Citations:accents


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "I do not know what you mean," replied my brother, in accents of wonder, "but to us the discovery we have made completes our misery.
 * Thus not the tenderness of friendship, nor the beauty of earth, nor of heaven, could redeem my soul from woe; the very accents of love were ineffectual.
 * "My days were spent in close attention, that I might more speedily master the language; and I may boast that I improved more rapidly than the Arabian, who understood very little and conversed in broken accents, whilst I comprehended and could imitate almost every word that was spoken.