The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.

The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.
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

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