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. flakes and was snow thicker the thicker in falling. George Eliot
2. during tired summer for I the February begin suddenly of grew waiting to. A. A. Milne
3. of at same terror Lestrade instant yell a gave the. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. Mr generally splutter pilgrim with of spoke kind intermittent an. George Eliot
5. the into girl the a and door came room opened. Agatha Christie
6. I and the it door open pushed slowly swung. John Buchan