"Circumflex" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cafe, Cafe, cafes, debris, decedee (x3), epouse (1st e), Felicite (x2); accent grave: mere, Mere, a (also a in bric-a-brac), negre, Sevres; accent aigu and accent grave: Helene, etagere; accent grave (e) and circumflex (a): age; circumflex: l'age, bete (1st e), crepe-myrtle, crepe-myrtles (1st e); ae-ligature: aegis, anaesthesia; o-umlaut: Hoelle, Goettingen; ...
— Shapes that Haunt the Dusk • Various
... could not be represented in the latin-1 character set are shown as: [oe] oe ligature [e,] "e caudata": equivalent to ae or ae [u] [e] vowel with circumflex (also a and o) following ...
— A Treatise of Witchcraft • Alexander Roberts
... circumflex accent properly indicates a rise and fall of voice-pitch on a vowel-sound such as almost makes a disyllable of a monosyllable (e.g. in Milton's verse the word power may fill either one or two places in the line) I will ...
— Society for Pure English, Tract 2, on English Homophones • Robert Bridges
... of these slides, the upward and the downward. The upward is called the rising inflection, and the downward the falling inflection, and when these are combined it is known as the circumflex. ...
— The Canadian Elocutionist • Anna Kelsey Howard
... falling slides combined form the circumflex, or wave, which is a very impressive and significant modification of the voice. It is chiefly used in sarcasm, raillery, irony, wit, and humor. It well deserves careful study ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick
... these marks is: Macron (straight line over letter) [x] Umlaut (2 dots over letter) [:x] Grave accent ['x] Acute accent ['x] Circumflex [^x] Breve (u-shaped symbol over letter) [)x] Cedilla ...
— "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries • Caius Julius Caesar
... writing. He comes towards me on all fours through the straw and lifts his intelligent face to me, with its reddish forelock and the little quick eyes over which circumflex accents fold and unfold them-selves. His mouth is twisting in all directions, by reason of a tablet of chocolate that he crunches and chews, while he holds the moist stump of it in ...
— Under Fire - The Story of a Squad • Henri Barbusse
... astute, You have placed the mark acute O'er omega. Take your specs. See? It should be circumflex. Still I love you, even though You have ...
— Cobwebs from a Library Corner • John Kendrick Bangs
... words are used with a double meaning, as in the case of a pun, or with a peculiar implication, or are repeated for some peculiar effect of mere repetition,—when we have, in any form, what is called a play upon words,—a peculiar pointedness is given, wherein the circumflex inflection plays a large part. "Now is it Rome indeed and room enough, when there is in it but one only man." "I had rather bear with you than bear you; yet if I did bear you, I should bear no cross, for I think you have no money in your purse." "But, sir, the ...
— Public Speaking • Irvah Lester Winter
... aware it was in common use as a contraction for Barnstaple. I think it will be found that the contracted form of that name is more usually "Berdest," "Barnst". In trying further to contract the word, the two last letters would be omitted, and it would then be "Barn", with the circumflex showing the omission of several letters. Having reduced it to this state, an illiterate clerk would easily misread the circumflex for the plain stroke "-," expressing merely the omission of the letter "m", and, perhaps ignorant of the name intended, think it as well to write at ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 42, Saturday, August 17, 1850 • Various
... two, the first of which had an acute and the second a grave; hence only on the last, or next to the last syllable, and only on a long vowel or a diphthong. When the last syllable has a short vowel, such a penult, if accented, takes the circumflex. ...
— Greek in a Nutshell • James Strong |
