to create a lyrical sound when read aloud. 2016, Peter Nicholls, Peter <span class="searchmatch">Boxall</span>, Thinking Poetry, page 25: melodics cannot be of central interest in the...
sparsened) (rare, ambitransitive) To make or become sparse. 2015, Peter <span class="searchmatch">Boxall</span>, The Value of the Novel, page 36: Again and again, as Beckett's narrative...
and often is, so devised as to heighten the effect. Miss Morgan and Miss <span class="searchmatch">Boxall</span> are as famous for this as for their playing. Whether the player be blonde...
and spittle they warn you not to drink, backwash it’s called. 2008, Peter <span class="searchmatch">Boxall</span>, editor, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Cassell Illustrated: Colette’s...