 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...straw — Grow bigger downwards through the box, — Wlien he that selleth house or land Shows leak in roof or flaw in right, — When haberdashers choose...real grape and coffee-bean, — When lawyers take whit they would give, And doctors give what they would take,— When city fathers eat to live, Save... | |
 | Simon Kerl - 1861 - 372 pages
...best to use the dash after each of them, to show their common dependence on something remote. Ex.—" When lawyers take what they would give, And doctors...live, Save when they fast for conscience' sake,"— etc.—Holmes. This stanza, with seven others like it, depends on a concluding one. 16. The dash is... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 328 pages
...straw — Grow bigger downwards through the box, — When he that selleth house or land Shows leak in roof or flaw in right, — When haberdashers choose...they think, And party leaders all they mean, — When lawyers take what they would give, And doctors give what they would take, — When city fathers eat... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1864 - 444 pages
...straw — Grow bigger downwards through the box, — When he that selleth house or land Shows leak in roof or flaw in right, — When haberdashers choose...window hath the broadest light, — When preachers tell ns all they think, And party leaders all they mean, — When what we pay for, that we drink, From real... | |
 | Simon Kerl - 1864 - 396 pages
...to use the dash after each of them, to show their common dependence on something remote. Ex. — " When lawyers take what they would give, And doctors...what they would take, — "When city fathers eat to Uve, Save when they fast for conscience' sake," — etc. — Holmes. This stanza, with seven others... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes Morison - 1867 - 206 pages
...be placed after each of them, to show their common dependence on the distant concluding portion; as, When lawyers take what they would give, And doctors...fathers eat to live, Save when they fast for conscience sake;—&c. Where several stanzas are dependent on a concluding one. RULE V. Parenthesis. Dashes are... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1868 - 434 pages
...and straw — Grow bigger downward) through the box,— When he that sclletb house or land Shows leak in roof or flaw in right,— When haberdashers choose...leaders all they mean, — When what we pay for, that wo drink, From real grape and coffee-bean, — , When lawyers take what they would give, And doctors... | |
 | Simon Kerl - 1868 - 396 pages
...to use the dash after each of thorn, to show their common dependence on something remote. Ex. — " When lawyers take what they would give, And doctors...city fathers eat to live, Save when they fast for conscience1 sake," — etc. — Holmes. This stanza, with seven others like it, depends on a concluding... | |
 | David Thomas - 1870 - 404 pages
...moralist conceives that " when haberdashers, choose the stand whose window hath the broadest light," and "When preachers tell us all they think, And party leaders all they mean, — •When that we pay for, that we drink, T?rom real grape and coffee bean, — it will be about time to " order... | |
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When legislators keep the law, When banks dispense with bolts and locks, When berries, whortle-, rasp-, and straw-, Grow bigger downwards through the box, — When he that selleth house or land Shows leak in roof or flaw in right, — When haberdashers... 
