dissyllables

Down by the green meadows of Sudbury there dwelt a bewitchingly fair maiden, the musical dissyllables of whose name were often upon the lips of the young men in all the country round about, and whose smile could awaken voiceless poetry in the heart of the most prosaic Puritan swain.

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 Various

Were they newly-discovered planets, nicknamed whilst awaiting baptism, or strange fossils, contemporaries of the Megatherium, or Magyar dissyllables from Dr Bowring's vocabulary?

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

Dissyllables ending in _y_; as, happy, lovely; and in _le_ after a mute; as, able, ample; and dissyllables accented on the last syllable; as, discreet, polite; easily admit of

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

A poet, of all men, should cherish the liquid consonants, and should resist the tendency of the populace to make trochees of all dissyllables.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various

What proportion of Macaulay's words in Paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 are monosyllables and dissyllables?

Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School Edwin L. Miller

_Monosyllables_ are generally compared by adding _er_ and _est; dissyllables, trisyllables_, &c. by _more_ and _most_; as, mild, milder, mildest; frugal, more frugal, most frugal; virtuous, more virtuous, most virtuous.

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

I believe that all English words beginning with a, in which a syllable beginning with h follows, are dissyllables.

Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 6. Colonial Pronunciation Henry Louis 1921

It consists of a series of dissyllables, low at first with a pause after each, but gradually growing in intensity and succeeding one another at shorter intervals, until the bird seems to have got fairly into its stride, when it pulls up with dramatic suddenness.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

Monosyllables, dissyllables, and trisyllables had each their distinct time.

The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915

There is little we can see to distinguish them from prose except a strong tendency, as in the Teutonic languages, toward alliteration, and a leaning toward dissyllables.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913