There he sat, with his tweed suit and his American accent, in the corner of a prosaic railway-carriage, and yet as I looked at his dark and expressive face I felt more than ever how true a descendant he was of that long line of high-blooded, fiery, and masterful men.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
The man, like Mrs. Stapleton herself, spoke good English, but with a curious lisping accent.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— an effort in speech to stress one syllable over adjacent syllables
also : the stress thus given a syllable
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Macmillan
— a way of saying words that shows what country, region, or social class someone comes fro
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Other Word Forms
accented
accenting
accents
Usage
2 uses of ‘accent’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle