"Parenthetical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... means nothing more or less than what we should write Hiccup! or Hiccough! so, at least, I have always supposed; misled, perhaps, by Sir Toby's surname, and his parenthetical imprecation on "pickle herring". I do not pretend to be a critic of Shakspeare, and must confess that I do not possess a copy of the "Twelfth Night" but after seeing your correspondent R.R.'s letter (Vol. i., p. 467.), ...
— Notes & Queries,No. 31., Saturday, June 1, 1850 • Various
... i.e. she not being in danger: absolute construction. This parenthetical line is equivalent to a conditional clause—'if she be not in danger, the mere want of light and ...
— Milton's Comus • John Milton
... remember where we are? If the Princess were to put down all Florac's culpabilities in an album, what a ledger it would be—as big as Dr. Portman's Chrysostom!" But this was parenthetical: and after a smile, and a little respite, the young woman proceeded in her ...
— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray
... [7] For this little parenthetical record of my brother's early history the exact chronology of the several items in the case may possible be now irrecoverable; but any error must be of trivial importance. His two pedestrian journeys between London and Liverpool occurred, I believe, in ...
— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey |
