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Updated: May 4, 2025
Some of them were beautiful beyond description; others were terrible beyond compare, and so hard to understand. Each day made its own paragraphs and punctuation marks, and how surprising and unexpected many of them were! Commas would become semicolons and periods give place to exclamation points, in the most reckless sort of fashion.
Among our present writers, the art of punctuation is a lost accomplishment; and it is usual now to find writings with hardly anything but full stops; colons and semicolons are almost obsolete; commas are neglected, or misused; and our slovenly pages are strewn with dashes, the last resources of an untidy thinker, the certain witnesses to a careless and unfinished sentence.
Or even when, remembering some graver page say the dedication of "Faust" to Goethe's dead contemporaries one fetches the book and reaches it silently to the other one, not daring to read it out loud.... It is when these things happen that one is really getting the good of books; and that one feels that there really is something astonishing and mysterious in words taken out of the dictionary and arranged with commas and semicolons and full stops between them.
She hoped that their relations might continue as in the past, and in this hope she remained very truly his. She gave a sigh of relief when the letter was finished, and read it through carefully, putting in commas and semicolons and colons at what she thought appropriate places.
This morning, while listening to the tedious chanting and lukewarm sermon, I depreciated the whole affair, cathedral and all; but now I do more justice, at least to the latter, and am only sorry that its noble echoes must follow at every syllable, and re-reverberate at the commas and semicolons, such poor discourses as the canon's.
As for punctuation, he never attempts it, beyond an occasion period, jotted down whenever he happens to think of it, whether in the right place or not. The Story Girl goes over his dreams after he has written them out, and puts in the commas and semicolons, and straightens out the sentences. Felix sits on the right of the Story Girl, fat and stodgy, grimly in earnest even over dreams.
Had Rosamund been accustomed to leading articles which are the composition of men of an imposing vocabulary, she would have recognized and as good as read one in Cecil's gestures as he tilted his lofty stature forward and back, marking his commas and semicolons with flapping of his elbows, and all but doubling his body at his periods. Mr.
You never have any conversational semicolons, to say nothing of periods." "As I was saying," Sally repeated pertinaciously; "my world is overcrowded. I have so many acquaintances that I never get time to enjoy my friends." "What about now?" Bobby queried. "Here are we, and here is time. Which is lacking: enjoyment, or friendship?" "Oh, this is an interlude, and doesn't count.
Far-reaching from somewhere comes the smell of ham and red cabbage, and the crash of dishes on the American plan. The indeterminate hum of life in the Thalia is enlivened by the discreet popping at reasonable and salubrious intervals of beer-bottle corks. Thus punctuated, life in the genial hostel scans easily the comma being the favorite mark, semicolons frowned upon, and periods barred.
To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it, seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph, mere stops. Yet I suppose it is not so to the absent. At least, I have read things written about Niagara, music, and the like, that interested me. Once I was moved by Mr.
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