“Well, that depends completely on the meaning you assign to the word is,” Edmunds asserted. “Surely you see that,” he added.
P. F. Pillby, A Fleet of Scows.
“I am the Henry Fielding of 2015,” claimed Michael. “Or is it Daniel Defoe?”
Benedict Elder, A Cosmopolitan Paradise.
Mr. Dalton was asked to demonstrate the meaning of pithy by writing a pithy sentence. This is what he presented: “Kill all the lawyers.”
Anselm Bligh, A Collection of Miniatures.
Nigel had a single basic goal in life: to waste everyone’s time. Think of it as anarchy operating on the intimate scale.
Sebastian Sleeve, The Random Walk and Other Stories.
Jonathan was decidedly theatrical in the way that he abandoned common sense. He made that the very point of the thing.
Charles Jeffrey Yett, Writing in Miniature—Vol. Three.
common scents
Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
The world might exist.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
Mrs. Calabash spoke as follows. “Now, you listen to me young Cyril. And you let the words burn in. You are not to see this Courtenay woman. Not at all. And you are not to attend that awful theater which allegedly employs her. And you are certainly not to visit the drinking establishments she is known to frequent.”
Ralston Dowd, A Spot of Bother.
The entire crew (but one) was bound to Captain Ahab’s monomania. Its reach, one could say, was universal. And down they all went. But one.
Hampton Fancher, Variations on the Red Barn Con.
The world almost exists.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
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