But, “shining and tall and fair and straight,” because all the connectives are expressed.
“To the unlearned, punctuation is a matter of chance.”
“Then poor Cordelia!
And yet not so; since, I am sure, my love ’s
More richer than my tongue.”
“Then Miss Gunns smiled stiffly, and thought what a pity it was that these rich country people, who could afford to buy such good clothes (really Miss Nancy’s lace and silk were very costly), should be brought up in utter ignorance and vulgarity.”
“Goneril,
Our eldest born, speak first.”
“The ridges being taken, the troops advanced a thousand yards.”
“In the early years of this century, such a linen weaver, named Silas Marner, worked at his vocation, in a stone cottage that stood among the nutty hedgerows near the village of Raveloe, and not far from the edge of a deserted stone-pit.”
“Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor;
Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despis’d!”
“In the bitterness of his wounded spirit, he said to himself, ‘She will cast me off too.’”
“But about the Christmas of the fifteenth year a second great change came over Marner’s life, and his history became blent in a singular manner with the life of his neighbors.”