Example sentences for: pepys

How can you use “pepys” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Pepys writes, just as we might say but ought not write, “..

  • Samuel Pepys, never confused by an American schoolmarm, invariably, so far as I have found, used I instead of me when the pronoun was combined with another pronoun or noun as the object of a verb or preposition.

  • ”As for lay for lie , whose force of usage has by now almost won acceptance into the standard language, we find in Pepys's entry for June 22, 1667: “..

  • There are also in Pepys's Diary words and phrases that have been admitted to our standard language but that still sound a bit colloquial.

  • as in “That ol' boy like to of killed hisself” or in Pepys's entry for April 14, 1660:“.


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