Then suddenly changing his mood, he apostrophised the missing beast with the almost tearful reproach, "There!

Sit still, ye fool," he cried lustily, apostrophising the boy who was riding; "if ye git a move on

Or he would apostrophise a cat, "Well, Ma'am, you must find it wearing to carry on your expeditions all night, and to live the life of a domestic saint all day?"

The Earl is well acquainted with our beautiful Devonshire, dearest Mary; he admires country as I do, and he asked so much about it one night last week, that I quite forgot all my intentions about control, and actually talked and apostrophised the Dart as I would to one of my own brothers.

I am afraid some of his addresses (ad Leonoram I mean) have rather erred on the farther side; and that the poet came not much short of a religious indecorum, when he could thus apostrophise a singing-girl: Angelus unicuique suus (sic credite gentes)

There is a pensive state of recollection, in which the mind is disposed to apostrophise the departed objects of its attachment; and, breaking loose from grammatical precision, changes from the 1st to the 3rd, and from the 3rd to the 1st person, just as the random fancy or feeling directs.

I verily believe it's Wright, apostrophising the ocean for Vernon's benefit.

Leaning on his stick and trembling with rage, he apostrophised the young pair in no measured terms.

Then Bellew, leaning out from his casement, as the first bright beams of the rising sun gilded the top-most leaves of the tree, thus apostrophised the unseen singer: "I suppose you will be piping away down in your tree there, old fellow, long after Arcadia has faded out of my life.

"Lie still, can't you?" said Father Payne, apostrophising the stone, and adding, "This is for my pleasure, not for yours."

It is difficult in such poetry not to apostrophise one's subject as Whitman did.