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Definition of the day : « dactyl »
- As in toe : noun foot part
- This foot, which is the opposite of the dactyl, is known as the anapest.
- Extract from : « Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism » by F. V. N. Painter
- Pain is always by the side of joy, the spondee by the dactyl.
- Extract from : « Notre-Dame de Paris » by Victor Hugo
- The letters “v v v” indicate that the dactyl at the beginning of the line has been dropped.
- Extract from : « The Works of John Marston » by John Marston
- There is a similar contrast in the cases of the dactyl and anapæst.
- Extract from : « Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 » by Various
- But in all the feet except the fifth, a spondee ( ) may take the place of the dactyl.
- Extract from : « New Latin Grammar » by Charles E. Bennett
- You always feel as if Horace only used it also when he wanted a dactyl.
- Extract from : « Val d'Arno » by John Ruskin
- “Dactyl” is a fine word; in Greek it means “finger”; like a finger, a poetic dactyl has three parts, one long and two short.
- Extract from : « Practical English Composition: Book II. » by Edwin L. Miller
- The Dactyl, which has the first syllable accented and the two latter unaccented: as, "Jnthin, Jffr-sn."
- Extract from : « The Comic English Grammar » by Percival Leigh
- The proceleusmatic foot, or four short syllables, instead of the dactyl; scen.
- Extract from : « View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 (of 3) » by Henry Hallam
- This done and you have discovered the Vernal Equinox, or Spring, and without spilling a dactyl.
- Extract from : « Of All Things » by Robert C. Benchley