
Preface to Shakespeare
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To be consistent, a tutor should take the same proleptical course with regard to the prosody of the Latin language: every Latin hyperdissyllable is manifestly accentuated according to the following law: if the penultimate be long, that syllable inevitably claims the accent; if short, inevitably it rejects it -- _i.e. _ gives it to the ante-penultimate.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
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Melancholy dissyllable of sound! which, to his ears, was unison to Nincompoop, and every name vituperative under heaven. —
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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What proportion of Macaulay's words in Paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 are monosyllables and dissyllables?
Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School
