He always filled up pauses with a laugh.

He pauses on the curb.

Or an ice wagon pauses in its round, and while the man is gone there is a pleasant thieving of bits of ice.

But in some of the lines the pauses of punctuation do not come at the right points to make smooth reading: From the same source I have not taken

"I have heard it demonstrated in the pauses of a concert," wrote Lowell afterward, "that I was utterly incompetent to have written anything of the kind.

Then he bent close to the injured man and listened intently while Coquenil, speaking with an effort and with frequent pauses, related briefly what had happened.

Pain is not the object of contrivanceno anatomist ever dreamt of explaining any organ of the body on the principle of the thumb screw; it is itself productive of good; it is seldom both violent, and long continued; and then its pauses and intermissions become positive pleasures.

" He spoke his next words very slowly, with little pauses.

"To render pauses pleasing and expressive, they must not only be made in the right place, but also accompanied with a proper tone of voice.

"So the rests and pauses, between sentences and their parts, are marked by points.

RULE II.GREATER PAUSES.

UNDER RULE II.GREATER PAUSES.

5.To allow the period of abbreviation to supersede all other points wherever it occurs, as authors generally have done, is sometimes plainly objectionable; but, on the other hand, to suppose double points to be always necessary wherever abbreviations or Roman numbers have pauses less than final, would sometimes seem more nice than wise, as in the case of Biblical and other references.

In such references, numbers are very frequently pointed with the period, with scarcely any regard to the pauses required in the reading; as, "DIADEM, Job 29.

The Dash is mostly used to denote an unexpected or emphatic pause, of variable length; but sometimes it is a sign of faltering, or of the irregular stops of one who hesitates in speaking: as, "Then, after many pauses, and inarticulate sounds, he said: 'He was very sorry for it, was extremely concerned it should happen sobutait was necessarya'

RULE I.ABRUPT PAUSES.

RULE II.EMPHATIC PAUSES.

UNDER RULE I.ABRUPT PAUSES.

UNDER RULE II.EMPHATIC PAUSES.

" [FORMULE.Not proper, because the pauses after M and Malvolio seem not to be sufficiently indicated here.

"Punctuation is the dividing of sentences, and the words of sentences, by points for pauses.

If the points are to be put where the pauses naturally occur, here should be a comma after sensibility; and, if I mistake not, it would be more consonant with current usage to set one there.

It gives us such punctuation as comports neither with the sense of three or more words in the same construction, nor with the pauses which they require in reading.

Then follows a period of opposition of these motions, during which time the valve pauses momentarily, this corresponding to the time when the port is fully open.

If read aloud with pauses for the correspondent's reply, the perfect letter would make perfect conversation.