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Definition of Euphonies
1. euphony [n] - See also: euphony
Lexicographical Neighbors of Euphonies
Literary usage of Euphonies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc (1829)
"... euphonies ;—they felt the want of such sounds in their dialects, ... in euphonies.
It will besten by this, that a speaker of even modern Greek, ..."
2. The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calandar of Popular by William Hone (1835)
"... whereas now it is descended yet lower, even unto the inférieur artificers and
most fermera, who have learned to garnish ;il so their euphonies with ..."
3. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1921)
"It displays every variety of his style from the mock-heroic and shirt-sleeve
journalese of the Yankee's familiar vein to the careful euphonies of his ..."
4. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1916)
"There needs to be a sister-science of euphonies, to treat of the expression of
desirable characters, the biological factors underlying ..."
5. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt by Leigh Hunt, Thornton Leigh Hunt (1860)
"... and urge on his horses with the other customary euphonies of his tribe, and
then see him flash his eye round upon the capping gentleman who sat behind ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"The Passions,' with «« its grace and vigor, its vivid and pliant dexterity of
touch » ; the « Ode to Evening,' a mosaic of euphonies; the «Dirge in ..."
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