Connectives of English Speech: The Correct Usage of Prepositions, Conjunctions, Relative Pronouns and Adverbs Explained and IllustratedFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1904 - 324 pages |
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... side of the house , behind it an apple orchard bending under the weight of its ruddy fruit . Below the orchard the river flows between rocky banks , and beyond it rises a steep woody hill . A little up the stream there is a bridge ...
... side of the house , behind it an apple orchard bending under the weight of its ruddy fruit . Below the orchard the river flows between rocky banks , and beyond it rises a steep woody hill . A little up the stream there is a bridge ...
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... side may be described as " to starboard abaft the beam , ” and any object in the corresponding place on the left as ... sides of ( a ship or other vessel ) . Aboard my galley I invite you all . SHAKESPEARE Antony and Cleopatra act ii ...
... side may be described as " to starboard abaft the beam , ” and any object in the corresponding place on the left as ... sides of ( a ship or other vessel ) . Aboard my galley I invite you all . SHAKESPEARE Antony and Cleopatra act ii ...
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... sides , so as to encircle it , equivalent to around or all around . Set bounds about the mount . He made a trench about the altar . Ex . xix , 23 . 1 Kings xviii , 32 . The chain he drew was clasped about his middle . DICKENS Christmas ...
... sides , so as to encircle it , equivalent to around or all around . Set bounds about the mount . He made a trench about the altar . Ex . xix , 23 . 1 Kings xviii , 32 . The chain he drew was clasped about his middle . DICKENS Christmas ...
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... sides of ; as , peddling goods about the country ; wandering about the world ; look about you . Smite about it with a knife . The mourners go about the streets . The watchmen that went about the city . Walk about Zion and go round about ...
... sides of ; as , peddling goods about the country ; wandering about the world ; look about you . Smite about it with a knife . The mourners go about the streets . The watchmen that went about the city . Walk about Zion and go round about ...
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... side of ; beside ; close to ; somewhere near ; at , in , or by ; as , idlers hanging about the door ; there is a man about the house . There was no room to receive them , no , not so much as about the door . Mark ii , 2 . Mark iv , 10 ...
... side of ; beside ; close to ; somewhere near ; at , in , or by ; as , idlers hanging about the door ; there is a man about the house . There was no room to receive them , no , not so much as about the door . Mark ii , 2 . Mark iv , 10 ...
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A. P. STANLEY Adjectives adverb amid Anglo-Saxon antecedent beneath Brutus Cæsar CARLYLE clause Compare connection CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTIONS Defined and Illustrated derived direction Distinctions EMERSON English Grammar vol equivalent Essays expression fact force friends GEORGE ELIOT hath Henry Hist idea implied infinitive interrogative J. R. SEELEY JEAN INGELOW John Julius Cæsar king language lect LONGFELLOW LOWELL MACAULAY England vol MAETZNER English Grammar meaning Merchant of Venice Middlemarch midst MILTON Paradise Lost motion N. P. WILLIS never night NOTE.-In noun object omitted Paradise Lost bk participle person place or space R. H. DANA reason reference relative pronoun SCOTT Lady sense sentence Sermons SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE Merry Wives ship side soul speak speech Standard Dictionary Tempest act TENNYSON thee things thou thought tion unto usage various relations Venice act verb whence whither WHITTIER Windsor act words WORDSWORTH
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