1.  In the large room some forty or fifty students were walking about while the parties were preparing.

2.  This was done by taking off the coat and vest and binding a great thick leather garment on, which reached to the knees.

3.  They then put on a leather glove reaching nearly to the shoulder, tied a thick cravat around the throat, and drew on a cap with a large visor.

4.  This done, they were walked about the room a short time; their faces all this time betrayed considerable anxiety.

5.  We joined the crowd, and used our lungs as well as any.

6.  The lakes were soon covered with merry skaters, and every afternoon the banks were crowded with spectators.

7.  People were setting up torches and lengthening the rafts which had been already formed.

8.  The water was first brought in barrels drawn by horses, till some officer came and opened the fire plug.

9.  The exclusive in fashionable life does not see that he excludes himself from enjoyment, in the attempt to appropriate it.

(b) Find sentences with five verbs in the active and five in the passive voice.

MOOD.

[Sidenote:  Definition.]

213.  The word mood is from the Latin modus, meaning manner, way, method.  Hence, when applied to verbs,—­

Mood means the manner of conceiving and expressing action or being of some subject.

[Sidenote:  The three ways.]

214.  There are three chief ways of expressing action or being:—­

(1) As a fact; this may be a question, statement, or assumption.

(2) As doubtful, or merely conceived of in the mind.

(3) As urged or commanded.

INDICATIVE MOOD.

[Sidenote:  Deals with facts.]

215.  The term indicative is from the Latin indicare (to declare, or assert).  The indicative represents something as a fact,—­

[Sidenote:  Affirms or denies.]

(1) By declaring a thing to be true or not to be true; thus,—­

     Distinction is the consequence, never the object, of a great
     mind.—­ALLSTON.

     I do not remember when or by whom I was taught to read;
     because I cannot and never could recollect a time when I
     could not read my Bible.—­D.  WEBSTER.

[Sidenote:  Assumed as a fact.]

[Sidenote:  Caution.]

(2) By assuming a thing to be true without declaring it to be so.  This kind of indicative clause is usually introduced by if (meaning admitting that, granting that, etc.), though, although, etc.  Notice that the action is not merely conceived as possible; it is assumed to be a fact:  for example,—­