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Pleasant accent
Answer for the clue "Pleasant accent ", 4 letters:
lilt
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n. a jaunty rhythm in music [syn: swing ] v. articulate in a very careful and rhythmic way
Usage examples of lilt.
Good gracious, but his deep masculine voice was rich, with a thick, lilting accent that could only be described as musical.
Such eyes adazzle dancing with mine, such nimble and discreet ankles, such gimp English middles, and such a gay delight in the mere grace of the lilting and tripping beneath rafters ringing loud with thunder, that Pan himself might skip across a hundred furrows for sheer envy to witness.
Ebor, son of Bordis, up on the wall-walk by the western gate, answered a quiet summons and came down the steps to that lilting voice.
The gentle fragrance of calambac lilted in the air, and a hazy face hovered above him.
It chanced that out of one of the bundles there stuck the end of what the clerk saw to be a cittern, so drawing it forth, he tuned it up and twanged a harmony to the merry lilt which the dancers played.
The Carolinian lilt of his voice was incongru-ent with the gruffness of his words.
But before I could feel much, the Lakan herald began to call, in Enchian with the odd Lakan lilt, beginning with ponderous formalities.
His gasps became cries, but the lullaby drowned them out, matting his manhood with its nursery lilt.
When the tide of life beats high in two mortals, and they meet in the moment of its apogee, when all the nature is sweeping on without command, guilelessly, yet thoughtlessly, the mere lilt of existence lulling to sleep wisdom and tried experience--speculation points all one way.
The lilting reggae strains of Bob Marley began to pulse through the speakers, having an almost instant mellowing effect on us both.
To his right, Timmer strummed her lotari softly humming a lilting melody to herself and scribbling the notes down on paper as soon as she had them figured out.
Through the lilting strings of the Allegro first movement, she heard the doorbell ring.
Dora Sigerson Shorter is a balladist of stark power, and Miss Eva Gore-Booth a lyric poet whose natural lilt no preoccupation with mysticism can for more than a moment obscure.
He sheathed his stolen dagger and carolled a line of balladry in lyrical, lilting satire.
He sheathed his stolen dagger and caroled a line of balladry in lyrical, lilting satire.