"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
... the same rising inflexion on the last word, suggestive of a shriek of horror, that Miriam had noticed in the station. In her white peignoir, her golden hair streaming over her shoulders, and her hands flung wide apart with ...
— The Wild Olive • Basil King
... "doggerel ornamentation") may be seen in rich profusion; and they are necessarily the only kind of lines which can be felt or enjoyed by persons who have been educated without reference to natural forms; their instincts being blunt, and their eyes actually incapable of perceiving the inflexion of noble curves. But the moment the perceptions have been refined by reference to natural form, the eye requires perpetual variation and transgression of the formal law. Take the simplest possible condition of thirteenth-century scroll-work, ...
— Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) • John Ruskin
... partie des montagnes calcaires etoit encore recouvert de sable et de gres vitrescibles: et continuant a marcher, sans aucune inflexion sensible, nous nous trouvames subitement sur les schistes; d'ou nous montames plus rapidement. Puis traversant quelques petites vallees nous arrivames sur les montagnes qui appartiennent au prolongement ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) • James Hutton
... sky," used to express a state of prosperity. He does not mean, by the phrase, the serenity of mind which prosperity produces, nor any other abstract inflexion or suggestion of the figure. He is constantly exposed to the storms of heaven, in the chase, and on the war path; and, even in his best "lodge," he finds but little shelter from their fury. Clear weather is, therefore, grateful ...
— Western Characters - or Types of Border Life in the Western States • J. L. McConnel
... hard and headstrong?" asked she, with as indifferent a tone as she could assume, but which yet had a touch of pique in it. His quick ear detected the inflexion. ...
— Half a Life-Time Ago • Elizabeth Gaskell
... precision which to a more experienced observer would have indicated the possession of a maid of no ordinary qualities. Her mouth became more and more delightful every time he studied it; her voice, even her method of speech, were entirely natural and with a peculiarly fascinating inflexion. At times she looked and spoke with the light-hearted gaiety of a child; then again there was the grave and cultured woman apparent in her well-balanced and thoughtful criticisms. When, at the end of the meal, she rose to leave the table, he found himself surprised at her ...
— The Cinema Murder • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... perfect example of the "Yankee female"—the figure which, in the unregenerate imagination of the children of the cotton-States, was produced by the New England school-system, the Puritan code, the ungenial climate, the absence of chivalry. Spare, dry, hard, without a curve, an inflexion or a grace, she seemed to ask no odds in the battle of life and to be prepared to give none. But Ransom could see that she was not an enthusiast, and after his contact with his cousin's enthusiasm this was rather a relief to him. She looked like a boy, and not even like a good boy. ...
— The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) • Henry James
... he said in a soft musical voice. He gave the words a most curious accent and inflexion, yet they were ...
— The Girl in the Golden Atom • Raymond King Cummings
... him ridiculous. He knew pretentiousness for the mask of worthlessness and weakness. And here he beheld pretentiousness incarnate. It was to be read in that arrogant poise of the head, that scowling brow, the inflexion of that reverberating voice. Even more difficult than it is for a man to be a hero to his valet—who has witnessed the dispersal of the parts that make up the imposing whole—is it for a man to be a hero to the student of Man who has witnessed ...
— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini
... embarked in the small boats. Two of them seemed to be fastened together, raft-like, on the starboard side of the yacht, and were quickly filled with men. Prayers and curses were audible, with the loose, wild inflexion of the man who is in the clutch of an overmastering fear. As long as there had been work for them to do on the ship, they had done it, though sullenly; they had even controlled themselves until the attempt was made to place the two women in safety. But after that their self-restraint vanished. ...
— The Stolen Singer • Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger
... the symmetry of the two opening similes, making the eagle the subject of the sentence in the first, the kid in the second, an awkwardness which the Latin is able to avoid by its power of distinguishing cases by inflexion. I trust, however, that it will ...
— Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace • Horace |
