The following are additional examples:—­

     The next correspondent wants you to mark out a whole course of
     life for him.—­HOLMES.

     Every city threw open its gates.—­DE QUINCEY.

     Every person who turns this page has his own little
     diary.—­THACKERAY.

     The pale realms of shade, where each shall take
     His chamber in the silent halls of death. 
     —­BRYANT.

[Sidenote:  Avoided:  By using both pronouns.]

Sometimes this is avoided by using both the masculine and the feminine pronoun; for example,—­

     Not the feeblest grandame, not a mowing idiot, but uses what
     spark of perception and faculty is left, to chuckle and triumph
     in his or her opinion.—­EMERSON.

     It is a game which has been played for untold ages, every man
     and woman of us being one of the two players in a game of his
     or her own.—­HUXLEY.

By using the plural pronoun.

411.  Another way of referring to an antecedent which is a distributive pronoun or a noun modified by a distributive adjective, is to use the plural of the pronoun following.  This is not considered the best usage, the logical analysis requiring the singular pronoun in each case; but the construction is frequently found when the antecedent includes or implies both genders.  The masculine does not really represent a feminine antecedent, and the expression his or her is avoided as being cumbrous.

Notice the following examples of the plural:—­

     Neither of the sisters were very much deceived.—­THACKERAY.

     Every one must judge of their own feelings.—­BYRON.

     Had the doctor been contented to take my dining tables, as
     anybody in their senses would have done.—­AUSTEN.

     If the part deserve any comment, every considering Christian
     will make it themselves as they go.—­DEFOE.

     Every person’s happiness depends in part upon the respect
     they meet in the world.—­PALEY.

     Every nation have their refinements—­STERNE.

     Neither gave vent to their feelings in words.—­SCOTT.

     Each of the nations acted according to their national
     custom.—­PALGRAVE.

     The sun, which pleases everybody with it and with
     themselves.—­RUSKIN.

     Urging every one within reach of your influence to be neat, and
     giving them means of being so.—­Id.

     Everybody will become of use in their own fittest way.—­Id.

     Everybody said they thought it was the newest thing
     there.—­WENDELL PHILLIPS.