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  • Sometimes, preoccupied with her work, she sang the refrain very low, very lingeringly; "A long time ago" came out like the saddest cadence of a funeral hymn.   (source)
    cadence = rhythm
  • some musical cadence   (source)
    cadence = rhythm (recurring pattern of sounds)
  • Their speech had a lilting cadence that made me think of singing more than speaking.†   (source)
  • Not in the Capitol accent, but in the rougher cadences of home.†   (source)
  • It was, he said in his strolling cadence, "kind of daring."†   (source)
  • Although he speaks softly in the unhurried cadence of the American West, his voice has an edge, and the set of his jaw betrays an undercurrent of nervous energy.†   (source)
  • "Do you speak English?" the husband asked in English, though with a decidedly Scandinavian cadence.†   (source)
  • My life assumed a predictable cadence: I'd go to school and come home and eat dinner.†   (source)
  • The melodic, swooping movement of her Jamaican patois was quickly replaced by the more stable cadences of American English.†   (source)
  • Laila marveled at her daughter's manner of speech, her cadence and rhythm, her thoughtful pauses and intonations, so adult, so at odds with the immature body that housed the voice.†   (source)
  • The cadence in her voice became more clipped, and the muscles in her face tightened.†   (source)
  • After my summer in the monument shop, I could appreciate what might have appealed to Owen Meany about the quiet of churches, the peace of prayer, the easy cadence of hymns and litanies—and even the simplistic, athletic ritual of practicing the shot.†   (source)
  • "I am a messenger of an ancient brotherhood," the voice announced in an alien cadence.†   (source)
  • "Papa Papa Papa Papa," Marie-Laure is saying, but her body seems to have detached itself from her voice, and her words make a faraway, desolate cadence.†   (source)
  • John's voice was low-pitched but very clear, and the words fell with a musical cadence that was a delight.†   (source)
  • I did not hear her words so much as the cadence of her voice.†   (source)
  • Bells rang and drums beat a stately cadence as they marched along the godsway.†   (source)
  • "Sybil tells me your little festival is an annual occurrence," she said, the cadence of her voice swooning like a lullaby.†   (source)
  • We remain in a connected cadence until the very last moment, when his eyes grow heavy.†   (source)
  • Muffled comedy voices floating from next door, articulated cadences of a television laugh track.†   (source)
  • What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad?†   (source)
  • "You will follow the cross all of your days," said Alpha, and his voice carried the cadence of litany.†   (source)
  • And the way be sometimes spoke, with unfamiliar cadences and phrases that better fit the style of a turn-of-the-century novel than that of a twenty-first-century classroom.†   (source)
  • Just outside music it lay, with a cadence not like theirs.†   (source)
  • ' She spoke slowly at first, almost groggily, but then her words began to catch up to normal cadence and to fill with normal conversational brightness.†   (source)
  • The breathing walls now follow the cadence of a heartbeat.†   (source)
  • At fifteen yards I feel the tightnessin my lungs, and I back off the cadence maybe a half-beat, swallowing to give my body the illusion of breathing.†   (source)
  • "Bella and Yetta and Jane," Harriet chants, her voice taking on the cadence of a five-year-old again.†   (source)
  • When the words became faint, the cadence itself was still discernible, a recurring sequence in the distance.†   (source)
  • Since these speeches were in part rehearsal for when, as the local Member of the Legislative Assembly, Comrade Pillai would address thronging millions, there was something odd about their pitch and cadence.†   (source)
  • I can tell from the cadence of his breathing that he's far from consciousness.†   (source)
  • I kept trying Amy's cell, and it kept going to voice mail, that quick-clip cadence swearing she'd phone right back.†   (source)
  • : Fremen chanting cadence used in time of deep ritual significance.†   (source)
  • The militants had their own pirate radio station, featuring a smooth-voiced announcer with a deep and unnervingly sexy voice, who spoke slowly and deliberately, and claimed in a decelerated but almost rap-like cadence that the fall of the city was imminent.†   (source)
