The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.

The Lenten significance of the Gospel account of Zacchaeus is that it introduces the themes of pious zeal ( Zacchaeus ' climbing up the sycamore tree ; Jesus ' words: " Zacchaeus, make haste "), restraint ( Jesus ' words: " come down "), making a place for Jesus in the heart (" I must abide at thy house "), overcoming gossip (" And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner "), repentance and almsgiving (" And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor ; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold "), forgiveness and reconciliation (" And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham "), and the reason for the Passion and Resurrection (" For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost ").

* In words where the digraph < gh > represents a voiced velar plosive () in other accents, some Indian English speakers supply a murmured version, for example < ghost >.

Oankali can hear human heartbeats at a distance, as well as sub-vocalization ( words murmured to oneself without actually opening the mouth ), and their sense of smell allows them to detect the species, gender, and emotional status of humans.

As Frans Lemaire has written, " Most of the time, the words present themselves as a murmured complaint or an insistent supplication, as opposed to the cosmic indifference of the music ".

then she murmured: `` You're very kind, Mr. Morgan.

" To which Franck is supposed to have murmured a little sadly, " I fancy I have done rather better things since then .".

An instant later he returned and murmured: " I simply cannot tear myself away from her.

She drank greedily, and murmured, `` Thank you '', as he lowered her head.

`` That'll be a pleasure to see '', the big black murmured as he stared down the barrel of his rifle.

Two men murmured with their heads together at the end of the bar, while the sleek-headed bartender absently polished a glass.

The girl murmured harshly.

He murmured to himself, with firmness: `` No surrender ''.

Now and again he murmured something that ended in a giggle.

The haughty white girl turned to a distinguished, hawk-faced man standing at her side and murmured: `` Look at your watch, Col. Garvier.

`` Now that is a very nice, a very nice '', he murmured to himself, back in his corner.

After a while, Kitty murmured something to Cappy, and he held her close, answering, `` We'll just have to wait till we pull into Philly, honey ''.

I murmured something about a possible difference between New Mexico's history and Mississippi's.

Scotty murmured, `` No, thanks '', so softly his father had to bend his gaunt height across the table and turn a round brown ear to him.

`` Yeah '', Mose murmured, `` yeah.

The sheik smiled and murmured: `` That is precisely correct ''.

`` He must have forgiven me '', Henrietta murmured to the room.

Henrietta murmured that she could quite see how it would, and he nodded approval of her womanly good sense.

True aspirated voiced stops, as opposed to murmured voiced stops such as are extremely rare, but have been described in the Kelabit language.

Some linguists restrict the double-dot subscript ⟨⟩ to murmured sonorants, such as vowels and nasals, which are murmured throughout their duration, and use the superscript hook-aitch ⟨⟩ for the breathy-voiced release of obstruents.

Breathy voice ( also called murmured voice, soughing, or susurration ) is a phonation in which the vocal cords vibrate, as they do in normal ( modal ) voicing, but are held further apart, so that a larger volume of air escapes between them.

Later in the journey the people began running low on supplies and again murmured against Moses and Aaron and said they would have preferred to die in Egypt, but God's provision of manna from the sky in the morning and quail in the evening took care of the situation.

For example, Gujarati has vowels with a partially lax phonation called breathy voice or murmured, while Burmese has vowels with a partially tense phonation called creaky voice or laryngealized.

Noticing Coward's eyes flicker momentarily across the soldiers, she murmured to him: " I wouldn't if I were you, Noël ; they count them before they put them out.

However, his words could not inspire a side which was playing on a nation's goodwill and sentiment, and Nat Lofthouse scored twice to give Bolton Wanderers side a 2 – 0 win.

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Louis Feldman, who believes the Josephus passage on John is authentic, states that Christian interpolators would have been very unlikely to have devoted almost twice as much space to John ( 163 words ) as to Jesus ( 89 words ).

There are also number words which enumerate but are not a distinct part of speech, such as ' dozen ', which is a noun, ' first ', which is an adjective, or ' twice ', which is an adverb.

Another is his " Inflationary Language ", where he incremented numbers embedded in words, whether they are visible or not (" once upon a time " becomes " twice upon a time ", " wonderful " becomes " twoderful ", " forehead " becomes " fivehead ", " tennis " becomes " elevennis ", " I ate a tenderloin with my fork and so on and so forth " becomes "' I nine an elevenderloin with my five ' k ' and so on and so fifth ").

* Tautology ( rhetoric ), an unnecessary or unessential ( and sometimes unintentional ) repetition of meaning, using different and dissimilar words that effectively say the same thing twice ( often originally from different languages )

It may be noted that in a paper on the proportion of the gases or elastic fluids constituting the atmosphere, read by him in November 1802, the law of multiple proportions appears to be anticipated in the words: " The elements of oxygen may combine with a certain portion of nitrous gas or with twice that portion, but with no intermediate quantity ", but there is reason to suspect that this sentence may have been added some time after the reading of the paper, which was not published until 1805.

In other words, the Aquatic Ape Theory explains all of these features, but it explains them all twice.

The story is 1629 words in length and uses a vocabulary of only 236 distinct words, of which 54 occur once and 33 twice.

The cantor then chants the passage beginning with the words Kol Nidrei with its touching melodic phrases, and, in varying intensities from pianissimo ( quiet ) to fortissimo ( loud ), repeats twice ( for a total of three iterations ) ( lest a latecomer not hear them ) the following words ( Nusach Ashkenaz ):

" In Barnum's own words: " I have no desire to be considered much of a philanthropist ... if by improving and beautifying our city Bridgeport, Connecticut, and adding to the pleasure and prosperity of my neighbors, I can do so at a profit, the incentive to ' good works ' will be twice as strong as if it were otherwise.

In other words, over the course of 10 hours, American viewers will be shown approximately three hours of advertisements, twice what they would have seen in the 1960s.

The Short Version comprises about 1300 words while the Long Version about twice that.

In first grade, an advantaged student ( i. e. a literate student ) learns about twice as many words as a disadvantaged student.

The second edition contained 1. 3 million words, almost twice the 700, 000 words of the 1979 edition.

In other words, if a system with twice as many atoms is simulated then it would take between two to four times as much computing power.

It is alleged that she twice contravened Article 9 of the Public Order Act 1987 by using threatening, abusive or insulting words which have the likelihood to stir up hatred and arouse fear.

In 2009, on The Tonight Show with Conan O ' Brien, the talkshow host twice asked actor William Shatner to deliver the written words of former Alaskan Governor and Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin in the style of beat poetry.

When he was in residence, Vanier would pray twice daily in the chapel that was eventually fit into the palace's second floor and, at a time when the Canadian federation was under threat from separatists factions in Quebec, Vanier delivered numerous speeches, in both French and English, and infused with words praising the co-habitation of Anglophone and Francophone Canadians ; in one of the last orations he gave, he said: " The road of unity is the road of love: love of one's country and faith in its future will give new direction and purpose to our lives, lift us above our domestic quarrels, and unite us in dedication to the common good ...

The Middle French word bescuit is derived from the Latin words bis ( twice ) and coquere, coctus ( to cook, cooked ), and, hence, means " twice-cooked ".