Up rose a measure transcending in rapture all forgone, and flawless, unfaltering, consummate, leaped on and on, rhythm by rhythm, clear-syllabled for conquest.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman
I may be super-sensitive and crotchety about such things, but I can see no excuse for keeping a servant-especially a nurse-maid-who laughs at everything that's said by her superiors, even though the quip may be no more side-splitting than a two syllabled "da-da."
"A Fool and His Money"
George Barr McCutcheon
They forgot the weariness engendered by a dozen hours in the open air while they listened to a story old as the human race, and yet as new to-day as when syllabled by the first happy lover.
"The Squire's Daughter"
Silas K(itto) Hocking