"Apostrophize" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in Warsaw who would apostrophize the gods like that," he said. The speaker was Prince ...
— The Vultures • Henry Seton Merriman
... the history of lace show how severely the manufacture of this beautiful fabric has strained the nerves of eye and brain. The fishermen's wives on the Scottish coast apostrophize the fish they sell, after their ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 • Various
... rival gather the fruits thereof. "France demands, above all things, peace," with this language had the party of Order been apostrophizing the revolution, since February; with this language did Bonaparte's message now apostrophize the party of Order: "France demands, above all things, peace." Bonaparte committed acts that aimed at usurpation, but the party of Order committed a "disturbance of the peace," if it raised the hue and cry, and explained them hypochrondriacally. The sausages of Satory ...
— The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte • Karl Marx
... whole operation a delicate nasal twang. If the result is not something approaching to the sound required, you must relinquish all hope of achieving it, as I did. Luckily, my business was to dance, and not to apostrophize the lady; and accordingly, when the waltz struck up, I hastened to claim, in the dumbest show, the honour of her hand. Although my dancing qualifications have rather rusted during the last two or ...
— Letters From High Latitudes • The Marquess of Dufferin (Lord Dufferin)
... She had, therefore, no sooner formed the hasty conclusion, that the individual in question belonged to this obnoxious class, than she resumed her former occupation, and continued to soliloquize and apostrophize her absent handmaidens, without even appearing sensible of ...
— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott |
