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Example sentences for: penned
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Think what the clever spoonerist can do with “the painting is foul art, ” or perhaps even better, fowl art . Could one resist tampering if Joyce had written “She was a bit of awful lass, ” or if Shakespeare had penned “Thy chatter is but showful wit!
Religious writers in antiquity penned notations that sometimes, we now know, were later absorbed wholesale into the primary text itself.
But far more hilarious are those items penned by the Bard that were never intended to shock or amuse a future evil-minded generation such as ours with indelicate, let alone indecent, suggestiveness, Rex Harrison or no!
When Christopher Columbus disembarked on eastern Cuba on 27 October 1492, he quickly penned a note exclaiming that the land was “the most lovely that eyes have ever seen.”
In 1980, the historian Doris Faber penned a biography of the cigar-smoking Hickok in which she concluded that the two had not in fact been lovers, but 12 years later a biographer of Eleanor, Blanche Wiesen Cook, offered a starkly different assessment.