I have seen Tory acrostics and Whig anagrams, and do not quarrel with either of them because they are Whigs or Tories, but because they are anagrams and acrostics.
Can there be any reason but laziness, and want of application, that makes him never succeed in anything, except in answering riddles and acrostics in the papers?
Barbara and Sydney lived upon thoseacrostics in their travelling bags till they reached Folkestone, and had grown intimate over them.
As a foretaste, Johnny produced from the bag he still carried strapped on his shoulder, a packet of acrostics addressed to Miss Barbara Brownlow, and a smaller envelope for Janet.
Simple Acrostics There are "Simple Acrostics" and "Double Acrostics.
Acrostics (Triple) are formed on the same plan, three names being indicated by the initial, central, and final letters of the selected words.
Without going further with this matter, I may say here that the book arrived presently, and between us we did work out a considerable number of the claimed acrostics by following the rules laid down.
He had failed on the acrostics at first; but more recently he had understood the rule, and had been able to work out several Bacon signatures.
Acrostics are too hard, because one is hampered by keeping to the letters of the girls' names," objected Honor.
I was going to make a nice little series of acrostics on all of your names.
Double acrostics are such as are so constructed, that not only initial letters of the lines, but also the middle or last letters, form words.
One of the most remarkable acrostics was contained in the verses cited by Lactantius and Eusebius in the 4th century, and attributed to the Erythraean sibyl, the initial letters of which form the words 'Insous Arist.
But unfortunately either these acrostics do not work out, or else the rules are so loose that similar acrostics can be found anywhere, in modern books or pamphlets, and even on the gravestones of our ancestors.
If acrostics were as big a thing as chess, then we should have masters who would produce masterpieces.
What you said about acrostics interested me," he began.
Our acrostics are a trifle smarter, but all run into one form.
Bullies might break Moses's head in this world, but in the next he would sit on a gold chair in Paradise among the saints and sing exegetical acrostics to all eternity.
He wrote after the mediaeval model--with a profusion of acrostics and double rhyming--not with the bald duplications of primitive Hebrew poetry.
I do not know which of Lamb's acrostics was the one in question.
Williams, Mrs. See Letters and Emma Isola and theacrostics Wilson, John, his biography Wilson, Walter.
The two friends were probably Edward Hogg and Cecilia Catherine Lawton, on whose names Lamb wrote acrostics (see Vol.
There is, however, an interesting though scarcely more fruitful problem presented by the possible existence of two acrosticsin the course of the poem.
Alphabetical acrostics are not unknown elsewhere in the Old Testament; there are several instances of them in the Psalms.
It would have been more to our taste if the poem had ended here, if there had been no remaining letters in the Hebrew alphabet to permit the extension of the acrostics beyond the point we have now reached.
But the arguments of the Comedies of Plautus are in form of acrostics, and acrostics occur in the original Hebrew of the 'Book of Psalms'.
Footnote 3: was called] [Footnote 4: The invention of Acrosticsis attributed to Porphyrius Optatianus, a writer of the 4th century.
We want to be quite well to tackle double acrostics and to have access to books.
My charades were not so elegant as some arranged by Miss Clark, and not so easily found out; and my double acrostics were not so subtle as those given in competition nowadays, but they were in the eighties reckoned excellent.
My fame had reached the ears of Mrs. Alfred Watts (nee Giles), who spent her early colonial life on Kangaroo Island, and she asked me to write some double acrostics for the poor incurables.
The acrostics lay in a great white heap on Mr. Burrows' desk, not a name written on any of them.
It might be incredible that so great a genius as Boccaccio could have lent himself to these literary fashions; yet one of the most gigantic of acrostics may be seen in his works; it is a poem of fifty cantos!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acrostics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
