"The ungraceful parenthesis which follows, had far better have been avoided."Ib., p. 215.

Come, Wench, a kiss between each point; kiss close, it is a sweet Parenthesis.

The reader will do well in the first place to pass over this very clumsy parenthesis in the original; and return to it after he has finished the rest of the paragraph.

And so with Hinze's deferential bearing, complimentary parentheses, and worshipful tones, which seem to some like the over-acting of a part in a comedy.

Here goes and comes are necessarily made singular, the former agreeing with torch and the latter with tree; and, if the other nouns, which are like an explanatory parenthesis, are nominatives, as they appear to me to be, they must be subjects of go and come understood.

I am afraid I have indulged in a somewhat extensive parenthesis, but my pen has run away with me, and now it must come back to the old-fashioned High Street shop where I lingered a few paragraphs back.

If veracity, on this point, is worth any thing, it is a pity that in both books there are so many points which, like the foregoing parenthesis, belie this profession.

Can it be said that this is only an historic parenthesis?

In those long sentences rich in involved parenthesis, like a box of boxes one within another, and padded out like roast geese stuffed with apples, it is really the memory that is chiefly taxed; while it is the understanding and the judgment which should be called into play, instead of having their activity thereby actually hindered and weakened.

Dinner was an ugly little parenthesis between two still uglier clauses of a tee-totally ugly sentence.

And the passenger more quietly answers back: "Hello, Raoul, is that you?" M. Innerarity replied, with a profane parenthesis, that it was he.

Sad and useless parenthesis!

Dinner was an ugly little parenthesis between two still uglier clauses of a tee-totally ugly sentence.

I guess it's hers this time, by your putting her in that anxious parenthesis.

Sad and useless parenthesis!

Let us grant here one brief parenthesis of respect and astonishment to the scientific knowledge and philological acumen of a distinguished graduate of Yale College, and member of Congress, whom we encountered on our travels.