A passage of apostrophic grandeur.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

In one breath, he disputed her convictions about the afterlife and decried the "apostrophic" style that, now authoring.    From Wordnik.com.  ['A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_] Reference

The deformation helps us wonder: does the apostrophic act represent a strange fantasy about art's salvific power?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deforming Keat's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'] Reference

Yet, just before, the apostrophic naming of nature — the encounter with language's primal otherness — finds so relaxed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference

Her mind straightway filled up the two letters concealed by apostrophic reserve, and I read in her assenting eyes that she knew Jawkins was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Snobs] Reference

Not surprisingly, just as Hemans had critiqued Byron for shoddiness and sophistry in The Sceptic, Byron criticized this poem for its rhetoric ( "too stiltified and apostrophic") and its logic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scepticism and Its Costs: Hemans's Reading of Byron] Reference

But in the present apostrophic and figurative context — in a phrasing addressed to the essence of autumn, one season back — logic is eroded by a more anxious reach for visionary prognosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference

In a June 1820 letter to John Murray, Hemans's publisher as well as his own, Byron responded this way to The Sceptic: Mrs. Hemans is a poet also – but too stilted, & apostrophic – & quite wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  ['A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_] Reference

The apostrophic utterance that He cannot be supposed to have clothed his Divinity in the body of one of a race that an American Congress would not admit to citizenship is purely emotional and without logical consequence….    From Wordnik.com.  [A Country Called AMREEKA] Reference

Between first and third person, between grammatical interjection and descriptive projection — in other words, between the merely expressive "O (h)" and its full-blown apostrophic uptake — comes the immediate middle term of formalized address.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference

"O" of sheer pre-apostrophic exclamation (at the core of "Lo!" before it) appears to suggest that pure audition might — across the caesura, the epistemological gap itself — become cognition as smoothly as the phonetic ligature at "listen: O" releases the verbal alter ego of "(k) n-ow.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference

… The obscuration of repeated beginnings, shifting personae, oblique calls, cries to be heard, recommenced purifications, and apostrophic petitions for assistance reflect the same “slow tongue” of Moses, the “unclean lips” of Isiah, the demur of Jeremiah, and the mutism of Ezekiel.    From Wordnik.com.  [dorveille | Goblin Mercantile Exchange] Reference

Mrs. Hemans is a poet also, but too stiltified and apostrophic, -- and quite wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference

The sight of the pair moved Broffin to speech apostrophic -- when the two were out of earshot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price] Reference

The address was simply as before: "To Edward Warfield;" and so to the apostrophic commencement: "Stranger!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness] Reference

Dem Apples doesn't have to be a mere repository of apostrophic debates about liberalism and ironically amusing comments by.    From Wordnik.com.  [sisu] Reference

Her mind straightway filled up the two letters concealed by apostrophic reserve, and I read in her assenting eyes that she knew Jawkins was a Snob.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Snobs] Reference

Dem Apples doesn't have to be a mere repository of apostrophic debates about liberalism and ironically amusing comments by Sissy Willis at sisu puts on her psychological hat in this excellent post.    From Wordnik.com.  [sisu] Reference

Everywhere there is need for a mystic doctrine, which in itself is neither hypnotism nor hysteria, and in its expression is neither superlative nor apostrophic, lest the hungered minds of men die of surfeit following on starvation.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Prayer and The Contemplative Life] Reference

"We have but one life to live, and we'll live it together, Margery, girl, for better or for worse," was his apostrophic declaration, made while he was turning into Shawnee Street a few doors from his lodgings; and a minute later he was opening the Widow Holcomb's gate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price] Reference

Land of the antelopes, of the wild gemsbok, and the gentle gazelle, land of the gigantic crocodile and huge river-horse, land teeming with animal life, and, last in the list of my apostrophic appellations -- last, and that which must grieve the heart to pronounce it, land of the slave!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Slaves] Reference

" This, of course, is not for purposes of ornamentation, although these apostrophic clusters possess an understated, overlooked beauty that transcends the merely chic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]

A didactic, exegetical, or apostrophic, than of a strictly devotional character, and which are better adapted to be silently treasured up in the memory than uttered in vocal harmony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacred Poems and Hymns] Reference

They also perspired because they were nerve-racked, because their ability to board the flight had been in question to the very last moment; because recent history, already somewhat of a trial for them, had really gotten out of hand after the evening when that -nun" most deserving of apostrophic disclaimer-the imposter, the man-had reappeared at their convent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]

(For whom is The Sceptic "too ... apostrophic"?).    From Wordnik.com.  ['A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_] Reference

The consequences could be apostrophic! (.    From Wordnik.com.  [ccfinlay: yhlee notes that:There are never more th] Reference