"Accent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Martha, and Mary, had likewise been highly educated, that is to say, they had remained so many years at an English seminary for young ladies, and had been given a final twelve months in France and Germany to enable them to obtain "the correct accent." ...
— Scottish Ghost Stories • Elliott O'Donnell
... whimsies of paradox he presented an astonishing resemblance, in countenance, to the late Benjamin Disraeli, and maintained in speech the unmistakable accent of O'Connell, ...
— The Flaw in the Sapphire • Charles M. Snyder
... contrary, madame, just the contrary," said Ferrand, in an accent which redoubled the restrained ...
— The Mysteries of Paris V2 • Eugene Sue
... taken a paler hue. But he had soon recovered his haughtiness and self-control. Proudly he returned the angry glare of the countless eyes around him; and replying now to the question of the praetor, he said, in that accent so peculiarly tranquil and commanding which characterized ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 6 • Various
... opportunity of informing him that sailors have long made use of a compound which actually goes by the name of geograffy, which is only a trifling corruption of the name of the science, arising from their laying the accent on the penultimate. I will now give his lordship the receipt, which ...
— Newton Forster - The Merchant Service • Captain Frederick Marryat
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