Example sentences for: xxi
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In a review of The Endangered English Dictionary [XXI, 1,22], we misattributed authorship of Poplollies and Bellibones . As many readers probably know because the book is in their libraries, Poplollies and Bellibones is the work of Susan Kelz Sperling.
The Editor's comments on ...prejudice against Negroes in many Western societies... [XXI, 3, 9] were apt but somewhat incomplete.
An arresting one occurs in A Passage to India (Chapter XXI) in which Forster describes a small building as “a flimsy and frivolous erection,” while in The Mayor of Casterbridge (Chapter XVI) the Mayor himself “beheld the unattractive exterior of Farfrae's erection.”
In XXII, 2 you printed a letter from me regarding Charles Stough's article, Insulting Nicknames Give Journalists Something to Be Proud of [XXI,4].
In your review of The New York Public Library Writers Guide to Style and Usage [XXI, 2], you mention looking in vain for wisdom regarding the use of the serial (or series, as I've always called it) comma.
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