sibilation

Something about the patience in her phrasing and the delicacy of her sibilation always turns the clock into vapor.

"We are having a big night, sir," he said, with the peculiar sibilation of his kind and with his broad, flat hands clasped together.

When a bird called one started involuntarily, for the air was so muffled and heavy that it was strange to find it open instantly to let free the delicate sibilation.

He then would have told her alone, but even as he tried to hush his voice, it seemed to pierce the quietude "with frightful audibility, like the sibilation of a possessing spirit."

The South-American Spaniards, so largely recruited from Andalusia, maintain the same sibilation, which is about as offensive to a true Castilian as the dropping of an H is to an educated Englishman.