What is "accents"

Usage examples of "accents".

I remarked their English accents and listened vaguely to their conversation.

He was surprised at their manners and at their accents, and his brow grew thoughtful.

Despite years in the Line Marines he still spoke with the crisp accents of his native Churchill.

There had been many accents, and the officer with the clipboard had yet another.

Her Anglic was North American, almost-but-not-quite Taxpayer class, the voice of someone who carefully copied the upper-class accents on the Tri-V.

All he could remember were the sounds of voices over time, the subtle shifting and changing of accents and language dialects as the years passed.

When he ceased, she spoke--her accents breaking through the silence like clear notes of music sweetly sung.

Khosrul continued in softer, more melancholy accents, that, while plaintive, were still singularly impressive.

And as she uttered these words, in accents of dreamy delight, she ascended the first step of the Shrine.

Her sweet accents shook with a liquid thrill suggestive of tears, --but he was silent.

She remained quiet as a tame bird,--her eyes met his with beautiful trust and tenderness,--and when she answered him, her low, sweet accents thrilled to his heart with a pathetic note of HUMAN affection, as well as of angelic sympathy!

Taraboner accents, curtsying, and halfway through that, her face was suddenly that of Beonin Marinye.

Many younger folk had the accents of Saldaea or Kandor, Arafel or Shienar-he himself sounded of Saldaea-but she did not sound a Borderlander at all.

Tedosian and Simaan might have come around sooner, but some fellows with strange accents have been promising them gold and men.

Apparently the golden-haired woman still resented the fact that she would not be going with him, but her reaction to hearing her native accents in Tear made that impossible.