  • My heart hit a faster cadence.†   (source)
  • His accent was more pronounced than Arya's: a lilting cadence that gave his words music.†   (source)
  • To a precise cadence they slapped chains over their shoulders, striking themselves upon their bare backs-first over the right shoulder, then the left.†   (source)
  • The unmistakable, clipped cadence of Martial voices carries down the tunnel.†   (source)
  • His face was resting on his hands and he breathed with the light, even cadence of deep sleep.†   (source)
  • At last she spoke again, so low in his ear that the words seemed barely more than broken cadences of breathing.†   (source)
  • First it was a hymn, all abrupt, odd, minor cadences and monotonous refrain.†   (source)
  • Ursula recognized in his affected way of speaking the languid cadence of the stuck-up people from the highlands.†   (source)
  • When your legs are chained together, you are forced to adopt a short, tippy-toe cadence.†   (source)
  • But that didn't necessarily matter, because before long, just by listening to the cadence of the transmission, the interceptors began to pick up on the individual fists of the German operators, and by doing so, they knew something nearly as important, which was who was doing the sending.†   (source)
  • Wearing the same green uniforms, we sang out in cadence, looking confident, but the tension in the air was thick.†   (source)
  • He pronounced "educate" with the guileless midwestern cadence with which he always flavored his favorite word.†   (source)
  • But beneath that twang, if you listen closely, you can hear the cadences of an older, refined speech pattern.†   (source)
  • The cadence is slow, and one foot falls ever so slightly heavier than the other.†   (source)
  • He drew me in close, and I felt the cadence of a heart pounding between us.†   (source)
  • She was a gifted narrator who knew exactly where to pause, how to measure her cadence, how to explain without too many gestures, painting a scene so true to life than her listener felt as if he were there.†   (source)
  • Their pace quickened, and he felt as though he were flying along with his feet off the ground as they trotted in resolute cadence up the wide marble staircase to the upper landing, where still two more inscrutable military policemen with hard faces were waiting to lead them all at an even faster pace down the long, cantilevered balcony overhanging the immense lobby.†   (source)
  • Bishop Long has launched into a rousing sermon, and as he speaks, his rolling cadences echo through the sanctuary, bringing the three hundred parishioners-a fine turnout on a rainy night-to their feet.†   (source)
  • "If Valentine knows you murdered me while I was tied up and helpless, he'll be disgusted with you," Jace said, and he heard his own voice drop into his father's cadences, the way Valentine spoke when he wanted something: soft and persuasive.†   (source)
  • The timing, cadence, rhythm— all memorized to near perfection.†   (source)
  • The director leaned back, arching his head over the chair; he spoke in a broken cadence.†   (source)
  • His words flowed then, cadenced as a poem.†   (source)
  • I think of Flaubert, who spent most of his adult life in the same French village, or Emily Dickinson, whose poems echoed the cadence of the local church bells.†   (source)
  • The cadenced rain was muffled here, like the drumming for a funeral cortege passing out on the highway.†   (source)
  • I clapped my hands—it was a silent cadence because of the crowd noise—took the snap, and hit the hole quickly, running as fast as I could.†   (source)
  • His grades suffered more or less in cadence with his nightmares and with troubling news from Burundi.†   (source)
  • Behind us, the marching band took their position on the field, drummers beating a solemn cadence.†   (source)
  • The president's cadence is quicker now, as he grows angrier and angrier.†   (source)
  • "We'll help you get out," says Dee in a singsong cadence.†   (source)
  • So, if it starts out speaking with a different cadence or rhythm or speech than you, then over time it matches yours, people love that.†   (source)
  • The march of the ants achieved a frantic cadence.†   (source)
  • But the more ominous sound of boots and hoofs-thousands upon thousands marching in cadence up the main street-made the meager defense sound like a children's sideshow.†   (source)
  • The air filled up with the rhythm of cadence.†   (source)
  • My blood settles into its normal cadence.†   (source)
