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She chooses words for euphony as much as meaning.
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The Xhosa are a proud and patrilineal people with an expressive and euphonious language and an abiding belief in the importance of laws, education, and courtesy.† (source)
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It was on one of these hikes—or rambles, as the English euphoniously call them—that I came upon an intriguing finger post, pointing the way to the PLAGUE VILLAGE.† (source)
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If you use ready-made phrases, you not only don't have to hunt about for words; you also don't have to bother with the rhythms of your sentences, since these phrases are generally so arranged as to be more or less euphonious.† (source)
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"Sixty-seven," the coach-caller was saying, his voice lifted in a sort of euphonious cry.† (source)
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He was not then known as Wing Biddlebaum, but went by the less euphonic name of Adolph Myers.† (source)
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Much more euphonious, I think.† (source)
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I have heard it asserted that he is lineally descended from the eminent physician who assisted at the birth of Mr. T. Shandy and that in early years he added an 'e' to his name, for the sake of euphony, as other great men have done before him.† (source)
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Whatever difficulties certain phrases presented to Herr Settembrini's Mediterranean tongue, he had expressed himself in the most delightful fashion—clearly, euphoniously, and, one may well say, graphically.† (source)
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/ /wire/, /rider/, /merriment/), and in the general tendency to get rid of the somewhat uneuphonious /y/, as in /ataxia/ and /pajamas/.† (source)uneuphonious = unpleasingstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uneuphonious means not and reverses the meaning of euphonious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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"I see no objection to its being old," the Princess answered dryly, "but whatever else it is it's not euphonious," she went on, isolating the word euphonious as though between inverted commas, a little affectation to which the Guermantes set were addicted.† (source)
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Those rare dreamers, mysterious priests of the beautiful who silently confront everything with perfection, would have caught a glimpse in this little working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the ancient sacred euphony.† (source)
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Wait till some other time, I—I don't want to—" But her remonstrance came too late; Mandy had yanked her forward and was performing the introduction she so euphoniously described.† (source)
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The sobriquet of La Carconte had been bestowed on Madeleine Radelle from the fact that she had been born in a village, so called, situated between Salon and Lambesc; and as a custom existed among the inhabitants of that part of France where Caderousse lived of styling every person by some particular and distinctive appellation, her husband had bestowed on her the name of La Carconte in place of her sweet and euphonious name of Madeleine, which, in all probability, his rude gutteral language would not have enabled him to pronounce.† (source)
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Clyde Griffiths!" and at once the identity of the intitials as well as the related euphony of the names gave him pause.† (source)
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"I see no objection to its being old," the Princess answered dryly, "but whatever else it is it's not euphonious," she went on, isolating the word euphonious as though between inverted commas, a little affectation to which the Guermantes set were addicted.† (source)
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