Word: accented
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...destinct strains are felt throughout, one military, one of the sea. Always is heard the clanging of armour, but in the back ground is the unceasing roar of the sea. These legends were sung or rather chanted to the accompaniment of a musical instrument. and together with the peculiar accent and alliteration of the poetry, their reading was made very impressive. Our ancestors were a religious people even when pagans, their literature being as much of religion as of war, the sea, or domestic love...
...Caucus in Ward Three" is a story of a caucus which meets for the nomination of an alderman. Several examples of the genus politician (including a man of unmistakable Irish accent), one or two jokes, and a short description have been poured into the author's crucible and the residuum is a political sketch, with no plot and of some interest...
...fact of accent is related to the pulse beat, to whose rate it in some cases approximates, and that of periods to the breathing, whose interval approximates to that of a four-barperiod. The equalities that subsist between successive larger periods have also been referred to accompanying symmetrical movements of dancing...