rhythmus

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The Polish polkas and mazurkas, with their changing and fugitive rhythmus and their lively, uneven time, admirably184 embody the light and graceful spirit of this people.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science by Various

What is a little extraordinary, there is a want of rhythmus and cadence in what they write without the help of metrical rules.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob

I rendered it from the French version, preserving the rhythmus and the measure of the original.” 

From Servian Popular Poetry by Bowring, John

They register less completely, it seems to me, because the departure is too sudden in the rhythmus of the artist.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden

This defect is held by the Experimentalist to result from inattention to rhythmus: so much he thinks has been proved by Mr. Thelwall.

From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Hogg, James