Mere mellifluousness is enough to cause you to suspend disbelief when a proven slimebag orates? ❋ Unknown (2010)
Eventually Haroun helped restore to his father, Rashid Khalifa. all the garrulity and mellifluousness for which he, in the story, and Mr. Rushdie, in life, are celebrated. ❋ Meghan Cox Gurdon (2010)
‘I do know,’ said the old gentleman, laying his finger on his nose, with an air of familiarity, most reprehensible, ‘that this is a sacred and enchanted spot, where the most divine charms’ — here he kissed his hand and bowed again — ‘waft mellifluousness over the neighbours’ gardens, and force the fruit and vegetables into premature existence. ❋ Unknown (2007)
His mellifluousness was gone and he spat out the words with mechanical intonation. ❋ Jonathan Kellerman (1985)
Though her French accent was so much part of her that it remained, all the mellifluousness of her manner left her when she was engaged in teaching. ❋ Unknown (1919)
It has not the mellifluousness of Italian, Italian is the language of tenors and organ-grinders, but it has grandeur: it does not ripple like a brook in a garden, but it surges tumultuous like ❋ Unknown (1915)
Nothing can be said, for instance, of that fluent journalist and biased historian Macaulay, nor of the mellifluousness of Newman, nor of the vigour of Kingsley or ❋ G. H. Mair (1906)
Mrs. Marston stood at the kitchen door in the most splendid of her caps -- a pagoda of white lace -- and her voice was, as she afterwards said, 'quite sharp,' its mellifluousness being very slightly reduced. ❋ Mary Gladys Meredith Webb (1904)
If when you have read an author you are pleased, without being conscious of aught but his mellifluousness, just conceive what your feelings would be after spending a month's holiday with a merely mellifluous man. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
Their oriental mellifluousness, hyperbolism, and obsequious politeness of speech have, as well as the Asiatic appearance of their features and dress, been noticed by all travellers in Poland. ❋ Niecks, Frederick (1888)
In this condition of things it may seem useless to found any claim for Poe on the ground of the exquisite mellifluousness of his versification. ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)
'I do know,' said the old gentleman, laying his finger on his nose, with an air of familiarity, most reprehensible, 'that this is a sacred and enchanted spot, where the most divine charms' -- here he kissed his hand and bowed again -- 'waft mellifluousness over the neighbours' gardens, and force the fruit and vegetables into premature existence. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
Suddenly nervous, I find myself hoping she'll notice those echoes of New England I've been told are rather charming, or the mellifluousness I like to think of as mesmerizing. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The two pieces that Buchholz performed are excellent works - a typical march, while the Canzonetta was pastorale-like in its mellifluousness. ❋ Unknown (2009)
