syllables I had never heard
95 791 swim, swom, or swum
95 792 swam over
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95 842 to syllable
95 843 syllable
95 844 he does not know a) syllable of the matter
95 850 syllogistical
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95 856 symbolical
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95 896 it is a bad system
95 897 it is a good system
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96 1 systematical
ex Classes 95 and 96, John Macdonald, A Naval, Military and Political Telegraphic Dictionary, Numerically Arranged on a Very Comprehensive Scale. (Whitehall, 1817)
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Her words seemed to be too precise, rather cutting in their unfailing distinctness... Nancy put into many words syllables I had never heard sounded in them before.
ex Willa Cather, Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940)
January 2014
tags: Willa Cather; John Macdonald; almost a song; syllables; systematicals