All the while, from all about the Leader's owner, and out of every corner of the crowded room, had come a spirited punctuation of Kurilla's speechnods and grunts.

[Transcriber's note: punctuation in original.

These critics, whenever they have occasion to copy such authors as Milton and Pope, do not scruple to mutilate their punctuation by putting semicolons or periods for all the colons they find.

[When the pupil can readily answer all the questions on Prosody, and apply the rules of punctuation to any composition in which the points are rightly inserted, he should write out the following exercises, supplying what is required, and correcting what is amiss.

Do I leave the punctuation up to the Home Office?

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.

The sense has generally such a sufficient pause, and will admit of such a punctuation at the close of the second line, and the verse is very often as harmonious too, as if it was calculated for a modern ear: tho' the great number of obsolete words retained would incline us to think the editors had not procured any very extraordinary alteration of the original edition, which we have never seen.

[Footnote 2: Readings and punctuation from Dindorf.]

It was something similarwith a greater valueto that personal punctuation with which skilful readers often divide the text which they translate.