Nicholas had absorbed the incantation then, and now with the aid of haragei, he recalled it, pronouncing the strange syllables just as the Messulethe had done at the robot factory.

Kane's face was twisted with anger, and his lips formed strange syllables as he made some decree to those assembled before his throne.

Madoc, son of Owain, king of Gwynedd-how strange those syllables sounded to us.

We all repeat the strange syllables carefully, as though we will remember them.

His strange syllables and cadences sprung, tongued and rolled over each other like the water of his world.

Melegaunt stepped forward, speaking in a language of strange syllables.

Why was the Mundane staring at her and uttering those strange syllables?

Sometimes the strange syllables are a weapon.

He let himself slide down into their hands, hearing nothing he could understand, only a babble of strange syllables.

The terrible men clustered around him and Six Beneficent Winds heard the strange syllables of a coarse foreign tongue: 'What?