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. parcel wrapped I brown-paper badly was like feeling a. P. G. Wodehouse
2. the a I cocking heard sharp pistol of click. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
3. her do dance you I ever with asked architects. A. A. Milne
4. begin grew during to summer February the tired suddenly of for I waiting. A. A. Milne
5. of wall he the to coat nail hung a outhouse his. Thomas Hardy
6. said surprise man young you me he. Agatha Christie