syllabling
- present participle of syllable.
Example Sentences
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Oh, weary women, syllabling brokenly His precious promises, patient, untiring watcher, whose tired feet have grown weary of the 'burden and heat of the day,' wait 'God's time!'
From Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland by Babcock, Retta
Instances of nouns and adjectives employed as verbs are: pennanc’d, luting, passion’d, neighbour’d, syllabling, companion’d, labrynth, anguish’d, poesied, vineyard’d, woof’d, loaned, medicin’d, zon’d, mesh, pleasure, legion’d, companion, green’d, gordian’d, character’d, finn’d, forest’d, tusk’d, monitor.
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette
Men heard Strange voices syllabling with accents strange, By travellers breathed who, startled, paused and feared Seeing the smoke of habitations curled Above this hollow of an unrumoured world.
From Poems New and Old by Freeman, John
Their tongues join together in syllabling the sharp-cut words, which for ever slice asunder time and the broad-backed moors.
From Jacob's Room by Woolf, Virginia
She added reasons in whose syllabling Napier heard Julian's voice.
From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth
