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Monosyllabic prepositions often stand between the noun and an adjective modifying it.
Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland
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The customary division of languages is into Monosyllabic, Agglutinative,
Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs William Gates 1901
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If brevity were the body, as well as the soul of wit, Fink must have been about the wittiest man that ever lived, the Monosyllabic
The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales John Charles Dent 1864
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Modern philologists have made different classifications of the various languages of the world, one of which divides them into three great classes: the Monosyllabic, the Agglutinated, and the Inflected.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853
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-- The _first_, or Monosyllabic class, contains those languages which consist only of separate, unvaried monosyllables.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853
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"Monosyllabic terseness towards goyim?" he wrote in a recent blog for the Daily Telegraph.
FailedMessiah.com 2010
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That's why all of our recaps lately have come from Tarzan and Tonto's Monosyllabic News!
AZ Snakepit 2010
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This book has done more than any other to dispel misunderstandings about Chinese, especially those concerning Chinese characters, including the Ideographic Myth, the Universality Myth, the Emulatability Myth, the Monosyllabic Myth, the Indispensability Myth, and the Successfulness Myth.
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Monosyllabic words were presented in an auditory (A) and auditory-visual (AV) condition under varying noise levels.
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Monosyllabic and constructed as though he had mashed his keyboard with his palms.
Hecklerspray 2009
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