"Question mark" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... way of the buzzard—that shifting black question mark which punctuates a Southern sky. In the woods a shoat or a sheep or a horse lies down to die. At once, coming seemingly out of nowhere, appears a black spot, up five hundred feet or a thousand in the air. In broad loops and swirls this dot swings round and round and ...
— The Escape of Mr. Trimm - His Plight and other Plights • Irvin S. Cobb
... little cowpuncher was gazing wistfully at the hitching-post. His face was twisted pathetically to a question mark. It was as though he thought he could conjure from the post the secret of Clay's disappearance. Where had he gone from here? And where was ...
— The Big-Town Round-Up • William MacLeod Raine
... made rather a hash of that awfuul wurd extraorordinnaryk? in the middle of a woRd like thaton N-e gets quite lost? 2hy do I keep putting questionmarks instead of fulstopSI wonder. Now you see i have put a fulllstop instead Of a question mark it nevvvver reins but ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, July 28th, 1920 • Various
... humor or irony 97. The Apostrophe: a In contractions; b To form the possessive; c To form the possessive of nouns ending in s; d Not used with personal possessive pronouns; e To form the plural of certain signs and letters 98. The Question Mark: a After a direct question; b Not followed by a comma within a sentence; c In parentheses to express uncertainty; d Not used to label irony; e The Exclamation Point 99. EXERCISE ...
— The Century Handbook of Writing • Garland Greever
... author's consistent use of a lower-case letter following an exclamation point or a question mark inside ...
— Trail's End • George W. Ogden |
