The entry for 755, describing how Cynewulf took the kingship of Wessex from Sigebehrt, is far longer than the surrounding entries, and includes direct speech quotations from the participants in those events.
But she's a few years off in ascribing the first use of direct-speech quotation marks to "someone" in 1714.
Reported speech Direct quotations of story characters, as in "she said 'don't do that!'" but NOT "she said not to do that".
Mr Zeng, in turn, often peppers his speeches with quotations from Mr Hu.
He was a cultivated man - he could quote liberally from Shakespeare by memory - and he often filled his speeches with quotations from the English poets.
On Thursday, Mr. Kent opened his speech with a quotation from a German poet, Heinrich Heine, who converted to Christianity from Judaism.
Mr. Bush included in his speech a lengthy quotation from a 1946 New York Times article describing the occupation of postwar Germany, some two years before the Marshall Plan began pouring billions of dollars into what became a successful reconstruction.
On Thursday, Mr. Kent opened his speech with a quotation from German poet Heinrich Heine, who converted to Christianity from Judaism, and drew a parallel between that reflected how the process of working with the former enemy toward a common goal has altered his perception.
All of us, every day, produce a steady stream of silent, inward-directed speech: plans, thoughts, quotations, memories.
His visage almost always stern behind wire-rimmed glasses, Mr. Burke likes to begin his council speeches with a quotation, perhaps Aristotle or an old Irish folk saying.
The second main type of stage speech consists of quotations drawn from classical Chinese poetry.