  • In fact, I even appreciated its count, the clean cadence.†   (source)
  • Going down the hill made Alessandro and his father walk fast, and, listening to the cadence of their steps against the cobbles, they cut through the level parts of Trastevere almost at a run.†   (source)
  • The cadence of suffering has begun.†   (source)
  • When you're blowing on an Original Commander Call to attract a mallard hen, you can quicken and sharpen the cadence to replicate a young mallard hen, or slow down and draw out the cadence to get an old, raspy mallard hen.†   (source)
  • It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem's concerns or the poet's truthfulness.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, for a jingle of coin we can do you a selection of gory romances, full of fine cadence and corpses, pirated from the Italian; and it doesn't take much to make a jingle-even a single coin has music in it.†   (source)
  • The rocker began to move in slow cadence, and she moaned in this cadence for the dead, arms folded over her empty breasts as if holding a baby except that where the baby had been there was nothing.†   (source)
  • "Stingo, Stingo," the voice went on in lulling cadences, having reverted to the Brooklyn style.†   (source)
  • The cadence, whatever it is that asks you tobelieve, the feeling that resides in the printed word, reaches me through the reader-voice.†   (source)
  • The soft cadences of pilot-birds, the wolf-wail of soldiers; the croon of yellow-bellies and the sandpapery scour of scissor-grinders.†   (source)
  • So I diddent put any Price on, only told them what I am getting here, but what ever the wages are for a man like me down there I vould take…… " Franklin Roosevelt was inaugurated March 4, 1933, but his sonorous cadences designed to revive the national spirit failed to stir Oluf.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was in the cadence of his speech, and this had the effect of making men, and women too, tell him things they would not tell to relatives or close friends.†   (source)
  • And so now, like a man on the verge of embarking on some shrewd course of action for the good of all humanity, the Sunlight Man lay huddled in his bed, still in his clothes, his hands pressed between his thighs, his knees drawn nearly to his chin, trying to concentrate on sleep but racing all the while from scheme to scheme, from one dazzling trick to another, plotting grand gestures and cadences, concocting metaphors and puzzling allusions, a splendid, unheard-of entertainment.†   (source)
  • It was in his father's anger, and in his mother's calm insistence, and in the vehement mockery of his aunt; it had rung, so oddly, in Roy's voice this afternoon, and when Elisha played the piano it was there; it was in the beat and jangle of Sister McCandless's tambourine, it was in the very cadence of her testimony, and invested that testimony with a matchless, unimpeachable authority.†   (source)
  • By now, I'd detected the nervous shrillness that crept into her cadence when she was worried but pretending not to be.   (source)
    cadence = rhythm or recurring pattern of sounds
  • It began to crack down the middle, as with an earthquake, and as Stendahl watched the magnificent sight he heard Pikes reading behind him in a low, cadenced voice: ". . . my brain reeled as I saw the mighty walls rushing asunder--there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand waters--and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the House of Usher."   (source)
    cadenced = rhythmic (having a recurring sound pattern)
  • Her arms, burned to butternut, moved sinuously among the dull platinum ripples, elbow appearing first, casting the forearm back with a cadence of falling water, then reaching out and down, stabbing a path ahead.   (source)
    cadence = rhythm or recurring pattern
  • Margo put her feet up on the dashboard and wiggled her toes to the cadence of her speaking.†   (source)
  • I began to detect a cadence, a measured beat.†   (source)
  • The doctor continued, the cadence of his words as soothing as a song.†   (source)
  • She had a low, burbly voice, and her colonial English accent gave her sentences a neighing cadence.†   (source)
  • I said it all in the cadence of a bedtime tale: soothing and familiar and repetitive.†   (source)
  • The Baron spoke in a coldly measured cadence: "This is your job, Mentat.†   (source)
  • She already has the righteous, eye-rolling cadence of a conspiracy crackpot.†   (source)
