At rare intervals, when necessary, they addressed each other in monosyllables, Kama, for the most part, contenting himself with grunts. ❋ Unknown (2010)
His replies are grunted in monosyllables, and his face is set in superlative sourness. ❋ Unknown (2010)
They spoke in monosyllables and short jerky sentences that was more a gibberish than a language. ❋ Unknown (2010)
To his father's direct questions he answered in monosyllables, as, for instance, when asked where he had picked up the deer. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In a nervous society of foreigners who protect themselves from any interchange with Mexicans other than the minimum required to communicate in monosyllables with the maid and the gardener? ❋ Unknown (2002)
Two gruff voices replied in monosyllables, and there was a scraping of chairs and jingling of spurs, as the two horsemen placed themselves at the table. ❋ Unknown (1919)
Spoken to, she replied in monosyllables in a carefully sweet tone. ❋ Unknown (1916)
Gudmund smiled at her enthusiasm, but answered only in monosyllables, as though he did not exactly follow her. ❋ Unknown (1910)
He must be kept as unconscious as the hearing child of the fact that he is learning words, and he should be allowed to prattle on his fingers, or with his pencil, in monosyllables if he chooses, until such time as his growing intelligence demands the sentence. ❋ Annie Sullivan (1905)
To all my speculations about our sick neighbor, and our pearl of kind-hearted landladies, he only replied in monosyllables; at last he started up and said, ❋ Unknown (1897)
/The 'French Revolution' done, and the lectures done, he is going somewhere (to Scotland most probably) to rest himself awhile; to lie about the roots of hedges, and speak to no man, woman, or child except in monosyllables! ❋ Unknown (1883)
Sometimes she would make him stay an hour by her side at a party, going over and over the strange story of Alexander's imprisonment, and asking him questions again and again, until he grew weary and absent, and answered her with rather incoherent phrases, or in short monosyllables not always to the point. ❋ Unknown (1881)
There is also great power in monosyllables, and some of the most sublime and intense passages in our language are almost wholly composed of them. ❋ Sophia Orne (1873)
And you know each time you pick up the phone you have to spend five minutes speaking in monosyllables to a robot who asks you to repeat every response I’m sorry; I didn’t understand your response. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I have been doing my best to become acquainted with you, but you listen and reply in monosyllables, which is most unsociable. ❋ Amy Le Feuvre (N/A)
He sat on the steps, looking out across the dark lawn, and spoke in monosyllables. ❋ Unknown (1916)
The blood pressed about my thumping heart, and I could scarcely speak, except in monosyllables. ❋ Annie Sullivan (1905)
I called [my girlfriend] the monosyllable, and she [kicked] me [in the nuts]! ❋ Weep0r (2010)
[fuck] ❋ Mek (2002)
