An English Grammar eBook

James Witt Sewell
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 358 pages of information about An English Grammar.

An English Grammar eBook

James Witt Sewell
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 358 pages of information about An English Grammar.

     9.  To every Roman citizen he gives, To every several man,
     seventy-five drachmas.

     10.  Each member was permitted to entertain all the rest on his or
     her birthday, on which occasion the elders of the family were
     bound to be absent.

     11.  Instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the
     bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are
     immutably fishes, oxen, and dogs.

     12.  I know not what course others may take.

     13.  With every third step, the tomahawk fell.

     14.  What a ruthless business this war of extermination is!

     15.  I was just emerging from that many-formed crystal country.

     16.  On what shore has not the prow of your ships dashed?

     17.  The laws and institutions of his country ought to have been
     more to him than all the men in his country.

     18.  Like most gifted men, he won affections with ease.

     19.  His letters aim to elicit the inmost experience and outward
     fortunes of those he loves, yet are remarkably self-forgetful.

     20.  Their name was the last word upon his lips.

     21.  The captain said it was the last stick he had seen.

     22.  Before sunrise the next morning they let us out again.

     23.  He was curious to know to what sect we belonged.

     24.  Two hours elapsed, during which time I waited.

     25.  In music especially, you will soon find what personal benefit
     there is in being serviceable.

     26.  To say what good of fashion we can, it rests on reality, and
     hates nothing so much as pretenders.

     27.  Here lay two great roads, not so much for travelers that were
     few, as for armies that were too many by half.

     28.  On whichever side of the border chance had thrown Joanna, the
     same love to France would have been nurtured.

     29.  What advantage was open to him above the English boy?

     30.  Nearer to our own times, and therefore more interesting to
     us, is the settlement of our own country.

     31.  Even the topmost branches spread out and drooped in all
     directions, and many poles supported the lower ones.

     32.  Most fruits depend entirely on our care.

     33.  Even the sourest and crabbedest apple, growing in the most
     unfavorable position, suggests such thoughts as these, it is so
     noble a fruit.

     34.  Let him live in what pomps and prosperities he like, he is no
     literary man.

     35.  Through what hardships it may bear a sweet fruit!

     36.  Whatsoever power exists will have itself organized.

     37.  A hard-struggling, weary-hearted man was he.

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