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She had rather open blue eyes, and she spoke in an even musical voice with the gentlest of stresses and the ghost of a lisp.
And it is well if, after all his sacrifices and exertions, his works do not resemble a lisping man or a modern ruin.
Learning rocked him in his cradle, and, while yet a child, "He lisped in numbers, for the numbers came."
He has lived to see his lines quoted like those of earlier poets in the literature of his day, lisped by children, and sung at public festivals.
Willie was a little fellow, and lisped very much in talking; but he was brave, and he was obedient.
She joined her trembling voice with hers, and lisped again the words she had loved so well.
She had never seen the jewels before, but she had heard about them almost from the time she was able to lisp.
My old self carried, as it were, within me a little child, and the child chattered and lisped to me.
"Valentine has been reminding me that he used to lisp horribly when a child, but he entirely cured himself before he was your age."
"And it is agreed that Johnnie could cure himself of his lisp if he chose, and if you would continually remind him of it?"
They lisped curiously in their speech, for it was only the vowel sounds which would come without an effort.
It was filled with dark-green, lisping water, and a continual resonant whispering in which you seemed to catch half-framed words, and the low ripple of laughter.
Mary is the first name to be lisped in childhood, the last to be uttered by the quivering lips before they are closed in death.
When a little lad in the land of Judah, I was taught by a beloved mother to lisp the name of Jehovah.
Then he heard a whispering and lisping; and it seemed as if the blossoms were sounding like little crystal bells.
Were I to live to see my children's children, they should be all taught to lisp her praises before they could speak.
Your smile is more bright to her than sunshine, and your childish lisp more sweet than music.
He said; and then he tried to sing, and even to lisp the words as he sang them, just as a child might have done.
Some lisped and were affected, some were natural and manly; and I began to think that, as far as the people were concerned, the Christmas gathering would be a somewhat tame affair.
I scarcely caught the lisping ticks, but they came, and it seemed indeed as if the power of the Creator had passed into the hands of men.
Then here is a viscount, graceful, well-set, easy in his pose, talking with a deep voice, and lisping to the faintest degree.
Your gestures were ever present to my fancy; and I dwelt on the joy I should feel when you would begin to walk and lisp.
He murmurs in his soft lisping Venetian, which abolishes all double consonants, and supplies their place by prolonging the soft liquid sound of the preceding vowel.
A sweet-faced, quaint little fellow he was, with big appealing eyes, a baby lisp to his words, and innocent ways.
She has naturally a very agreeable voice and utterance, which she has changed for the prettiest lisp imaginable.
When first addressed by the chief, I fancied it simply an individual case of lisping; but every person in the camp does likewise.
Even his lisp is said to have added a charm to his speech, and to have made his talk more persuasive.
It is to nurse you, and rear you, when you are unable to help yourselves; to guide your first steps, and teach you to lisp your first syllables.
Never more will the Peers look upon his kindly face, or hear his lisping voice uttering bright thoughts in exquisite phrase.
Sometimes his lisp became so strong that he was scarcely able to utter the words he desired to bring out.
The children were at school, so they did not see, or they might have lisped out something, and set people talking.
A change is already coming over the Conservatives; they are meek and mild, and, with their pocket handkerchiefs at their eyes, lisp about the distresses of the people.
They talked and laughed in low tones, the long syllables of their language lisping and hissing in strange analogy to the noises of the fire or the forest or the rapids or some other natural thing.
Here young and old, even little boys who can only just walk and lisp their prayers, wear them, and, what is more, take a real pleasure in wearing them.
Tenderly the brother and sister were ministered to, her hand resting on each little head, as their lisping voices followed hers in the evening prayer.
It was wonderful how rapidly the child improved with so many teachers, learning to lisp its mother's name and taught by her attempting to say "Doctor."
Is it for this that with expense and pains we form their lisping infant accents to the language of France?
A true man will not move a finger or lisp a syllable to echo what he does not apprehend and approve.
Had we but lisped a word of our intended doings, it would have been said that we visited you on purpose.
Sometimes, when the little ones playing about him lisp their childish praises, a softness fills his eyes, and he thinks of one who is far away.
They who have no teeth cannot pronounce many letters plain, but perpetually lisp and break their words, and some words they cannot bring out at all.
It is formed, in a particular manner, by clashing the tongue partly against the roof of the mouth with considerable force, and may be compared to a very coarse or harsh method of lisping.
For I love to see a little child, who is not of an age to speak plainly, lisping at his play; there is an appearance of grace and freedom in his utterance, which is natural to his childish years.
He, who like Milton lisps in numbers usually sings freely in adolescence; he who is really visited by a true inspiration generally depends on mood rather than on circumstance.
She sunk into a lingering decline, and before her little boy could lisp her name, the friendly turf had closed over his heart-broken mother.
Which honorable title the other little boy echoed in an imperfect lisp, with an eager desire to be taken up and kissed.
She appreciated the active mind and the keen, if sometimes rude, retorts and ready answers of the little lisping girl.
The years rolled back, and he saw two boys kneeling together in childish love at their mother's knee, lisping their evening prayer, unconscious of the bitter years to come.
We want no halting or lisping in the proclamation of what the composer has said, but we want the contents of his thought, not the hollow shell, no matter how distinctly its outlines be drawn.
I wonder why young mothers don't write for their children's first copy Dante's inscription, and teach their baby lips to lisp of the world what he says of hell.
These lisping murmurs and the crash and roar of each incoming wave as it broke were the only sounds.
