apostrophizing love

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  • verb Present participle of apostrophize.

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Examples

  • Once, through a canvas wall, she heard a man apostrophizing gorgeously, and felt sure that it was Del

    CHAPTER 3 2010

  • There under the pen name “Meg Merrilies,” she began publishing her breathily apostrophizing poetry—“San Francisco, city of mists and dreams!”

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • There under the pen name “Meg Merrilies,” she began publishing her breathily apostrophizing poetry—“San Francisco, city of mists and dreams!”

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • And the voice of the tribal priest will be heard, apostrophizing this huge graffito.

    The Existential Clown 2008

  • And the voice of the tribal priest will be heard, apostrophizing this huge graffito.

    The Existential Clown 2008

  • What are you looking in at the door for? — ‘continued Walter, apostrophizing an old gentleman with a powdered head (inaudibly to him of course), who was staring at a ship’s telescope with all his might and main.

    Dombey and Son 2007

  • ‘Why, damme, Sir,’ said the Major, rolling his lobster eyes round and round Princess’s Place, and apostrophizing its fragrant air, ‘six months ago, the woman loved the ground Josh Bagstock walked on.

    Dombey and Son 2007

  • ‘Thinks of a birdcage, afore me!’ cried the old woman, apostrophizing the ceiling.

    Dombey and Son 2007

  • Two days later he came away apostrophizing modern manners.

    A Woman of Thirty 2007

  • At length the Major being released from his fit, went one Saturday growling down to Brighton, with the native behind him; apostrophizing Miss

    Dombey and Son 2007

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