  • The shouts were in the cadence of a rehearsed foreign language.†   (source)
  • Not only that, but the sound was different, more guttural, the cadence off.†   (source)
  • The now-familiar cadence of her recitation rose and fell like a soft sigh of wind.†   (source)
  • Lieberman has left for the day," she said in a staccato cadence.†   (source)
  • Not a sound penetrates except for the ragged cadence of our breathing.†   (source)
  • Behind him, her belly rose and fell with a gentle, soothing cadence.†   (source)
  • I would lose myself in the cadence of the phrases.†   (source)
  • He had a marvelous voice for cadence, for the issuance of command.†   (source)
  • But the old woman's cadence reminds me of the Tribespeople anyway, and I'm pulled into the tale.†   (source)
  • The nonsensical, guttural noises had the cadence of an angry chant.†   (source)
  • They spoke little, and in a Belgian cadence Sophie found harsh and odd to the ear.†   (source)
  • Its cadence entered into our ears and our memories for good.†   (source)
  • Lee continued in a singsong cadence, "Before you hate those men you must know this.†   (source)
  • So, while the next swing of the hammer glanced off the nail's head, on the third the Count hit home; and by the second nail, he had recovered the rhythm of set, drive, and sink— that ancient cadence which is not to be found in quadrilles, or hexameters, or in Vronsky's saddlebags!†   (source)
  • It was pelting rain; in the ragged downpour he was a shadow in an overcoat, unrecognizable, but the cadence of his rap was distinct from the old days, when he would circle around to the patio at my dad's house and tap briskly for me to let him in.†   (source)
  • The honor guard, in white spats and white gloves, strode down the aisle in bridal cadence and smartly split to each side of the flag-draped casket, where Owen's medal—pinned to the flag—brightly reflected the beam of sunlight that shone through the hole the baseball had made in the stained-glass window of the chancel.†   (source)
  • When Payton Jordan first saw Louie again, he was reassured by his old friend's familiar impish grin and the springy cadence of his speech.†   (source)
  • I needed reassurance of some deeper justice, some cadence or rhythm that lurked beneath the heartache and chaos.†   (source)
  • As I trail off, I hear them making one another laugh—not the words exactly, but the cadence, the rising and falling pitches of banter.†   (source)
  • Five minutes!" my entire chalk of Airborne candidates yelled back at him in the military's famous call-and-response cadence.†   (source)
  • Sol Weintraub's voice was slow, careful in phrase and precise in wording, and before long the gentle cadence of his story blended with the soft rumble and slow pitchings of the windwagon's progress north.†   (source)
  • The Brown Berets, both men and women, in military-style tan, fatigue clothing, marched in cadence on Third Street.†   (source)
  • Through the rest of his niece's recitation, he sat staring meditatively down at the floor, his chin cupped in the palm of his hand, tapping his right foot in time with the meter and cadence of the poem.†   (source)
  • We heard horns blowing and thought it was a reaction to the radio announcement but they continued in a rapid and urgent cadence, conveying through the stormy night a sense of animal fear and warning.†   (source)
  • Luckily, when he was drunk, his footsteps slowed to a jarring and unmistakable cadence—Frankenstein steps, as I thought of them, deliberate and clumping, with absurdly long pauses between each footfall—and as soon as I realized it was only him thudding around out there in the dark and not some serial murderer or psychopath, I would drift back into a fretful doze.†   (source)
  • In his thoughtful, deliberate cadence, he said, "While you are in South Africa, admire the beauty and culture.†   (source)
  • Yueh stood, swaying, His lips moved with careful precision, and his voice came in oddly measured cadence: "You …. think …. you …. de …. feated …. me.†   (source)
  • "No," I said, though I did; and for a large part of the night I lay awake in the upper bunk, miserable and tossing as the room spun around me, and a couple of times starting up in heart-thudding surprise because it seemed that Xandra had walked in the room and was talking to me: the words indistinct, but the rough, stuttery cadence of her voice unmistakable.†   (source)
  • He had his mother's cadence, the delivery that indicated everything he said was something you'd want to hear.†   (source)
  • The way she spoke, the cadence and the tone, not the voice, brought back all the silent conversations, the voice in my head, my sister.†   (source)
  • Eragon did not know the words but found himself mouthing them along with the elves, swept along by the inexorable cadence.†   (source)
  • The cadence of his stride dropped.†   (source)
  • The relaxed position of the shoulders, the steady rhythm of his arms, the high-stepping cadence of the legs ….†   (source)
  • It came out slower than she was used to, but also smoother, the syllables rolling off his tongue in a pleasing, unrushed cadence.†   (source)
  • " 'I his would be the last and final resting place of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand," Lindsey Lee Wells said, her voice suddenly affected with a new cadence, that of the bored tour guide who long ago memorized her speech.†   (source)
  • The deadly cadence of black boots.†   (source)
  • At this moment, that heart was all he wanted to hear—it would be his drum, his cadence when he stepped into the arena.†   (source)
  • He can read the mood of a crowd and adjust the cadence and rhythm of his voice for maximum effect, coaxing whatever emotion or response is needed to hold the audience in the palm of his hand.†   (source)
  • "The thing is," he says, speaking with a slow, word-byword cadence, like a recitation, "I can work harder than other people.†   (source)
  • Flanking the procession were four drummers, two on each side, their snare drums snapping out the slow cadence of the death march, erratically out of sequence because of the unexpected rocks and the unseen flat grave markers in the darkness of the bordering grass.†   (source)
  • Small children, slim and quick, Jamaican cadence in some of the voices and a girl with mottled skin maybe Malaysian or South Indian, he was only guessing, who jumped the hopscotch boxes with a measured deftness, doing a midair whirl so economical her hair was barely ruffled—bronze skin that went darker and lighter, olive-drab beneath the eyes.†   (source)
  • I was nervous even calling the cadence, but once the ball was snapped, all the nervousness went away and—this may seem odd to say—it was just like I was playing football again.†   (source)
  • At San Diego, newly recruited marines were marching in the hot sun, and sounding off the cadence with a drill instructor marching by them, his ceremonial sword flashing on his shoulder.†   (source)
  • It rose and fell with a drunken cadence, pitching from note to note as if the man were about to begin shrieking with horror.†   (source)
  • Best of all were the rich, familiar smells of garlic and onion and the lilting cadence of Spanish spoken by the dark-eyed waiters, who reminded Sandi of her uncles.†   (source)
  • The sheen of her skin, the rhythm of her gait, and the cadence of her voice all became more pronounced.†   (source)
  • It imagined stirring speeches that knit the country together, then made sure that the words, when spoken, were uttered with exactly the right cadence, enunciation, and pitch.†   (source)
  • Returning through the house, Roran stopped by the dining room as he heard the cadence of Jeod's voice.†   (source)
  • "Johnnie—Johnnie—Johnnie Stoddard; the one woman out of all the world for me," he murmured, his deep voice dropping to a wooing cadence.†   (source)
  • To judge whether or not he's likely to get pocketed if he steers his horse to the rail, a jockey must be able to read the subtleties in the stances of horses and riders in front—the tautness in the reins, the height of the jockey over the saddle, the crispness and cadence of the stride—to gauge how much gas is left in the tank.†   (source)
  • No matter how heavy the weight of the world, he invests himself in a story, adjusting the tone and cadence of his voice and curling his lips into a smile as he weaves his tale, until the listener eventually leans in, desperate to hear more.†   (source)
  • They were the only ones who did not laugh at our uniforms on road trips, did not call cadence as we walked to the locker room, and did not blameus for every death in the Vietnam War.†   (source)
  • They are her unique perversions of words that are undoubtedly disturbing to hear, but she chants them in a cadence that's somehow lulling at the same time.†   (source)
  • By 1000 hours, sophomore corporals swollen with the joy of calling cadence for the first time expertly marched squads of freshmen to Durrell Hall for the ritual haircuts.†   (source)
  • Then we were lifted out of our chairs as if an indiscernible cadre had begun barking orders, and I found myself walking with the Corps, the entire Corps, moving without cadence and in silence, with an awesome, unspeakable purpose.†   (source)
  • I remember the battalions beginning to move out, the call of cadence, the shape of the dark chapel, the fecund smell of the Corps's trampled grass, the shadows of missiles and tanks, the flag illuminated high above second battalion, above the clock, the pavement, the sound of my footsteps on the pavement; but I do not remember the act of running.†   (source)
  • I would gladly have left R Company, walked over to where the General was standing, and beat out his dentures with the stock of my M—I, but the astonishing power of the group had seized me again, and I marched as one with the Corps, congruent with the multilimbed kinetics of the regiment, obedient to the cadence of drums as two thousand heels struck low-country dirt at the same time.†   (source)
  • Eugene seemed to hear the extending cadence of "The Stubborn Rocking Horse," a piece of his he always liked, and could play very well.†   (source)
  • GUIL: Full of fine cadence and corpses.†   (source)
  • In their millions the frog songs seemed to have a beat and a cadence, and perhaps it is the ears' function to do this just as it is the eyes' business to make stars twinkle.†   (source)
  • I was delighted to hear the voice: the Southern cadence, as rich and broad as the muddy rivers that flowed through the low-country South Carolina of Jack Brown's birth, tickled my ear like beloved banjo music long unheard.†   (source)
  • No, it was later, I realized, during one moment of what seemed now their unending conflict, that his voice had come down through the ceiling, booming, with the ponderous, measured cadence of booted footfalls, and cried out in a tone that might have been deemed a parody of existential anguish had it not possessed the resonances of complete, unfeigned terror: "Don't …. you …. see ….†   (source)
  • He had a rich deep voice, good both in song and in speech, and while he had no brogue there was a rise and a lilt and a cadence to his talk that made it sound sweet in the ears of the taciturn farmers from the valley bottom.†   (source)
  • Sophie stood waiting while Hoss scribbled an intimate postscript on a slip which she had paper-clipped to the bottom of the original, he muttering aloud in cadence to his written words, as was his habit, "Dear old Heini: Personal regrets at not being able to meet you tomorrow at Posen, where this letter is being routed air courier.†   (source)
  • But Siri knew the slow pace of books and the cadences of theater under the stars.†   (source)
  • The cadences of her speech changed, took on a rural tang.†   (source)
  • The soft cadences of his voice were unmistakable.†   (source)
  • But the whiskey transformed her speech into a spillway notable for its precise, unhurried cadences.†   (source)
  • His name was Faber, and when he finally lost his fear of Montag, he talked in a cadenced voice, looking at the sky and the trees and the green park, and when an hour had passed he said something to Montag and Montag sensed it was a rhymeless poem.†   (source)
  • "So where were we, before I behaved so rudely?" he asked in the gentle cadences of an earlier century.†   (source)
  • Paul had gone still and was listening intently, alert to the altered tones and cadences of their voices.†   (source)
  • ""I was fine that day, all thanks to Allah," Mouzafer says, speaking a decade later, in the soft cadences of an old man going deaf.†   (source)
  • For years Alessandro had been reading Cicero and English parliamentary debates, with no outlet for his oratory except impatient fellow students who did not appreciate the worth of the great cadences Alessandro now had by heart.†   (source)
  • Mumbling to himself from within his chest in speech that seemed so pleasurable and fast that it was almost like singing, he said, in quiet measured cadences, "Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence.†   (source)
  • But I do remember how his voice seemed to blend with the cadences of the stream and give the words an enduring music.†   (source)
  • "Though he was Wazir, "Khan" had been educated in a British school in Peshawar and spoke with the clipped cadences of his school days.†   (source)
  • And the proximity to the former Soviet Republics was obvious, as gangs of heavily armed Chechens, speaking in Slavic cadences that sounded especially foreign to Mortenson's ear, marched in businesslike fashion toward mosques for morning prayer.†   (source)
