Example Sentences
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“Poetry’s trash, mere clouds of words, comfort to the hopeless. But this is no cloud, no syllabled phantom that stands here shaking its sword at you.”
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
He had borne up bravely—almost to the last—but had some tongue syllabled his son's doom in the solitude, and at that instant had insanity smitten him?
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
A gentleman met me at the door, and my parched lips syllabled the name of Alice.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various
It was thus with the Reader when he syllabled, with watering lips, guess after guess at the half-opened basket.
From Charles Dickens as a Reader by Kent, Charles Foster
He, even He, with his unspoken voice, awfuler than any Sinai thunders or syllabled speech of Whirlwinds; for the Silence of deep Eternities, of Worlds from beyond the morning-stars, does it not speak to thee?
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas
