“Who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?”—Milton.
“Are you good men and true?”—Shakespeare.
EXCLAMATION POINT.
Rule I. Strong Emotion.—The exclamation point is used after expressions denoting strong emotion.
EXAMPLES.
“Discipline of mind! say rather starvation, confinement, torture, annihilation.”—Macaulay.
“My valor is certainly going! it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palms of my hands.”—Sheridan.
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child!”—Shakespeare.