Example Sentences

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Colons, semicolons, question marks, and brackets are usually surrounded by spaces - in this text, the modern convention has been followed.The book consistently uses '&c.' where we today use 'etc.' - this has been preserved. 

From A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses by

Time is equal to two Colons and is never placed but at the End of a Sentence, the Sense of which is perfect and compleat; as By me Kings reign, and Princes decree Justice.

From A Short System of English Grammar For the Use of the Boarding School in Worcester (1759) by Bate, Henry

"I do wish Colons were more used; it would at least give me a rest and use up some of you Full-stops for a change."

From All the Way to Fairyland Fairy Stories by Sharp, Evelyn

Colons after "Liechtenstein" and "Helmbrecht" on Contents page, and variant punctuation after the same terms in Chapter headings, were retained.

From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins

Menander, in his Colons, says— The tench, th' elacatene, and the tail-fin of The sea-dog are the best for pickling.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us