admiration-points

Updated: May 19, 2025

Reade has abandoned his functions as apostle of grammatical free-love. Of tricks of typography there are also fewer, although these yet remain in an excess which good taste can hardly sanction. We often find whole platoons of admiration-points stretching out in line, to give extraordinary emphasis to sentences already sufficiently forcible.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859