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Norwolf Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Pink of face----zero articles
Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful . . . pointed of chin, square of jaw.
Zero articles in such contexts occur generally. To my ear, "of" sounds "treated of", which is supposed to be followed "her chin/jaw".
Why is there any determiner preceding?
Would you please do me a favor?
Zero articles in such contexts occur generally. To my ear, "of" sounds "treated of", which is supposed to be followed "her chin/jaw".
Why is there any determiner preceding?
Would you please do me a favor?
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Just an idiomatic construction, I think, now literary. Pointed of chin = pointed-chinned Square of jaw = square-jawed Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H.
- Just an idiomatic construction, I think, now literary.
- Pointed of chin = pointed-chinned Square of jaw = square-jawed Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.
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- , 1850 (not the same preposition but this verse sprung to mind): Who trusted *** was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek'd against his creed
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Just an idiomatic construction, I think, now literary.
Pointed of chin = pointed-chinned
Square of jaw = square-jawed
Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H., 1850 (not the same preposition but this verse sprung to mind):
Pointed of chin = pointed-chinned
Square of jaw = square-jawed
Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H., 1850 (not the same preposition but this verse sprung to mind):
Who trusted *** was love indeed
And love Creation's final law
Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw
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