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. in want don’t murder be a it trial mixed you up to take I. Freeman Wills Crofts
2. a acting I an you’ve explanation in way been suspicious want and. Freeman Wills Crofts
3. did not I me what say did deserve that of you. Jane Austen
4. generally splutter of pilgrim an with spoke kind Mr intermittent. George Eliot
5. to nail outhouse coat a the his hung of he wall. Thomas Hardy
6. of very way disposing a clever the of pistol. Agatha Christie