 | Sara Elizabeth Husted Lockwood - 1888 - 446 páginas
...style of punctuation, we have the following startling statement : — " Every lady in this land Hath twenty nails upon each hand ; Five and twenty on hands and feet. And this is true, without deceit." By a slight change of punctuation, the true meaning becomes apparent... | |
 | Practical Text Book Co - 1892 - 108 páginas
...$50,000, the decision of which turned on the position of a comma. The Tariff Act passed by the XLIId Congress provided that fruit plants, and certain other...on hands and feet this is true without deceit. AN EPITAPH—PUNCTUATE TO SUIT. He is an old and experienced man in vice and wickedness he is never found... | |
 | James H. Bryant - 1892 - 244 páginas
...would be a savage." The next day it appeared in print, " Woman, without her man, would be a savage." Punctuate the following lines so as to make them express...Every lady in the land has twenty nails upon each hand Fiv« and twenty on hands and feet this is true without deceit. AN EPITAPH— PUNCTUATE TO SUIT. He... | |
 | Chandler Belden Beach - 1893 - 820 páginas
...the sense of any composition, take the following example: Every lady In the land Has twenty nulls on each hand Five and twenty on hands and feet This Is true without deceit. Now read the same properly punctuated : Every lady In the land Has twenty nail»: on euch hand Five,... | |
 | 1893 - 112 páginas
...marry me, Pretty Bobby Shafto! He's my love for evermore, — Pretty Bobby Shafto! Every lady in this land Has twenty nails upon each hand Five and twenty on hands and feet. All this is true without deceit. Great A, little a, Bouncing B! The cat's in the cupboard, And she... | |
 | Chandler Belden Beach, Graeme Mercer Adam - 1901 - 892 páginas
...without deceit. Now read the same properly punctuated : — Every lady in the land Has twenty nails; on each hand Five, and twenty on hands and feet; This is true without deceit. To show how punctuation may sometimes vary the sense of any speaker or writer, the following example... | |
 | Henry T. Loomis - 1902 - 284 páginas
...savage." The next day it appeared in print, "Woman, without her man, would be a savage." The following notice was once read in church: "John Brown having...on hands and feet This is true without deceit. AN EPITAPH-PUNCTUATE TO SUIT. He is an old and experienced man in vice and wickedness he is never found... | |
 | Henry T. Loomis - 1902 - 284 páginas
...savage." The next day it appeared in print, "Woman, without her man, would be a savage." The following notice was once read in church: "John Brown having...on hands and feet This is true without deceit. AN EPITAPH-PUNCTUATE TO SUIT. He is an old and experienced man in vice and wickedness he is never found... | |
 | Frank H. Vizetelly - 1905 - 168 páginas
...the second line, and a comma after the word five in the third line. Thus, the riddle would read: " Every lady in the land Has twenty nails; upon each hand Five, and twenty on hands and feet." Earle says: "The sentence which would be ambiguous without stops is a badly constructed sentence,"... | |
 | George Soulé - 1906 - 794 páginas
...true, and I am sorry for it." 7. 'The prisoner said the witness was a convicted thief." Has twc'iity nails, upon each hand Five, and twenty on hands and feet, This is true without deceit." "I said he was я liar it is true, and I am sorry for it." "The prisoner, said the witness, was a convicted... | |
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Every lady in the land has twenty nails upon each hand Five and twenty on hands and feet this is true without deceit. 
