"Semicolon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ac torpor; procerum connubiis mixtis nonnihil in Sarmatarum habitum foedantur." In many editions the semicolon is placed not after torpor, but after procerum. The sense of the passage so read is: "The chief men are lazy and stupid, besides being filthy, like all the rest. Intermarriage with ...
— The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus • Tacitus
... The Semicolon is a pause shorter than the Colon; as, The rose is fair'; but it soon fades. Pause the time of counting two, and let the voice fall. Sometimes the voice should rise, as the ...
— Sanders' Union Fourth Reader • Charles W. Sanders
... On page 62, the semicolon following 'rose' has been moved to follow 'suffered'—"... fought, spoke, suffered; ...
— Atheism Among the People • Alphonse de Lamartine
... used as a causal conjunction, e. g., "Do not expect me as I am too uncertain of my time." The word as stands here as a contraction of inasmuch. Substitute a semicolon, or make ...
— Word Study and English Grammar - A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses • Frederick W. Hamilton
... season : sezono; spici. seasonable : gxustatempa. secret : sekreta, kasxita. secretary : sekretario. section : sekcio. secular : monda. sedentary : hejmsida, sida. sediment : fecxo. seed : semo. seem : sxajni. seemly : deca. seize : ekkapti. select : elekti, elelekti. selfish : egoista. semicolon : punktokomo. semolina : tritikajxo. send : sendi, (—"for") venigi. sensation : sensacio, sense : sento, senco. sensitive : sentema. sensual : volupta. sentence : frazo, jugxo, verdikto. sentiment : sento, opinio. sentimental : sentimentala. separate : apart'a, -igi, disigi, malkunigi. ...
— The Esperanto Teacher - A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians • Helen Fryer
... picking his way through his vocabulary, to get at the best expression of his thought, as a well-dressed woman crosses the muddy pavement to reach the opposite sidewalk. It was this natural slight and not unpleasant semicolon pausing of the memory which grew upon him in his years of decline, until it rendered conversation ...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson • Oliver Wendell Holmes |
