Before Keller, there was Laura Bridgman, who was blind and deaf but learned to speak in monosyllables _ and to thread a needle.
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He was settled comfortably in a large chair, speaking very rarely or only in occasional monosyllables, and mostly remaining detached from everyone around him.
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Monosyllables are always anceps in English they can take a stress or shrug it off, no matter how " important " they may seem.
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Later generative metrists pointed out that poets have often treated non-compound words of more than one syllable differently from monosyllables and compounds of monosyllables.
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Later generative metrists pointed out that poets have often treated non-compound words of more than one syllable differently from monosyllables and compounds of monosyllables.
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Trained in a camp ? _ and their subjects, some clearly nervous, others feigning nonchalance, reply in monosyllables : No, no, no.
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But while Beatty was rapping with his pals, he had only monosyllables _ at best _ for the press, who waited hours for just a peep.
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Those four monosyllables come hurled out of Sethe's history like stones off a cliff, and they testify to the unthinkable iniquities she has already suffered.
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It's just ridiculous that you would cross the Atlantic to meet a man who speaks in monosyllables and has nothing of interest to say ."
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Due to the flexibility of emphasis in monosyllables, the beginning of line 11 may be scanned as regular, an initial reversal, or a minor ionic.