The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

words removed
151,495
marks left
29,169
words a sentence
40.2
most used mark
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Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

Its punctuation twin, the closest fingerprint on the shelf: On the Nature of Things, Titus Lucretius Carus. More twins

T. Smollett on the shelf

3 books by T. Smollett are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 3rd closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for George Gordon Byron Byron. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, T. Smollett's punctuation is closest to John William Polidori's.

T. Smollett's average fingerprint

T. Smollett on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookT. Smollett's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons15.712.97.2
Commas97.397.676.6
Colons1.81.61.6
Exclamation marks2.32.62.8
Question marks1.11.13.7
Words per sentence40.239.117.0
Dialogue22%20%22%

Every mark in reading order, left to right, top to bottom. Sentence endings are pink.

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