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tonos

n. (label en orthography and typography) The (w: Modern Greek) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress%20(linguistics)-marking (l/en: diacritic): ⟨ '''(l mul ΄ ΄)''' ⟩, written atop a vowel in a given word’s stressed (l/en: syllable).

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Majordomo Tonos and a hastily sent servant brought the Lady Mehleena to the bath chamber.

When, at last, Mehleena had stopped her screaming, raving tantrum, Tonos approached her.

From his fruitless search for horses, Tonos already knew the stables to be empty of Tahmahs and his godless crew as well as of any save the two warhorses.

Raging with frustration, Tonos jammed the broad, knife-edged blade of his wolf spear into the body of the aged, inoffensive dog again and again and again.

When one of the white-faced men stepped forward, his sword raised for a mercy stroke, Tonos pushed him back.

The rebel captain would much have preferred a quick death from lance or saber, axe or arrow, for Bili of Morguhnwho had right speedily pressed his rightful claim to Speeros Sanderz, the captain and the majordomo, Tonos, who had been found cowering in an old privy pit during the searching for Myronmade no secret of the great delight he would derive from their interrogation, torture and eventual execution.

Stout Tonos goes on to say that she then attacked your brother and a whole roomful of men with an axe.

Mehleena had stopped her screaming, raving tantrum, Tonos approached her.