We have all seen John Charteris's portraits, and most of us have read his booksor at least, the volume entitled In Old Lichfield, which caused the Lichfield Courier-Herald to apostrophize its author as a "Child of Genius!

I think this vein may be further opened; Peter Pindar hath very prettily apostrophized a fly; Burns hath his mouse and his louse; Coleridge, less successfully, hath made overtures of intimacy to a jackass,therein only following at unresembling distance Sterne and greater Cervantes.

I care not what view you take of humanity, whether you have Calvinistic tendencies and believe in the total depravity of infants, or whether you are a disciple of Wordsworth and apostrophize the child as a "Mighty prophet!

Turning for contrast to the glaciers, which he apostrophizes in the next line.

He apostrophizes his brain, telling it to set to work.

"Great man!" apostrophizes the Czar, "I would give half of my kingdom to learn from thee how to govern the other half."

V. speak to, address, accost, make up to, apostrophize, appeal to, invoke; ball, salute; call to, halloo. take aside, take by the button; talk to in private.

Soliloquy N. soliloquy, monologue, apostrophe; monology^. V. Soliloquize; say to oneself, talk to oneself; say aside, think aloud, apostrophize.

After an actor has been beheaded, he has been known to pickup the false head and apostrophize it while making his exit from the stage.

A brilliant idea striking him at that moment, he apostrophized the infant in the touching words: By by, baby bunting, Daddy's gone a-hunting, To get a little rabbit skin To wrap the baby bunting in.

" I had by this time returned to the fireplace, and, reseating myself, began to apostrophize my magnificent black Newfoundland, who, having partaken of my dinner, was following the advice and example of Abernethy, and sleeping on the rug, as it digested.

" I am aware my English version is tame and insipid, though, perhaps, not quite as much so as a translation I once met with of the sentence with which it was said Timoleon, Duc de Brissac, used to apostrophize himself before the looking-glass every morning.

On the crew of the Flora being treated to see Othello at the Portsmouth Theatre, Cassio's silly speech proved an exquisite relish to the audience, where he apostrophizes heaven, "Forgive us our sins," and endeavours to persuade his companion that he is sober.

"This divine release from the common ways of men can be found only through art," Stroganoff would apostrophize.

"Now fwhat the divvle will that be?" he rasped, pausing, torch in hand, to apostrophize his fireman.

True it is that Addison apostrophizes liberty as a Goddess, heavenly bright!

It has become, indeed, in the words of Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the wittiest of partitions, and the modern Pyramus may apostrophize it in grateful earnest: "Thou wall, O wall, O sweet and lovely wall ... Thanks, courteous wall.

In the concluding stanza of the King's Quair, a work composed by the Scottish King shortly before his return to his kingdom, he apostrophizes Gower and Chaucer as his dear masters, who sat upon the highest steps of rhetoric, and whose genius as poets, orators, and moralists, entitled them to receive the most exalted honour.

Vasanta Ragini, 'the music of springtime,' was normally apostrophized as a lovely lady, yet because springtime suggested lovers, she was shown in painting as if she were Krishna dancing with a vase of flowers, holding a wand in his hand or celebrating the spring fertility festival.

Another Arabian poet apostrophizes "the maid of Okaib, who has haunches like sand-hills, whence her body rises like a palm-tree."

We shall meet this Medium again, but for the present we will leave him, after pausing for a minute over his business card, which, after stating his terms in prosaic dollars and cents, thus apostrophizes his clientele: "From the bright stars, And viewless air Sweet Spirit, if thy home be there, Answer me.

Oh, whose shall be the potent hand To give that touch informing, And make thee rise, O Southern Land, To life and poesy warming?" Mrs. O'Doherty herself, who long lived in that Queensland which she thus apostrophized, helped in no uncertain way to answer her own question.

This law is none other than that holy form which a modern poet thus apostrophizes: Stern lawgiver!

Frank does not apostrophize as "dear" any other public resort; indeed, he turns away his head, and we walk on without uttering a word for a few moments.

She did not apostrophize her fate, she did not weep; few real women do in the access of calamity, or when there is anything else to be done.