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Blackadder vocabulary
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fullstop
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Definition:the punctuation mark "." (period)"
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Queen: So I will sign this ransom, but it must be the last. (writing the ransom order) Absolutely the last. Final. Full stop. Never again. Cross my heart and hope to die.
BBC. Blackadder, season 2: Chains
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"It's cold, full stop." Zemaye said.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Americanah, p.498 (2013)
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His small but childish handwriting straggled up and down the page, shedding first its capital letters and finally even its full stops
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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it was a pity to kill it, you cruel naughty creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.James Joyce. Ulysses
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The redhead reacted. Her full-stops lengthened into commas. “But Papa, look.”
Markus Zusak. The Book Thief (2007)
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