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. door a the and came girl into room opened the. Agatha Christie
2. possibly I thing tell fraud a was can’t the her whole. P. G. Wodehouse
3. little a but is that nothing over sly fox there spy. Baroness Orczy
4. replied perfect in man English the. Agatha Christie
5. sighed scandal these goes villages in that the on Jeremy. A. A. Milne
6. wrapped badly I a like was parcel feeling brown-paper. P. G. Wodehouse