acrosticin a sentence
- I'd heard it so many times that I finally worked out an acrostic answer.† (source)
- I also sent her acrostics.† (source)
- Out of respect for Esteban Trueba's mourning, they waited a few months, during which he courted Clara the old-fashioned way, just as he had done with her sister Rosa, without knowing that Clara hated licorice and that acrostics made her laugh.† (source)
- Was it not secretly this that she wanted, and therefore when Mr. Carmichael shrank away from her, as he did at this moment, making off to some corner where he did acrostics endlessly, she did not feel merely snubbed back in her instinct, but made aware of the pettiness of some part of her, and of human relations, how flawed they are, how despicable, how self-seeking, at their best.† (source)
- I had an acrostic once sent to me upon my own name, which I was not at all pleased with.† (source)
- A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;[194]—read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.† (source)
- Leopold Bloom Ellpodbomool Molldopeloob Bollopedoom Old Ollebo, M. P. What acrostic upon the abbreviation of his first name had he (kinetic poet) sent to Miss Marion (Molly) Tweedy on the 14 February 1888?† (source)
- {5}"When this method fails, they have two others more effectual, which the learned among them call acrostics and anagrams.† (source)