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No explanation or clue could be obtained from the patient, who continued to apostrophise the portrait in disconnected phrase, and to utter howls of agony and lamentation.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various

He didn't apostrophise it, for he was no great scholar.

From Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty by Dickens, Charles

What wonder then that she should lyrically apostrophise "The Wink" in laudatory numbers?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 24, 1891 by Various

“Pail’s full,” cried Archy; and the men yelled with delight, their officer vainly trying to control his own mirth as Dick began to pat and apostrophise the cow.

From Cutlass and Cudgel by Schonberg, J.

Miss Nugent, you, that are so quick, can't but know I would apostrophise Miss Broadhurst that is, but that won't be long so, I hope.

From The Absentee by Edgeworth, Maria