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Rh 3. Decapitable sentences.

Perhaps the most exasperating form is that of the sentence that keeps on prolonging itself by additional phrases, each joint of which gives the reader hopes of a full stop.

Conscious repetition of a word or phrase has been discussed in Part I (Airs and Graces): in the following examples the