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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... derive from this source often a wonderful continuity , with- out which his profound conceptions could not find adequate expression . In order to represent some thoughts , style needs a certain sweep of sustained expression , like the ...
... derive from this source often a wonderful continuity , with- out which his profound conceptions could not find adequate expression . In order to represent some thoughts , style needs a certain sweep of sustained expression , like the ...
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... derived from the Latin pre , before , and pono , place . The preposition is a word usually placed before another , which is called its object , and which it is said to " govern . " " * Yet a little consideration will show that this so ...
... derived from the Latin pre , before , and pono , place . The preposition is a word usually placed before another , which is called its object , and which it is said to " govern . " " * Yet a little consideration will show that this so ...
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... derived from aft or aftan , back , behind , after , first reinforced by the prefix be- or bi- , by , near , forming baft , which was in use as a separate word in the fourteenth century . This was further reinforced by the prefix a- , on ...
... derived from aft or aftan , back , behind , after , first reinforced by the prefix be- or bi- , by , near , forming baft , which was in use as a separate word in the fourteenth century . This was further reinforced by the prefix a- , on ...
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... can talk when we get aboard the train . 3. Across or alongside of : a secondary nautical meaning ; as , to lay the ship aboard the enemy . ABOUT About is derived from the Anglo - Saxon ābūtan 13 aboard DEFINED AND ILLUSTRATED.
... can talk when we get aboard the train . 3. Across or alongside of : a secondary nautical meaning ; as , to lay the ship aboard the enemy . ABOUT About is derived from the Anglo - Saxon ābūtan 13 aboard DEFINED AND ILLUSTRATED.
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... derived from the Anglo - Saxon ābūtan , which is com- posed of an- , on , plus būtan , outside . About thus signifies directly and literally on the outside of . I. Of place or space : 1. Surrounding ( an object ) on all sides , so as to ...
... derived from the Anglo - Saxon ābūtan , which is com- posed of an- , on , plus būtan , outside . About thus signifies directly and literally on the outside of . I. Of place or space : 1. Surrounding ( an object ) on all sides , so as to ...
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A. P. STANLEY Adjectives adverb amid Anglo-Saxon antecedent beneath Brutus Cæsar CARLYLE clause Compare connection CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTIONS derived direction Distinctions EMERSON English Grammar vol equivalent Essays expression fact force friends GEORGE ELIOT hath Henry Hist idea implied infinitive interrogative IRVING 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 Wives of Windsor word WORDSWORTH
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Page 256 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Page 315 - There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
Page 308 - Then none was for a party ; Then all were for the state ; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great ; Then lands were fairly portioned ; Then spoils were fairly sold : The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.
Page 84 - LARS PORSENA of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
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Page 181 - The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
Page 304 - And now he feels the bottom ; Now on dry earth he stands; Now round him throng the Fathers To press his gory hands; And now with shouts and clapping, And noise of weeping loud, He enters through the River-Gate, Borne by the joyous crowd.
Page 135 - The ships of war, that prowled like guardian giants along the coast; the headlands of Ireland, stretching out into the channel; the Welsh mountains, towering into the clouds; all were objects of intense interest. As we sailed up the Mersey, I reconnoitred the shores with a telescope. My eye dwelt with delight on neat cottages, with their trim shrubberies and green grass plots.
Page 293 - Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on...
Page 208 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the Rich ! She sang this