“A mere vaunt-courier to announce the coming of his master.”—­Tooke’s Diversions, Vol. i, p. 49.  “The parti-coloured shutter appeared to come close up before him.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 233.  “When the day broke upon this handfull of forlorn but dauntless spirits.”—­Ib., p. 245.  “If, upon a plumbtree, peaches and apricots are ingrafted, no body will say they are the natural growth of the plumbtree.”—­Berkley’s Minute Philos., p. 45.  “The channel between Newfoundland and Labrador is called the Straits of Bellisle.”—­Worcester’s Gaz. “There being nothing that more exposes to Headach.” [127]—­Locke, on Education, p. 6.  “And, by a sleep, to say we end the heartach.”—­SHAK.:  in Joh.  Dict. “He that sleeps, feels not the toothach.”—­ID., ibid. “That the shoe must fit him, because it fitted his father and granfather.”—­Philological Museum, Vol. i, p. 431.  “A single word, mispelt, in a letter, is sufficient to show, that you have received a defective education.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p. 3.  “Which mistatement the committee attributed to a failure of memory.”—­Professors’ Reasons, p. 14.  “Then he went through the Banquetting-House to the scaffold.”—­ Smollett’s England, Vol. iii, p. 345.  “For the purpose of maintaining a clergyman and skoolmaster.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 355.  “They however knew that the lands were claimed by Pensylvania.”—­Ib., p. 357.  “But if you ask a reason, they immediately bid farewel to argument.”—­Red Book, p. 80.  “Whom resist stedfast in the faith.”—­SCOTT:  1 Peter, v, 9.  “And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine.”—­Acts, ii, 42.  “Beware lest ye also fall from your own stedfastness.”—­2 Peter, iii, 17. “Galiot, or galliott, a Dutch vessel, carrying a main-mast and a mizen-mast.”—­Web.  Dict. “Infinitive, to overflow; Preterit, overflowed; Participle, overflown.”—­Cobbett’s E. Gram., (1818,) p. 61.  “After they have mispent so much precious Time.”—­British Gram., p. xv.  “Some say, two handsfull; some, two handfulls; and others, two handfull.”—­ Alex.  Murray’s Gram., p. 106.  “Lapfull, as much as the lap can contain.”—­Webster’s Octavo Dict. “Darefull, full of defiance.”—­ Walker’s Rhym.  Dict. “The road to the blissfull regions, is as open to the peasant as to the king.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 167.  “Mis-spel is mis-spell in every Dictionary which I have seen.”—­Barnes’s Red Book. p. 303.  “Downfal; ruin, calamity, fall from rank or state.”—­Johnson’s Dict. “The whole legislature likewize acts az a court.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 340.  “It were better a milstone were hanged about his neck.”—­Perkins’s Works, p. 731.  “Plum-tree, a tree that produces plums; Hog-plumbtree, a tree.”—­Webster’s Dict. “Trisyllables ending in re or le, accent the first syllable.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 238.