"Inflexion" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that the delivery of their dialogue resembled the modern recitative. For such a conjecture there is no other foundation than the fact that the Greek, like almost all southern languages, was pronounced with a greater musical inflexion than ours of the North. In other respects their tragic declamation must, I conceive, have been altogether unlike recitative, being both much more measured, and also far removed from its studied ...
— Lectures on Dramatic Art - and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel trans John Black
... remember his tones as, turning to the dissenters who usually supported him, and pointing over the table to his opponents, he uttered that well-worn quotation, Quod minime reris,—then he paused, and began again; Quod minime reris,—Graia pandetur ab urbe. The power and inflexion of his voice at the word Graia were certainly very wonderful. He ended by moving an amendment to the Address, and asking for support equally from one side of the House as ...
— Phineas Redux • Anthony Trollope
... strong declension, when used as a numeral. The dat. {einme} is generally contracted to {eime} (Sec. 9, 3). When {ein} is used in the sense of alone, it follows the weak declension. On the inflexion of {ander}, second, see Sec. 55. {Zwei} and {dr[i]} ...
— A Middle High German Primer - Third Edition • Joseph Wright
... A quotation from the Iliad, 40, iii.; where Hector is venting his rage on Paris. The inflexion is slightly changed, the line in the original commencing, "Aith' opheles, etc., would thou ...
— The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Complete - To Which Are Added, His Lives Of The Grammarians, Rhetoricians, And Poets • C. Suetonius Tranquillus
... which is nearer the border of the Mare, commences a cleft which, following the curvature of the coast- line, terminates at a point in W. long. 9 deg. This object varies considerably in width and depth. Another shorter and coarser cleft runs S. of this across an irregularly shaped bay or inflexion in the border ...
— The Moon - A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features • Thomas Gwyn Elger
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