“The literal sense of the words is, that the action had been done.”—­Dr. Murray cor. “The rapidity of his movements was beyond example.”—­Wells cor. “Murray’s Grammar, together with his Exercises and Key, has nearly superseded every thing else of the kind.”—­Murray’s Rec. cor. “The mechanism of clocks and watches was totally unknown.”—­Hume cor. “The it, together with the verb to be, expresses a state of being.”—­Cobbett cor. “Hence it is, that the profuse variety of objects in some natural landscapes, occasions neither confusion nor fatigue.”—­Kames cor. “Such a clatter of sounds indicates rage and ferocity.”—­Gardiner cor. “One of the fields makes threescore square yards, and the other, only fifty-five.”—­Duncan cor. “The happy effects of this fable are worth attending to.”—­Bailey cor. “Yet the glorious serenity of its parting rays, still lingers with us.”—­Gould cor. “Enough of its form and force is retained to render them uneasy.”—­Maturin cor. “The works of nature, in this respect, are extremely regular.”—­Pratt cor. “No small addition of exotic and foreign words and phrases, has been made by commerce.”—­Bicknell cor. “The dialect of some nouns is noticed in the notes.”—­Milnes cor. “It has been said, that a discovery of the full resources of the arts, affords the means of debasement, or of perversion.”—­Rush cor. “By which means, the order of the words is disturbed.”—­Holmes cor. “The two-fold influence of these and the others, requires the verb to be in the plural form.”—­Peirce cor. “And each of these affords employment.”—­Percival cor. “The pronunciation of the vowels is best explained under the rules relative to the consonants.”—­Coar cor. “The judicial power of these courts extends to all cases in law and equity.”—­Hall and Baker cor. “One of you has stolen my money.”—­Humorist cor. “Such redundancy of epithets, in stead of pleasing, produces satiety and disgust.”—­Kames cor. “It has been alleged, that a compliance with the rules of Rhetoric, tends to cramp the mind.”—­Hiley cor. “Each of these is presented to us in different relations.”—­Hendrick cor. “The past tense of these verbs, (should, would, might, could,) is very indefinite with respect to time.”—­Bullions cor. “The power of the words which are said to govern this mood, is distinctly understood.”—­Chandler cor.

   “And now, at length, the fated term of years
    The world’s desire hath brought, and lo! the God appears.”
        —­Lowth cor.

    “Variety of numbers still belongs
    To the soft melody of odes, or songs.”
        —­Brightland cor.