wornout piece of cloth.”—
Id.
“Though they had lately received a reinforcement
of a thousand
heavy-armed Spartans.”—
Id.
“But he laid them by unopened; and, with a smile,
said, ‘Business
to-morrow.’”—
Id.
“Chester
Monthly Meeting is held at
Moorestown,
on the
Thirdday following the second
Secondday”—
The
Friend cor. “Eggharbour
Monthly Meeting
is held
on the first
Secondday.”—
Id.
“
Little-Eggharbour Monthly Meeting is
held at Tuckerton on the second
Fifthday in
each month.”—
Id. “At
three o’clock, on
Firstday morning, the
24th of
Eleventhmonth, 1834,” &c.—
Id.
“In less than
one fourth part of the time
usually devoted.”—
Kirkham cor.
“The pupil will not have occasion to use it
one
tenth part
so much.”—
Id.
“The painter dips his
paintbrush in paint,
to paint the carriage.”—
Id.
“In an ancient English version of the
New
Testament.”—
Id. “The
little boy was
bareheaded.”—
Red
Book cor. “The man, being a little
short-sighted,
did not immediately know him.”—
Id.
“
Picture-frames are gilt with gold.”—
Id.
“The
parkkeeper killed one of the deer.”—
Id.
“The fox was killed near the
brickkiln.”—
Id.
“Here comes Esther, with her
milkpail”—
Id.
“The
cabinet-maker would not tell us.”—
Id.
“A fine
thorn-hedge extended along the
edge of the hill.”—
Id. “If
their private interests should be
everso little
affected.”—
Id. “Unios
are
fresh-water shells, vulgarly called
fresh-water
clams.”—
Id.
“Did not each poet mourn his
luckless doom,
Jostled by pedants out of
elbow-room.”—Lloyd cor.
LESSON III.—MIXED EXAMPLES.
“The captive hovers a while upon the
sad remains.”—Johnson cor.
“Constantia saw that the hand-writing
agreed with the contents of the letter.”—Id.
“They have put me in a silk night-gown,
and a gaudy foolscap”—Id.
“Have you no more manners than to rail at Hocus,
that has saved that clod-pated, numb-skulled ninny-hammer
of yours from ruin, and all his family?”—Id.
“A noble, (that is, six shillings and eight
pence,) is [paid], and usually hath been paid.”—Id.
“The king of birds, thick-feathered,
and with full-summed wings, fastened his talons east
and west.”—Id. “To-morrow.
This—supposing morrow to mean morning,
as it did originally—is an idiom of the
same kind as to-night, to-day.”—Johnson
cor. “To-day goes away, and to-morrow comes.”—Id.
“Young children, who are tried in Gocarts,
to keep their steps from sliding.”—Id.
“Which, followed well, would demonstrate them