• Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

  Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) Ch. 22

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1835-1910
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1. whenever
2. literary
3. sentence
4. atlantic
5. going
6. other

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Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth. by : Mark Twain

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