单词 | apostrophic |
例句 | As she uttered these apostrophic appeals, she sprang forward, holding the snake far outstretched—as if to give it the opportunity of striking the now terrified man. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z Then, as D. B. B. reminds, there are the writers of apostrophic verse who skip lightly from ‘you’ to ‘thou’ and ‘thee,’ and from ‘thy’ to ‘your.’ The So-called Human Race The address was simply as before: “To Edward Warfield;” and so to the apostrophic commencement: “Stranger!” The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness I was on the point of changing my tirade into the apostrophic form, and at the same time ordering the man out of my sight, when something in his look influenced me to remain silent. The Scalp Hunters The sight of the pair moved Broffin to speech apostrophic—when the two were out of earshot. The Price "When the apostrophic s is used, the genitive is the former of the two substantives; as, 'John's house:' but when the particle of is used, it is the latter; as, 'The house of John.'" The Grammar of English Grammars He remembered the apostrophic close of a novel in which the heroine dies after much emotional suffering. April Hopes Her mind straightway filled up the two letters concealed by apostrophic reserve, and I read in her assenting eyes that she knew Jawkins was a Snob. The Book of Snobs It is understood by every reader, that the apostrophic s adds a syllable to the noun, whenever it will not unite with the sound in which the nominative ends; as, torch's, pronounced torchiz. The Grammar of English Grammars |
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