Let us not cease to pray for her children until we shall hear them lisping forth the praises of the dear Redeemer.
If mothers could see down the years that stretch ahead, it would not always be so hard to lay the little lisping ones under the ground.
He was followed by a little, brown-skinned fellow with an immature Vandyke beard and a lisp.
Ayah, in the mouth of a lisping baby, is one of the prettiest words of the East, and is learned as soon as papa and mamma, being equally easy of articulation.
Children should be taught to lisp their names with reverence, and the aged should bless them with their parting breath.
"We have something else of yours, Stephen," she said in her soft, almost lisping voice, "something which Caleb brought back with him which he has neglected to mention."
"Come with those horses, you idle lads," the lisping voice of the Captain was heard to call.
Jane had turned in another direction, and was slowly lisping an answer to a very animated question of Miss Adeline Taylor's.
There were two other children, the funny little twins, Paul and "Dodo," as Dora called herself in her lisping fashion.
I looked at the young man, who had not once lisped that day; and I plainly read in his attitude his disapproval of my caution.
"The letter is almost certainly in your pocket," said the stranger in perfect English, yet pronounced with a curiously odd lisp and click, "and I must see it."
The very children "lisp in numbers, for the numbers come," and the fathers run immediately to play them.
Horatio is an orphan, the son of a general officer, whose crimsoned stream of life was dried up by an eastern sun, while he was yet a lisping infant.
"I laughed at you, because you lisp: among the pupils of the school, and other people, it often happens that we imitate your preaching to laugh at you," I answered.
They were distant and faint almost as the lisp of the sea, and were surely coming towards him from the sea.
"Couldn't get along without you," she lisps, tripping towards him, and greeting him with the familiarity of an intimate friend.
She whispered, "don't lisp a word of what you heard me say, and don't ask me about it, either."
"Yes, as pearls," lisped Fanny, thinking it quite natural that they should pour out of the youth's hand into her own, for it was a shame to lose them.
His name and his deeds will be cherished and admired as long as the English language is read or spoken, and as long as human lips lisp the name of liberty.
She suddenly realized that she had neglected to lisp, but Uncle Bobby was too taken up with the story to be conscious of any lapse.
"Oh, papa," lisped Carol, in a high-pitched voice supposed to represent the tone of a little child.
Honestly and diligently, she spells and lisps to me something like a new language, with the aid of which she will soon be able in her turn to express herself and to feel.
He remembered the prayer of his childhood, lisped many a time while kneeling by his mother's side, and repeated it once more.
I really believe she lisped less nonsense and bad taste in a year than some of us articulate in a day.
Goldsmith was small in stature, apologetic in manner, hesitating, and at times there was a lisp in speech, which might have been an artistic and carefully acquired adjunct of wit, but it was not.
Bartlett is said to have "lisped in numbers," singing correctly before he could articulate words.
Countless repetition of the conversation of daily life has impressed certain words and phrases upon their memories, and when they come to talk themselves, memory supplies the words they lisp.
At six months of age the child begins to lisp, and at twelve months it is usually able to utter distinct and intelligible sounds of one or two syllables.
She wondered if the lisping mouth would say, "There's another one open," and the fat hand pluck it for her.
I've been worrying about what you'd be like, and just praying you wouldn't have spectacles and talk with a lisp.
Jerry Kennedy, an alcoholic lisp in his voice now, said, "You mean you've accomplished a planet-wide government?"
"It's such a horrid bore learning one's part," lisped the elegant Horace Leicester, half awake on the sofa.
Remember, dear boy, how in your childhood, when your father was living, you used to lisp your prayers at my knee, and how happy we all were in those days.
The cold evidently affected the birds as it did myself, for they lisped only a few bars of song in a half-hearted way.
Lisped the child, sweetly, and Tom was more than ever drawn toward her when he saw the appealing smile on her face.
Lisping is brought about by placing the tongue upon the hard surface of the palate, and in cases where the subject is unduly excited or influenced by emotion the lisp becomes more pronounced.
She already lisped a little, laughed at her mother like a little mad thing, was plump and quite round, and possessed a thousand charming little gestures of the angels of paradise.
Keith, whose first husband was Richard Keith, cashier in his wealthy cousin's banking house, had buried that husband when Olive was five years old, and baby Claire scarce able to lisp his name.
Everyone joined in saying it, and it was a pretty sight to see the little creatures bowing their curly heads and lisping out the words they knew so well.
Sometimes one, sometimes the other, sounded a faint lisping note, and motioned for another kiss.
Another woman (I rejoice to hear that lisping, foreign tongue) says that our sphere is so narrow that we should be careful to keep within it.
A man who lisped, having bought some pigs, asked a neighbor for the use of a pen for a few days.
Well, on a beautiful afternoon father and my brothers arrived, and we all had tea out on the shady lawn, up to the very edge of which the waves were lapping and lisping.
Whatever I do I must look out for mother's comfort and peace of mind, and so I will not lisp a word of this to her.
His voice, however, when he spoke was gentle and lisping, while his manner was quiet and courteous.
Johnson successfully laughed at infants lisping out, "Angels and ministers of grace, defend us."
A long, faint whisper, as indistinguishable as the lisp of leaves on a distant hill, trickled into his ears.
A new settler's four-year-old lisped "Six Little Rabbits," with many promptings and encouraging nods from the teacher.
Of course, he speaks, too, of his nation, his people, awaking, lisping, beginning to speak, waiting for him, the chosen Voice!