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

This, however, mamma will not hear of; and, indeed, the word Ireland is now as much under ban amongst us as that name that is never "syllabled to ears polite."

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James

Yea, hath my heart become for Love a lyre, And he hath syllabled thy name, and I Fill in each silence with a song; aspire To rival in my rapture Euterpe.

From His Lady of the Sonnets by Norwood, Robert W.

In that beautiful poem, the verse is fixed at four beats or accents, but is free syllabled, having six, seven, ten, twelve, or fourteen.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various

Men had not a hammer to begin with, not a syllabled articulation: they had it all to make;—and they have made it.

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas