In such apostrophes the whole of the Song of the Three Children abounds; and we meet with many such in the early writers.
In apostrophes like these, the members of the Anglican Church see nothing in itself harmful, so long as they are kept within due bounds.
Such apostrophes as these cannot be too steadily borne in mind, or too carefully weighed, when any argument is sought to be drawn from similar salutations offered by ancient Christian orators to saint, or angel, or the Virgin.
The Church of Rome, in this instance, gives us a vivid example of the ease with which exclamations and apostrophes are made the ground-work of invocations.
With Isaiah these vehement apostrophesare but flashes of genius, but with Jesus the interior change becomes at once the principle and the end of the religious life.
It is impossible to call by the name of sermons the collections of rude apostrophes which the missionaries addressed to those whom they wished to convert; at this paroxysm the thirst for martyrdom becomes the madness of suicide.
Out of the past came the shrill sound of boys ruining The Ancient Mariner, and Michael heard again the outraged apostrophes of Mr. Neech.
The tenuous spiral of perfumed smoke carried up his emotional apostrophes through the prosaic ceiling of the old night-nursery past the stars, beyond the Thrones and Dominations and Seraphim to God.
Michael read Don Quixote again on account of Dulcinea del Toboso, and he was greatly moved by the knight's apostrophes and declamations.
But in the apostrophes grief and indignation can find a voice and stir the heart.
We lack the declamation of Lucan, the apostropheson the issues of the war, the vivid character-sketches of the generals, the political enthusiasm, the thunder of the oratory of general and statesman.
It is true that these are rough words, in any form you can give them; but let us remember, that needless apostrophes are as rough to the eye, as needless st's to the ear.
No writer, however, thinks it always necessary to remind his readers of this, by inserting the sign of contraction; though English books are not a little disfigured by questionable apostrophes inserted for no other reason.
If a person knows what he means to say, let him express it according to the Note, and he will not fail to use just as many apostrophes and Esses as he ought.
It is interesting to trace in his apostrophes the double feeling of the prophet.
The apostrophes to the citizens of Florence at large, and the imprecations on some of the worst offenders among the party-leaders (especially in book ii.
Whether the parenthetical apostrophes to Jehovah as Maker of the heavens, their hosts and all the powers of nature (Amos iv.
If I am right, then I think that the date of the apostrophes to Jehovah’s creative power which occur in the Book of Amos, and the reference to astral deities in chap.
Quotation Marks are made by two inverted commas " at the beginning and two apostrophes " at the end of the quoted matter.
He hummed with his lips, imitating the sounds of the instruments, and went on interspersing the music with his apostrophes in which pleasure and annoyance were mingled.
Old Krafft used to intersperse his enthusiastic narratives with indignant apostrophes addressed to his hero.
He assumed a portentously solemn look; and when he spoke to me again, his speech was ornamented by no oaths, enforced by no finger-snapping, enlivened by no apostrophes or exclamations.
I perceived, as her training had taught her, that my English eyes would tolerate apostrophes of open-hearted affection.
His convulsed frame rocked the syllables, as with a groan, unpleasant to hear, he called on my aunt Dorothy by successive stammeringapostrophes to explain, spreading his hands wide.
They are mostly epic in character, lyric in tone, with abrupt apostrophes causing the listener to start, like the sudden sound of a trumpet.
They are frequently colloquial, sometimes interrogatory, the transitions quick, and the apostrophes abrupt.
We seldom meet in his Odes with the abrupt apostrophes of passionate excursion; but his transitions are conducted with ease, and every subject introduced with propriety.
In this case, apostrophes were omitted in the essay section but used in the play.
Editorial note: The reader is likely to notice the absence of apostrophes from contractions in the essay section of this work.
The policy of Project Gutenberg is to treat apostrophes as they were in the source text.
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