"Circumflex" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The CIRCUMFLEX generally denotes either the broad sound of a or an unusual sound given to some other vowel; as in all, heir, machine. Some use it to mark a peculiar wave of the voice, and when occasion requires, reverse it; as, "If you said so, then I ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... peculiar native letters. It will be found that the mode of spelling Malay words adopted by Marsden has been followed in the main.[53] In this Introduction the long vowels (that is, the vowels which are written in full in the native character) are marked with a circumflex accent, but it has not been thought necessary to adopt this system in the body of ...
— A Manual of the Malay language - With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay • William Edward Maxwell
... accent ['a] a with grave accent [^a] a with circumflex [:a] a with diaeresis [)a] a with breve [a] a with macron [c,] c with cedilla [C,] C with cedilla ['e] e with acute accent ['e] e with grave accent [^e] e with circumflex [:e] e with diaeresis [)e] e with ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer
... acute / macron breve ) diaresis : tilde dot . cedilla 5 circumflex ^ up tack backslash th ligature [t-h] horizontal ...
— New National First Reader • Charles J. Barnes, et al.
... (with hyphen) Bunt (for Bundt) cocoanut compote (without circumflex accent) Curacoa (with cedilla) gateau (without circumflex accent) girkin nudel, plural nudels omelet except in ...
— Desserts and Salads • Gesine Lemcke
... "Larsen EB-11" encode scheme includes: (taken, in part, from EB-11 guide to proofreaders) Acute French <ecole Grave Italian citt<aoe Umlaut/Diaeresis German <uber Circumflex French <ile Hacek Czech haek Macron Sanskrit stra Breve Persian(?) Chm Ring Swedish ngstr<om Tilde Spanish seor Dot ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson - Volume IV [The Rambler and The Adventurer] • Samuel Johnson
... sort like our own person; seeing ourselves every day, we end, like the Baron, by thinking ourselves but little altered, and still youthful, when others see that our head is covered with chinchilla, our forehead scarred with circumflex accents, our stomach assuming the rotundity of a pumpkin. So these rooms, always blazing in Betty's eyes with the Bengal fire of Imperial victory, were to her ...
— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac
... strong assistant. The legs also must be secured to prevent the animal from kicking. A vertical incision should be made in the left flank, about the middle of the upper portion, care being taken not to make the opening too far down, in order to avoid the division of the circumflex artery which traverses that region. The operator should now make an opening through the peritoneum, which is best done with the fingers. Next the hand and arm should be introduced into the abdominal cavity and the ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture
... shown again on page 85 its huge chimneys, its wide fire-places the huge, deep fire-places hyphens in original: normal for text is "fireplaces" The Swiss chalet printed with circumflex over "e" instead of "a" their good farming neighbors didn't call on them text reads "did'nt" an entrance door near the wood house form "wood house" unchanged: normal for text is "wood-house" (but note title page) Within doors it is a work-shop too. hyphen in original: normal for text is ...
— Rural Architecture - Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings • Lewis Falley Allen
... 6. The circumflex, which indicates the long, closed [o:], is corrected as other errors by placing the corrected version of the item in ...
— Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language • Diego Collado
... Rose did to the Cypress' has a number of names which include a macron (straight line) above one or more of the letters. They have been replaced with a circumflex in this version of the etext for ease ...
— The Brown Fairy Book • Andrew Lang
... Since the circumflex accent properly indicates a rise and fall of voice-pitch on a vowel-sound such as almost makes a disyllable of a monosyllable (e.g. in Milton's verse the word power may fill either one or two places in the line) I will adopt ...
— Society for Pure English, Tract 2, on English Homophones • Robert Bridges
... and the variable spelling of "vice versa" (with or without circumflex) are unchanged. The term "anyrate" is always written as a ...
— Modern marriage and how to bear it • Maud Churton Braby
... open o [[c].] open o with dot under [h] h with stroke [p.] p with dot under [^q] q with circumflex [vs] s with caron [vs.] s with caron and dot under [t.] t with dot under [ts.] ts with dot under [] ...
— Animal Figures in the Maya Codices • Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen
... their shark's fins served with jujube sauce, the whole washed down by small glasses of castor oil. We will have a house painted apple-green and vermilion, presided over by a female mandarin with no feet, circumflex eyes, and nails that serve as toothpicks. When ...
— The Cross of Berny • Emile de Girardin
... distinguished—(1) the acute ('), a rising accent; (2) the grave ('), apparently merely the indication that in particular positions in the sentence the acute accent is not used where it would occur in the isolated word; and (3) the circumflex, which, as its form (^) shows, and as the ancient grammarians inform us, is a combination of the rising and the falling accent upon the same syllable, this syllable being always long. Different Greek dialects, however, varied the syllables of the word on which the accent ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... of boots one pair of feet demands, If polished daily by the owner's hands; If the dark menial's visit save from this, Have twice the number,—for he 'll sometimes miss. One pair for critics of the nicer sex, Close in the instep's clinging circumflex, Long, narrow, light; the Gallic boot of love, A kind of cross between a boot and glove. Compact, but easy, strong, substantial, square, Let native art compile the medium pair. The third remains, and let your tasteful skill Here show some relics ...
— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... an English phrase or sentence, but due to sheer volume, are marked in the text itself when part of a quotation, book title, or the like. The symbols employed are mostly obvious: (/) is acute, () is grave, (^) is circumflex, () is tilde, (") is umlaut, (,) [after c in the middle of a word] is cedilla; and ...
— A Vanished Arcadia, • R. B. Cunninghame Graham
... attempted in the manner which seemed least liable to misconception, and, except as regards the letters A and U no particular system has been followed. These have been invariably given the sounds they possess in the words "path" and "cut" respectively, a circumflex being placed over the latter to denote the short U in ...
— Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet • by William Henry Knight
... circumflex accent that he had above his nose, said not a word. Then the very humble priest trembled in his skin to have confessed so much to his superior. But the holy man directly said to him, "She must be very ...
— Droll Stories, Volume 1 • Honore de Balzac
... stand isolated in our thoughts, have their interest. Even lists of exceptions have their interest. If we are studying Greek accents, it is interesting to know that pais and pas, and some other monosyllables of the same form of declension, do not take the circumflex upon the last syllable of the genitive plural, but vary, in this respect, from the common rule. If we are studying physiology, it is interesting to know that the pulmonary artery carries dark blood and the pulmonary vein carries ...
— English Prose - A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice • Frederick William Roe (edit. and select.)
... Arcady" (page 116), the circumflex in "vice versa" has been retained from the original, but "shrubberries" ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914 • Various |
