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“Alright,” he said,
Jarring usage in a historical context, at best.
Mrs. River had gone
Rivers
didn’t need to consider question this long.
your sojourn to Hell’s Kitchen
A sojourn is not a journey. It is the opposite of a journey.
“A feller’s gotta his keep his
the watercolors of that rebellious French impressionist Claude Monet.
Who painted in oils.
I heated a glycerol bath to 130 degrees and plunged the test tube inside, quickly raising the temperature to 150 degrees.
Seems to contradict the second law of thermodynamics, unless I'm misunderstanding.
it’s you Miss Bly,”
Vocative comma required.
Mrs. Rivers continued diatribe,
all that happened since last we met,
had happened
it tapered toward the top like a medieval battlement.
Turret.
“How about a lovely game of whist?”
With three players?
two-hundred dollars
no hyphen
The difference, I realized as we climbed the steps to the shaded veranda, is
was
something I may have missed, some connection I’d failed
might
a kiln in which they forged bricks
You don't "forge" bricks.
I’ll know yer business boy
Vocative comma
Burlesque Troop”
Troupe
straight-forward
One word, no hyphen
“Oh, sorry Harry.”
Vocative comma
traces of the die
dye
“She would come to house
eight-hundred and forty-three
No to the first hyphen, yes to the second.
John Cockerill”—that was Nellie’s editor at The World—will certainly
Missing quotation mark
“Please Robert,
the Bender’s kitchen table.
Benders'
The main thing is that Mr. Hyde would no longer terrorize
was that
I’ll get you straightaway.
straight away
