What is "apostrophizing"

Usage examples of "apostrophizing".

She had flirted audaciously during the day with some young Englishmen and Canadians of her acquaintance, and after passing the La Chine Rapids she had taken the hearts of all the men by springing suddenly to her feet, apostrophizing the tumult with a charming attitude, and warbling a delicious bit of song.

The Viscount was wearing the coat, the buckskin breeches, and the top boots which were the correct morning-attire for any gentleman sojourning in the country, but a certain elegance, deriving from the cut of his coat, and the arrangement of his neckcloth, gave his father an excuse for apostrophizing him as a damned dandy.

Pumblechook, apostrophizing the fowl in the dish, "when you was a young fledgling, what was in store for you.

Wemmick was again apostrophizing), "and you said you could write Greek.

Pumblechook, apostrophizing the fowl in the dish, “when you was a young fledgling, what was in store for you.

Wemmick was again apostrophizing), “and you said you could write Greek.

The emphasis with which he spoke that word caused his chair, on the edge of which he was sitting, to tilt up under him so that he slid under the table, losing the vision of that figure in helmet and field-grey which he had been apostrophizing.