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• “My sister, mayhap, quoth my uncle Toby, does not choose to let a man come so near her * * * *” Make this dash,——‘tis an Aposiopesis.—Take the dash away, and write Backside,—’tis Bawdy.
• "Have fire in this garret before night or — / " He stopped because he could not go on. It was an aposiopesis of the purest kind.
• This somewhat abrupt ending (or aposiopesis) is caused by a previous movement from the figure on the bed.