20 examples of apostrophises in sentences

Herrick, mindful of its associations, thus apostrophises Venus: "Goddess, I do love a girl, Ruby lipp'd and toothed like pearl; If so be I may but prove Lucky in this maid I love, I will promise there shall be Myrtles offered up to thee.

Then Phil Khamis stepped on the platform, incarnating in his own proper person the poet's apostrophised Greek boy: "Stay, are we doing you wrong, Young fellow from Socrates' land?

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)

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

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.

[Furor Poeticus apostrophises Apollo, the Muses, &c., who are not present.

Such, among others, are various kinds of paroquets, the blue pigeon, called here the pigeon of Holland, and the wandering and majestic white bird of the Tropic, which Madame de la Tour thus apostrophised: SONNET TO THE WHITE BIRD OF THE TROPIC.

Sometimes, contemplating it as a monument of her benevolence, he kissed its trunk, and apostrophised it in terms of the most passionate regret; and, indeed I have myself gazed upon it with more emotion and more veneration than upon the triumphal arches of Rome.

And the interruptions, the clamour, the apostrophising, more highly coloured than courteous!

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.

"Now, talking of style, I will admit that the eternal apostrophising of God and the incessant quoting from the New Testament is tiresome to the last degree, and seriously prejudices the value of the 'Confessions' as considered from the artistic standpoint.

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

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.

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

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?"

YORICK, a jester at the court of Denmark, whose skull Hamlet apostrophises in the churchyard; also a sinister jester in "Tristram Shandy.

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.

and 'Hi! you girl!' shouted in an imperious scream, is the civillest mode of apostrophising those at a distance from them; more frequently it is 'You niggar, you hear?

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

20 examples of  apostrophises  in sentences