"Parenthetic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... something strong about this speaker's conduct, and, before a word could be spoken, rushed to his defence. "He couldn't help himself. He was at the mercy of that shouting audience—a most unmannerly mob!" And then, feeling that he had rather overshot the mark, he added in a parenthetic murmur, "Excellent Christian ...
— Principal Cairns • John Cairns
... all identity (Monument sad to the conflict's intensity). And the analyst said whom the coroner quested, The whole of the heap he had carefully tested, And all he could find in his search analytic (But tables and chairs and such things parenthetic), He wore as he turned, white, black, blue, green, and purple, Was one stone of chutney and two stone ...
— Successful Recitations • Various
... treasure, "which," continues Mr. Prior, "is so great a burthen upon Ireland that I believe there is not in history an instance of any one country paying so large a yearly tribute (!) to another." The parenthetic note of astonishment is Mr. M'Culloch's, who says, with regard to this passage, "it would really seem that in this, as in some other things, the universality and intensity of belief has been directly as the folly and falsehood ...
— The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) - With Notices Of Earlier Irish Famines • John O'Rourke |
