“The lands are held in free and common soccage.”—­Trumbull cor. “A stroke is drawn under such words.”—­Cobbett’s Gr., 1st Ed.  “It is struck even, with a strickle.”—­W.  Walker cor. “Whilst I was wandering, without any care, beyond my bounds.”—­Id. “When one would do something, unless hindered by something present.”—­B.  Johnson cor. “It is used potentially, but not so as to be rendered by these signs.”—­Id. “Now who would dote upon things hurried down the stream thus fast?”—­Collier cor. “Heaven hath timely tried their growth.”—­Milton cor. “O! ye mistook, ye should have snatched his wand.”—­Id. “Of true virgin here distressed.”—­Id. “So that they have at last come to be substituted in the stead of it.”—­Barclay cor. “Though ye have lain among the pots.”—­Bible cor. “And, lo! in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off.”—­Scott’s Bible, and Alger’s.  “Brutus and Cassius Have ridden, (or rode,) like madmen, through the gates of Rome.”—­Shak. cor. “He shall be spit upon.”—­Bible cor. “And are not the countries so overflowed still situated between the tropics?”—­Bentley.  “Not tricked and frounced as she was wont, But kerchiefed in a comely cloud.”—­Milton cor. “To satisfy his rigour, Satisfied never.”—­Id. “With him there crucified.”—­Id. “Th’ earth cumbered, and the wing’d air darked with plumes.”—­Id. “And now their way to Earth they had descried.”—­Id. “Not so thick swarmed once the soil Bedropped with blood of Gorgon.”—­Id. “And in a troubled sea of passion tossed.”—­Id. “The cause, alas! is quickly guessed.”—­Swift cor. “The kettle to the top was hoised, or hoisted.”—­Id. “In chains thy syllables are linked.”—­Id. “Rather than thus be overtopped, Would you not wish their laurels cropped.”—­Id. “The HYPHEN, or CONJOINER, is a little line drawn to connect words, or parts of words.”—­Cobbett cor. “In the other manners of dependence, this general rule is sometimes broken.”—­R.  Johnson cor. “Some intransitive verbs may be rendered transitive by means of a preposition prefixed to them.”—­Grant cor. “Whoever now should place the accent on the first syllable of Valerius, would set every body a laughing.”—­J.  Walker cor. “Being mocked, scourged, spit upon, and crucified.”—­Gurney cor.

   “For rhyme in Greece or Rome was never known,
    Till barb’rous hordes those states had overthrown.”—­Roscommon cor.

    “In my own Thames may I be drowned,
    If e’er I stoop beneath the crowned.”  Or thus:—­
    “In my own Thames may I be drown’d dead,
    If e’er I stoop beneath a crown’d head.”—­Swift cor.