“It has snowed terribly all night, and is vengeance cold.”—­Swift. (3.) ADJECTIVES:  “Drink deep, or taste not.”—­Pope. “A place wondrous deep.”—­Webster’s Dict. “That fools should be so deep contemplative.”—­Shak. “A man may speak louder or softer in the same key; when he speaks higher or lower, he changes his key.”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 116. (4.) PRONOUNS:  “What am I eased?”—­Job. “What have I offended thee?”—­Gen., xx, 9.  “He is somewhat arrogant.”—­Dryden. (5.) VERBS:  “Smack went the whip, round went the wheels.”—­Cowper. “For then the farmers came jog, jog, along the miry road.”—­Id. “Crack! went something on deck.”—­Robinson Crusoe. “Then straight went the yard slap over their noddle.”—­Arbuthnot. (6.) PARTICIPLES:  “Like medicines given scalding hot.”—­Dodd. “My clothes are almost dripping wet.”—­“In came Squire South, stark, staring mad.”—­Arbuthnot. “An exceeding high mountain.”—­Matt., iv, 8.  “How sweet, how passing sweet, the hour to me!”—­Ch.  Observer. “When we act according to our duty.”—­Dr. Johnson. “A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.”—­Psal., lxxiv, 5. (7.) CONJUNCTIONS:  “Look, as I blow this feather from my face.”—­Shak. “Not at all, or but very gently.”—­Locke. “He was but born to try the lot of man.”—­Pope. (8.) PREPOSITIONS:  “They shall go in and out.”—­Bible. “From going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it.”—­Ib. These are actually adverbs, and not prepositions, because they govern nothing. (9.) INTERJECTIONS are never used as adverbs, though the Greek grammarians refer them nearly all to this class.  The using of other words for adverbs, (i. e., the adverbial use of any words that we do not actually call adverbs,) may be referred to the figure enallage:[307] as,

   “Tramp, tramp, across the land they speed,
    Splash, splash, across the sea.”—­Burger.

OBS. 5.—­As other parts of speech seem sometimes to take the nature of adverbs, so adverbs sometimes, either really or apparently, assume the nature of other parts of speech. (1.) Of NOUNS:  as, “A committee is not needed merely to say Yes or No; that will do very little good; the yes or the no must be accompanied and supported by reasons.”—­Dr. M’Cartee. “Shall I tell you why? Ay, sir, and wherefore; for, they say, every why hath a wherefore.”—­Shak. (2.) Of ADJECTIVES:  as, “Nebuchadnezzar invaded the country, and reduced it to an almost desert.”—­Wood’s Dict., w.  Moab. “The then bishop of London,