inflexions

What we call the inflexions of the Greek verb were once, no doubt, affixes; but while, in the Greek, they have become incorporated with the root, in the Coptic they stand rigidly apart from it.

Notes and Queries, 1850.12.21 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. Various 1852

(Thus a man will talk of Chaucer as though his inflexions were the most important thing about him.)

Poetry Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Subject to a few exceptions which are mentioned below all inflexions followed the same rules.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

Subject to a few exceptions which are mentioned below all inflexions followed the same rules.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

God will recognize his angels by the inflexions of their voices and by their secret sighs.

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

There was an extraordinary earnestness in her tone and when she ceased I listened yet to the seductive inflexions of her voice, that no matter in what mood she spoke seemed only fit for tenderness and love.

The Arrow of Gold 2006

It will be a language with all the inflexions of verbs and nouns regular and all its constructions inevitable, each word clearly distinguishable from every other word in sound as well as spelling.

A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

And the truly poetic account of the writing in the inmost heaven, which, as it consists of inflexions according to the form of heaven, can be read without instruction.

Representative Men 2006

For it appears that the historian of the year 2106 could sit at his desk and listen to the steel-band record of the proceedings; note the speeches and mark the inflexions of the voices.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

No one knew better than Count Pateroff how to use all the inflexions of his voice, and produce from the phrases he used the very highest interest which they were capable of producing.

The Claverings 2005