Sentegrams
These sentences, taken from English literature, have been jumbled up like an anagram; see if you can piece them back together.
These sentences, taken from English literature, have been jumbled up like an anagram; see if you can piece them back together.
The sentences below, taken from well-known authors, have been jumbled up. See if you can restore them to their original order, with appropriate punctuation. Just as the word ‘listen’ can make meaningless anagrams (ilnets) and also meaningful ones (tinsel, silent, enlist), so also these jumbled sentences could make more than one intelligible sentence — but which one did our author write?
1. I the a heard of pistol click sharp cocking. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2. you I are believe cannot serious. A. A. Milne
3. why leave you tell joe England did me. P. G. Wodehouse
4. slight of on flush cheek was annoyance there his a. John Buchan
5. Lestrade yell a at instant of the gave terror same. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
6. an you’ve way suspicious and been want I in acting explanation a. Freeman Wills Crofts