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Definition of Mellifluously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mellifluously
Literary usage of Mellifluously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Round about Rio: A Novel by Frank De Yeaux Carpenter (1884)
""Fancy how mellifluously 'Pindamonhangaba' must have rolled from the lips of ...
"Yes," growled the Colonel, "and fancy how mellifluously it must roll from ..."
2. Tamil Proverbs with Their English Translation: with their English by P. Percival (1874)
"He speaks to hrm mellifluously, and accompanies him across the street-iti order
to get rid of him. ;3987. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The flute-like note of the magpie or shrike is one of the most mellifluously
melodious sounds in nature, ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1881)
"... mellifluously on every conceivable subject save the desired one. She treated
her to a dissertation on ..."
5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"Whether this arose from deficiency of ear—which could not well be, as he is said
to have sung the ballads and songs of our native land mellifluously, ..."
6. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson (1910)
"... mellifluously like a sucking-dove; but Modestine would be neither softened
nor intimidated. She held doggedly to her pace; nothing but a blow would move ..."
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