“‘He has got no good red blood in his body,’ said Sir James.
‘No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses,’ said Mrs Cadwallader.”
—George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1871-72.
“‘He has got no good red blood in his body,’ said Sir James.
‘No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses,’ said Mrs Cadwallader.”
—George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1871-72.
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“I thought a bloody semicolon was for a long pause.”
–Flannery O’Connor