Despair leaned forward, straining to hear, lest he miss a single syllable.

But the answer, though it came in a single syllable, was unmistakable.

Standing beside her, he raised his hand and spoke a single syllable.

I detected, in the single syllable of my name, a slight accent.

Without uttering a single syllable, Talleyrand made a profound reverence to Fouche.

I hadn't time to read a single syllable of it, aunt-thankyou.

The next time the voice came, Thomas understood every single syllable.

What manifold anguish may burst from a human heart in a single syllable.

He did not stir and did not utter a single syllable.

And then once they're in, everything is analyzed, every single syllable.

The fellow had a-girl. Giving the single syllable a slight nuance.

And, recollect, a single syllable of warning will be your death!

Now, after a month of not communicating, neither could push out a single syllable.

But no single syllable would the old beldame now utter against her ancient mistress.

The single syllable told her that something bad had happened.

He had required companion and neither to add nor to omit a single syllable.