Sentence example with the word 'dactyls'

dactyls

Last update: November 3, 2015


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It was the tendency of these writers to use dactyls in preference to spondees with a view to lightness and rapidity.   [Please select]

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My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls.   [Please select]

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A man may be a poet without measuring spondees and dactyls like the ancients, or clashing the ends of lines into rhyme like the moderns, as one may be an architect though unable to labour like a stone-mason--Dost think Palladio or Vitruvius ever carried a hod.   [Please select]

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