“On each enervate string they
taught the note
To pant, or tremble through
a eunuch’s throat.”—Pope
cor.
UNDER NOTE II.—AN OR A WITH PLURALS.
“At a session of the court, in March, it was moved,” &c.—Hutchinson cor. “I shall relate my conversations, of which I kept memoranda.”—D. D’Ab. cor. “I took an other dictionary, and with a pair of scissors cut out, for instance, the word ABACUS.”—A. B. Johnson cor. “A person very meet seemed he for the purpose, and about forty-five years old.”—Gardiner cor. “And it came to pass, about eight days after these sayings.”—Bible cor. “There were slain of them about three thousand men.”—1 Macc. cor. “Until I had gained the top of these white mountains, which seemed other Alps of snow.”—Addison cor. “To make them satisfactory amends for all the losses they had sustained.”—Goldsmith cor. “As a first-fruit of many that shall be gathered.”—Barclay cor. “It makes indeed a little amend, (or some amends,) by inciting us to oblige people.”—Sheffield cor. “A large and lightsome back stairway (or flight of backstairs) leads up to an entry above.”—Id. “Peace of mind is an abundant recompense for any sacrifices of interest.”—Murray et al. cor. “With such a spirit, and such sentiments, were hostilities carried on.”—Robertson cor. “In the midst of a thick wood, he had long lived a voluntary recluse.”—G. B. “The flats look almost like a young forest.”—Chronicle cor. “As we went on, the country for a little way improved, but scantily.”—Freeman cor. “Whereby the Jews were permitted to return into their own country, after a captivity of seventy years at Babylon.”—Rollin cor. “He did not go a great way into the country.”—Gilbert cor.