The servant told us that the young ladies were all in. 
All my poor success is due to you. 
He insisted on carrying a revolver, and so the college authorities fired
him. 
The carpenter too had his castles in Spain. 
He rested his old bones by the wayside, and his gaunt dog stood sniffing
at them. 
On the other hand, he had a white elephant to dispose of. 
When he came to the forks of the road, he showed he was not on the square. 
Body, for funeral purposes, must be sold at once.  City Automobile Agency.

7.  Can you express the following ideas in other words without sacrifice of emotional suggestion?  Try.

  The music, yearning like a god in pain. 
    Alone, alone, all, all alone,
    Alone on a wide, wide sea!

  But O for the touch of a vanished hand,
  And the sound of a voice that is still! 
    Old, unhappy, far-off things,
    And battles long ago.

  It was night in the lonesome October. 
    How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
    In the icy air of night! 
    While the stars, that oversprinkle
    All the heavens, seem to twinkle
    With a crystalline delight.

  The moan of doves in immemorial elms,
  And murmuring of innumerable bees.

  Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
  To lie in cold obstruction and to rot.

  Merrily, merrily, shall I live now,
  Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

  ’Tis as easy now for the heart to be true
  As for grass to be green or skies to be blue,—­
  ’Tis the natural way of living.

                         We are such stuff
  As dreams are made of, and our little life
  Is rounded with a sleep.

8.  With the most connotative words at your command describe the following: 

Your first sweetheart
A solemn experience
A ludicrous experience
A terrifying experience
A mysterious experience
The circus parade you saw in your boyhood
A servant girl
A dude
An odd character you have known
The old homestead
Your boarding house
A scene suggesting the intense heat of a midsummer day
Night on the river
The rush for the subway car
The traffic policeman
Your boss
Anything listed in the first part of Activity 9 of EXERCISE — Discourse.

III

    WORDS IN COMBINATION:  HOW MASTERED

The more dangerous pitfalls for those who use words in combination—­as all of us do—­have been pointed out.  The best ways of avoiding these pitfalls have also been indicated.  But our work together has thus far been chiefly negative.  To be sure, many tasks assigned for your performance have been constructive as well as precautionary; but the end held ever before you has been the avoidance of feeble or ridiculous diction.  In the present chapter we must take up those aspects of the mastery of words in combination which are primarily positive.