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"When one has been before an audience a few times one does not feel nervous, and so one has time to look about. Do you care for that sort of thing, Miss Thorn?" "Oh, ever so much. But I was frightened once, when they began to grumble." "There was nothing to fear," said John, laughing. "Audiences of that kind do not punctuate one's speeches with cabbages and rotten eggs."
Sometimes, indeed, as I lay awake in my berth, a horror took me lest the springs of my imagination should run dry. But they never did. As a liar, I out-classed every man on board. But by-and-bye, as we caught the first draught of the trades, the boy began to punctuate my fables with that hateful cough.
How is it possible to extort a meaning from all this jargon about 'devil's seats, death's-heads, and 'bishop's hotels'?" "I confess," replied Legrand, "that the matter still wears a serious aspect, when regarded with a casual glance. My first endeavor was to divide the sentence into the natural divisions intended by the cryptographist." "You mean to punctuate it?" "Something of that kind."
First, a sluttish trollop of German origin is foisted on him for life; next, he is misled to abjure the faith of his fathers for Rome. But patently, desperation in the husband of such a wife weakened his resistance to the Roman Catholic pervert's insinuations. There we punctuate the full stop to our inquiries; we have the secret.
"A right decent crate that was we saw pass over early this morning I'd say, old hoss," continued Perk, nodding his head as if to punctuate his remarks and also to cause his thoughts to flow more smoothly. "I had a good peep at it as we lay behind that bunch o' saw palmetto out front, an' unless I'm away off in my guess, she was a Curtiss-Robin ship a big crate in the bargain."
"'What do you think I'll shave you for nothing and give you a drink. "You will observe that, while the wording is the same, the inflection is different. Please punctuate them properly, and express the idea I intend to convey."
To those who know the Britisher he is forgiven for those luxuries of insular stupidity which punctuate his history. I know what a fine fellow he is, and I pass them by. Mr.
The breaks grew more and more frequent. At last Richards lost himself wholly in thought. He sat long, gazing vacantly at the floor, and by-and-by he began to punctuate his thoughts with little nervous movements of his hands that seemed to indicate vexation. Meantime his wife too had relapsed into a thoughtful silence, and her movements were beginning to show a troubled discomfort.
The pronunciation of Italian in Rome is counted peculiarly pure and rich: hence the Italian axiom, 'lingua toscana in bocca romana' Tuscan tongue in Roman mouth. At first sight, it would seem far more natural to punctuate thus: Rome's azure sky, Flowers, ruins, statues, music, words are weak The glory, &c.
Professor Nichol most truthfully says: "The most fertile source of confusion in English is a slovenly use of relatives." Arrangement, p. 63. No book, however, could possibly deal with every point likely to arise under our wonderful English system of punctuation. This method is well-nigh infallible. If doubt still remains, remember that it is better to punctuate too little than too much.
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