years old. 15.  If the ground is uneven they just level it off with a shovel. 16.  Once the two twins were shipwrecked while on a sailing voyage. 17.  The purple bird was once a royal king named Picus. 18.  A large search-light will show a sail at a distance of three or four
    miles away.
19.  Each of the provinces was ruled over by a duke. 20.  When he returned he entered into the printing business. 21.  He had a good chance to shift off the sky to the shoulders of
    Hercules.
22.  The mud falls off from the wheels and makes the street dirty. 23.  An old merchant of Syracuse, named A†geon, had two twin sons. 24.  He was almost universally admired and respected by all who knew him. 25.  Pretty soon the man’s hands began to get all blistered. 26.  Before you go you must first finish your work. 27.  He did it equally as well as his friends. 28.  It must be ten years ago since he left town. 29.  Collect together all the fragments. 30.  The play opens up with a scene in a forest. 31.  He has the universal good-will of everybody. 32.  Please raise up the window. 33.  The story ends up happily. 34.  They always entered school together every morning. 35.  Out of the entire pack only two dogs remained. 36.  He went away, but soon reappeared again. 37.  A monstrous large snake crawled out from under the identical stone on
    which you are this very minute sitting.
38.  I was deceived by false misrepresentations. 39.  This question opened up the whole subject. 40.  Let us, however, endeavor to trace up some of this hearsay evidence as far towards its source as we are able. 41.  I will see you later on.

MISUSED ADJECTIVES and ADVERBS.[119]—­See the remarks under “Misused Nouns.”  An amusing illustration of misused adjectives was furnished by an illiterate man who introduced his second wife to a friend as “My late wife.”

I.

AGGRAVATING, IRRITATING.—­In good use aggravating means “making heavier, more grave, worse in some way.”  It is often misused for irritating, exasperating, or provoking.

ALL, THE WHOLE.—­See page 120.

APT, LIKELY, LIABLE.—­Apt implies a natural predisposition, an habitual tendency. “Likely implies a probability of whatever character; liable, an unpleasant probability."[120] One is apt to speak quickly, likely to hear good news, liable to be hurt.

BOTH, EACH, EVERY.—­Both, meaning “the two, and not merely one of them,” groups objects, as, “Both were men of hot temper.” Each means “all of any number, considered one by one,” as, “Each boy recited in his turn.” Every means “all of any number, considered as composing a group or class,” as, “Every pupil should have a dictionary and use it freely.” “Every directs attention chiefly to the totality, each chiefly to the individuals composing it.  It may also be observed that each usually refers to a numerically definite group....  Thus, ’Each theory is open to objection’ relates to an understood enumeration of theories, but ’Every theory is open to objection’ refers to all theories that may exist."[121]