Once again I’m playing around with words, this time with pangrams. A pangram is a sentence or phrase that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet. I found all of the following in various public domain works in gutenberg.org. The length and source is provided for each. Feel free to add your own in the comments, although if they’re already well-known they’re probably not worth adding. Shorter is better, of course.<\/p>\n
(43) William Jex quickly caught five dozen Republicans
\nfrom A COLLECTION OF SALUTATORY, VALEDICTORY AND
\nOTHER ADDRESSES DELIVERED AT THE FIRST FIVE COMMENCEMENTS OF THE FEMALE
\nSTENOGRAPHIC AND TYPEWRITING CLASS OF THE GENERAL SOCIETY
\nOF MECHANICS AND TRADESMEN OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
\nW.L. MASON 1892
\nThis one was a well-known typist’s exercise as far back as 1892<\/p>\n
(86) Ivory Knife Handles, with Portraits of Queen Elizabeth and James I. Englis (110) “You \u2014 you \u2014 ” and Jack glanced at his father perplexedly; “you exhibited him in the store!” he said. ” Why, yes, as a great Velasquez I had just bought. (114) John Knox.–His uncompromising character.–Knox’s interview with Here are a couple from more widely regarded sources of literature:<\/p>\n (180) “I am in a manner bound to do so as the representative of the attorney of the late Sir Joseph Mason ; and by Heavens, Mr. Cooke, I’ll do my duty!” “I dare say you’re right,” said Mr. Crabwitz, mixing a quarter of a glass more brandy-and- water. (172) In the narrow side-street dance rooms of Florence and in the great avenue restaurants of Paris they were performing exactly the same gyrations\u2014wiggle, squirm, shake. And over all the American jazz music boomed. Once again I’m playing around with words, this time with pangrams. A pangram is a sentence or phrase that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet. I found all of the following in various public domain works in gutenberg.org. The length and source is provided for each. Feel free to add your own in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThe “Milkmaid Cup”
\nSaxon Brooch
\nfrom Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages<\/em> by Julia De Wolf Addison (Table of contents)<\/p>\n
\nfrom Over The Pass<\/em> by Frederick Palmer<\/p>\n
\nMary.–His sternness subdued.–The four Maries.–Queen Elizabeth’s
\ninsincerity.
\nfrom Mary Queen of Scots, Makers of History<\/em> by Jacob Abbot<\/p>\n
\nOrley Farm<\/em> by Anthony Trollope<\/p>\n
\nOne Baske<\/em>t by Edna Ferber<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"