Crossword-Solution: APOSTROPHISE 12 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

When I stalked out like that from the library in fine mood to moralise and apostrophise heaven in a way that would no doubt have looked fine upon these pages, one sprightly damsel, just as the gloomy rhetoric was bursting from my lips, thrust a flower under my nose whose scent brought on a violent attack of sneezing, her companions joining hands and dancing round me while they imitated my agony.

But, what is this rubbing against me, as I apostrophise Madame Doche? It is another heated infant with a calf upon his head.

Down by the Docks, the placards in the shops apostrophise the customer, knowing him familiarly beforehand, as, ‘Look here, Jack!’ ‘Here’s your sort, my lad!’ ‘Try our sea-going mixed, at two and nine!’ ‘The right kit for the British tar!’ ‘Ship ahoy!’ ‘Splice the main-brace, brother!’ ‘Come, cheer up, my lads.

Cleeve to apostrophise him in thoughts that paraphrased the quaint lines of Heine's _Lieb' Liebchen_:-- 'Dear my love, press thy hand to my breast, and tell If thou tracest the knocks in that narrow cell; A carpenter dwells there; cunning is he, And slyly he's shaping a coffin for me!' Lady Constantine was disturbed by a break in the organist's meandering practice, and raising her head she saw a person standing by the player.

Though why a creature such as he was should go out of his way to apostrophise, in such a manner, a publicist of Mr Lessingham’s eminence, surpassed my comprehension.