Seu i le vaa o Lata, or Seuilevaaolata, "steersman in the canoe of Lata," is a name not yet extinct in Samoa; but the person who bears such a sentential appellation seldom gets more than the first syllable.
"Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before"
George Turner
sentential Pitch in its various modes is descriptive of the general position in the scale taken by the tones of the voice in uttering a sentence or passage.
"The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886"
Ministry of Education
In every style of diction, no matter how unimpassioned it may be, there will be frequent changes in the train of thought, and frequent changes in the intensity of feeling; to represent these changes there should be corresponding variations, or transitions in sentential pitch.
"The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886"
Ministry of Education