  • The fifteen of us hit the gallery and began pumping out the fifty pushups in unison, matching our voices and cadences.†   (source)
  • "Do you think we can go all the way this year, Mr. McLean?" the General said, his soft, lethargic voice brushed by the sweet cadences and slurred elisions of the upcountry.†   (source)
  • Bowing to each other and grinning beneath the cloth masks, they began a slow cadenced march toward Pearce, the candles held like swords in front of them as they made their long approach.†   (source)
  • It sets you up with the banality of common events, camouflages the danger signals, positions you with kind and mothering hands, whispers graceful cadences and cunning lullabies, and leads you blithely to terrifying reckoning, perhaps to extinction, but always to banality again.†   (source)
  • After a long childhood with an unbenign father and four years at the Institute, I was looking forward to that day of release when I would no longer be subject to the fixed, irresistible tenets of martial law, that hour when I would be presented with my discharge papers and could walk without cadences for the first time.†   (source)
  • A voice behind me wailed in rhythmic cadences a strangely moving lamentation, "Oh God, why can't they leave us be?†   (source)
  • The gentle Haydn, murmurous with longing, filled the abandoned room nearby with its sweet, symmetrical, pensive cadences, adding to my feeling of some absolute void, and of irretrievable loss.†   (source)
  • Sententious he might occasionally be, but never pompous, never preacherish in tone, and I relished both the letters' complexity of thought and feeling and their simple eloquence; whenever I finished one I was usually close to tears, or doubled over with laughter, and they almost always set me immediately to rereading passages in the Bible, from which my father had derived many of his prose cadences and much of his wisdom.†   (source)
  • Sophie, who is shy enough anyway, detests being forced to perform for Durrfeld, but, smiling a twisted embarrassed smile, complies, speaking at her father's command in Swabian, then in the indolent cadences of Bavaria, now in the tones of a native of Dresden, of Frankfurt, quickly followed by the Low German sound of a Saxon from Hannover and at last—aware that the desperation shows in her own eyes—blurting out an imitation of some quaint denizen of the Schwarzwald.†   (source)
  • For surely my report must have registered in the memory of someone of the senior echelon, and just as surely this old-timer must have returned to the files, and with God knows what cruel mixed sensations of dismay and loss, reread my cool dismissal with its cocksure, priggish and disastrous cadences.†   (source)
  • A cadence like a flock of pigeons, vast, heaven' filling, swept and wheeled, glittered, darkened, kindled again, like wind over prairies.†   (source)
  • That was I. I was there; something of me walked in measured cadence with the measured tread of Jones and his companion, and Theophilus McCaslin who had heard the news somehow back in town, and Clytie as we bore the awkward and unmanageable box past the stair's close turning while Judith, following, steadied it from behind, and so down and out to the wagon; something of me helped to raise that which it could not have raised alone yet which it still could not believe, into the waiting…†   (source)
  • I repeated to myself Anthony's words, catching his accent, soundlessly, and the stress and cadence of his speech, while under my closed lids I saw his pale, candle-lit face as it had fronted me across the dinner table.†   (source)
  • I let her get clear of the place and was about to follow—the rooms were nearly empty—when I heard a voice at the turnstile I had not heard for many years, an unforgettable self-taught stammer, a sharp cadence of remonstration.†   (source)
  • The cadence of this reply makes a full close in the conversation.†   (source)
  • I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence.†   (source)
  • There was a melancholy cadence in Dorothea's voice as she spoke these last words.†   (source)
  • Now and again he heard the singsong cadence of a Chinese quotation.†   (source)
  • "Only a shepherd," Gabriel repeated, in a dull cadence of finality.†   (source)
  • "If I am useless I will go," said Bathsheba, in a flagging cadence.†   (source)
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