"Unemphatic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... (') is only written in place of the acute on the last syllable when not before a pause, or when unemphatic. It is understood to belong to ...
— Greek in a Nutshell • James Strong
... accomplished conversationalists who have been persuaded, perhaps in mature life, to attempt a more definite piece of writing; when it is pathetic to see suggestive and even brilliant thought hopelessly befogged by unemphatic and disorderly statement. Still more difficult is it to make people of fine emotions and swift perceptions understand that such qualities are only the basis of authorship, and that the vital necessity for self-expression is to have a knowledge, acquired or instinctive, ...
— Escape and Other Essays • Arthur Christopher Benson
... to his own recorded voice, rubbed the sunstone on his left finger with the heel of his right palm and watched it brighten. There was, he noticed, a boastful ring to his voice—not the suave, unemphatic tone considered proper on a message-tape. Well, if anybody wondered why, when they played that tape off six months from now in Johannesburg on Terra, they could look in the cargo holds of the ship that had brought it across five hundred ...
— Little Fuzzy • Henry Beam Piper |
