"Interrogation point" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that Flamel was looking at him with the smile that was like an interrogation point. "I didn't know you cared for this kind ...
— The Touchstone • Edith Wharton
... with her, and-in fact she declines to recognise me." The soul of the honest miner flamed out; he laid his hand threateningly upon his pistol, jerked himself stiff, glared a moment at me with the look of a tiger, and hurled this question at my head as if it had been an iron interrogation point: "W'at a' yer ...
— The Fiend's Delight • Dod Grile
... interrogation point! And beneath that: Where is Michael Petroff? An appeal to the public! But look at this, in the little Feuilleton: Michael Petroff, a Captain in the Russian army, has just completed his six-volume work on Shooting Stars. All the scientific journals are praising the ...
— The German Classics, v. 20 - Masterpieces of German Literature • Various
... one big interrogation point. "Why! I don't—" she began, but was interrupted by a kiss right ...
— Polly of the Hospital Staff • Emma C. Dowd
... dictionaries. When David "cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!" [442] he uttered two exclamations, but they included all his words. He did not, like my critic above, set off his first word with an interrogation point, or any other point. But, says Peirce, "These words are used in exclaiming, and are what all know them to be, exclamations; as I call them. May I not call them what they are?"—Ibid. Yes, truly. But to exclaim is to cry out, and consequently ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown |
