SYLLABLE

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syllable I. substantiv

1. silabă.

2. (fig.) sunet;

he never uttered a syllable n-a scos un sunet, n-a scos o vorbă.

syllable II. verb tranzitiv

a silabisi; a articula în mod distinct.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Yet not a syllable has been said to you on the subject, by either of them.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

It was known that they were a little acquainted; but not a syllable of real information could Emma procure as to what he truly was.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Agnes, my dear, as long as I believed it had been really made away with by your father, I wouldn't—and, my dear, I didn't, even to Trot, as he knows—breathe a syllable of its having been placed here for investment.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He just looked in at the doors I opened; and when he had wandered upstairs and downstairs, he said I must have gone through a great deal of fatigue and trouble to have effected such considerable changes in so short a time: but not a syllable did he utter indicating pleasure in the improved aspect of his abode.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

And on developing, from amidst all her perplexity of words in reply, the meaning, which one short syllable would have given, immediately expressed his intention of paying his respects to them, and, with a rising colour, asked her if she would have the goodness to show him the way.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Good sense, like hers, will always act when really called upon; and she found that she had been able to name him to her mother, and recall her remembrance of the name, as that of William's friend, though she could not previously have believed herself capable of uttering a syllable at such a moment.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

He did so, and they talked together for some time in their own language, whereof I understood not a syllable, neither could I observe by their countenances, what impression my discourse had made on them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Not a syllable was uttered by either; and Elizabeth was on the point of going away again, when Bingley, who as well as the other had sat down, suddenly rose, and whispering a few words to her sister, ran out of the room.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

She was not a woman of many words; for, unlike people in general, she proportioned them to the number of her ideas; and of the few syllables that did escape her, not one fell to the share of Miss Dashwood, whom she eyed with the spirited determination of disliking her at all events.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

I really was persuaded of Mrs. Weston's having mentioned it in one of her letters to Enscombe, many weeks ago, with all these particulars—but as she declares she never heard a syllable of it before, of course it must have been a dream.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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