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... called for speakers in the conduct of their campaigns . In response , thou- sands of people , young and old , " found their voice , " and with it an opportunity to do their bit in helping to win the war . These people , with widely ...
... called for speakers in the conduct of their campaigns . In response , thou- sands of people , young and old , " found their voice , " and with it an opportunity to do their bit in helping to win the war . These people , with widely ...
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... called for speakers in the conduct of their campaigns . In response , thou- sands of people , young and old , " found their voice , " and with it an opportunity to do their bit in helping to win the war . These people , with widely ...
... called for speakers in the conduct of their campaigns . In response , thou- sands of people , young and old , " found their voice , " and with it an opportunity to do their bit in helping to win the war . These people , with widely ...
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... called to the fact that this short u sound is approximately the one used for the so - called neutral vowel sound in unstressed syllables , such as the a in amount , extra , the e in father , linger , the second i in agility , sir , the ...
... called to the fact that this short u sound is approximately the one used for the so - called neutral vowel sound in unstressed syllables , such as the a in amount , extra , the e in father , linger , the second i in agility , sir , the ...
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... called the Quip Modest . If again " it was not well cut , " he disabled my judgment : this is called the Reply Churlish . If again " it was not well cut , " he would answer , I spake not true : this is called the Reproof Valiant . If ...
... called the Quip Modest . If again " it was not well cut , " he disabled my judgment : this is called the Reply Churlish . If again " it was not well cut , " he would answer , I spake not true : this is called the Reproof Valiant . If ...
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... called ex- plosives , because the breath bursts suddenly through the obstruction . When the barriers are only partial , as in the case of f , v , l , r , etc. , the sounds are called continu- ants , because they may be prolonged ...
... called ex- plosives , because the breath bursts suddenly through the obstruction . When the barriers are only partial , as in the case of f , v , l , r , etc. , the sounds are called continu- ants , because they may be prolonged ...
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Common terms and phrases
articulation breath current Cæsar called cavities CHAPTER chest Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Children's Crusade clear common consonant cried dead diaphragm DICKENS digraph diphthong drawbridge energetic error EXERCISES expression eyes father fault feel force glottis Godfrey Cass habit hand hard palate hear heart honorable inflection inhalation letter Lilian lips living look Lord lower lung Lycidas mind mouth muscles nasal passages night normal quality organs orotund pause pharynx pitch Pompey position principles produce pronunciation raised range Repeat resonance resonance cavities rising Scrooge SELECTIONS FOR PRACTICAL sentence SHAKESPEARE Silas Marner silent soft palate sometimes sonants soul sound is represented speaker speaking speech stress student syllable teeth are placed tell TENNYSON thee There's thou thought throat tion tone tongue utterance vocal vocal bands vocalized breath voice voice-box vowel vowel sounds Warren Hastings whisper wind words
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Page 254 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.
Page 51 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music, too, While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue...
Page 154 - We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Page 187 - Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villainous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 263 - We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter's cold as well as he...
Page 100 - Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre ! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget - lest we forget...
Page 101 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth,' still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their...
Page 103 - My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will...
Page 204 - Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.
Page 255 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...