Nicholas has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | The swimmer, Cindy Nicholas, barely made it ashore at Dover at the end of the exhausting swim, but a spokesman from the Channel Swimming Association announced that she was in very good shape. | |
| 2. | Miss Nicholas swam from Dover on the English side to France in 8 hours and 58 minutes, then turned around and returned to England. | |
| 3. | Nicholas and Maria love each other. | |
| 4. | Nicholas Biddle began to see that the battle was lost. | |
| 5. | Hello! My name is Nicholas Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barbon. | |
| 6. | The last Russian Emperor, Nicholas II (Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov), was born 144 years ago (in 1868). | |
| 7. | St Nicholas was standing in the garden. | |
| 8. | He also discovered sunspots, the dark areas of the Sun. He saw that the planet Venus has light and dark phases just like the Moon. These discoveries provided empirical information that proved that the Sun is at the center of the Solar System, as Nicholas Copernicus had predicted. | |
| 9. | The door slowly opened; and St. Nicholas, in full array, stood before them. | |
| 10. | Away up in the fourth-story of his grand house, where his wife never goes, St. Nicholas has a little workshop, and there he sits whenever he gets a chance, making the most wonderful dolls, and gorgeous soldiers, and miraculous jumping-jacks, and tin horns. |