then set at liberty. This is called taking his pa

We wish to be at peace with all nations.

I wish to talk with you if you are at leisure. The earth seems at rest, but it is always moving.

In a battle the bravest men take aim, the rest get confused and fire at random.

At (one's) request
At (one's) expense

at (one's) command

at (one's) invitation

Mr. Peet went to Raleigh, at the request of the Directors of the North Carolina Institution, and delivered an address.

At the command of Christ, the tempest ceased, and the sea was still.

The Aldermen dine at the expense of the city.

To in Idioms.

A woman named Folly was sent to the state

prison in New Jersey some years since, for beating a little girl to death.

A man, who had been hanged, was restored to life by Galvanism.

The child cried itself to sleep.

A drunken man went to sleep on a rail-road track, and the cars cut off both his legs.

That doctor boasts that his medicines restored a lady to health who had been sick twenty years.

Lesson 146.

Abstract Nouns are used with various prepositions expressing TIME. See Lessons 48, 49

and 50.

Before her marriage, Mrs. A. had many lovers. After the death of Joseph, the Egyptians oppressed the Israelites.

Since the revolution, the people of the United States have increased from three millions to twenty millions.

At the death of Christ, the sun was darkened, and there was a great earthquake.

The star, which appeared in the East at the birth of Christ, led the wise men to Jerusalem.

At the close of the examination, the first class receive their diplomas.

Once at a wedding the floor gave way, and the fell into the cellar.

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The guillotine cuts off a man's head at a single stroke.

A man drank a quart of rum at a single draught, and fell dead.

Eneas killed two brothers at one stroke of his sword.

A man killed one hundred pigeons at two shots.

By and with are also used in this connection.

A man was killed in a street quarrel by one blow of the fist.

Give a blow. Receive a blow.

After giving and receiving many hard blows, Sullivan was carried away bloody and half dead, and Tom Hyer was declared victor.

Lesson 147.

The Prepositions FROM, TO and at, expressing relations of PLACE, MOTION, INCREASE or DE

CREASE.

Madame Blanchard's balloon took fire. She fell from a great height, and was dashed to pieces.'

1 At Paris, about 50 years ago.

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Most of our pupils come from a distance.
That man fell at full length in the road.

I met some men returning from a great fox hunt. They told me they had killed seven foxes. A little before nine o'clock, the pupils are called from work to prepare for school.

When Santa Anna fled from the battle of San Jacinto, he hid himself in the top of a tree, where the Texians found him, and took him prisoner. A year or two afterward his leg was shot off by the French at Vera Cruz. When he escaped from the battle of Cerro Gordo, he left his wooden leg behind.

Pearl oysters are brought up from the depth of ninety feet by men who dive down with stones tied to their feet. The men seldom live more than five or six years after they begin the business.

A poor man went to his work in the woods one morning with his dinner in a basket. He did not return at night, and the next day, after a long search, his body was found, half eaten by wolves.

In hot countries, Indian corn grows to the size of a small tree.

The mists rise to the height of about a quarter of a mile, and there form clouds.

Some men can hit the head of a nail with a rifle ball at the distance of a hundred yards.

In this and similar cases, we often omit the distance of, and write simply, at one hundred yards, at ten paces, &c.

Mr. Graves and Mr. Cilley fought with rifles at eighty paces. At the third fire, Mr. Cilley fell, mortally wounded.

Dick can beat Tom in wrestling at arm's length, but not in a close hug.

Lesson 148.

All abstract nouns may be used with possessives, and may be nominatives to verbs, or may be governed by verbs. They are also represented by IT, THEM, WHICH.

Miscellaneous Examples.

A doctor performed an operation' on W.'s ears. His hearing was somewhat improved, but not so much that he could learn to speak. The operation did very little good.

Mr. X. is proud of his son's learning, and boasts of it so often that his friends are tired of hearing him.

A boy boasted of his agility, and to show it, jumped over a gate, and put his ancle out of joint.

An operation includes cutting open, cutting out, cutting off, perforating, washiag, &c., in short all use of instruments.