The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those who Would Speak and Write with ProprietyD. Appleton, 1881 - 220 sayfa |
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Sayfa 36
... lived . " 66 66 ' Bonaparte was certainly as Climax . A clause , a sentence , a paragraph , or any lit- erary composition whatsoever , is said to end with a climax when , by an artistic arrangement , the more effective is made to follow ...
... lived . " 66 66 ' Bonaparte was certainly as Climax . A clause , a sentence , a paragraph , or any lit- erary composition whatsoever , is said to end with a climax when , by an artistic arrangement , the more effective is made to follow ...
Sayfa 115
... lived , like a dog . " " It is as blue as indi- go " ; i . e . , " as indigo is . " Like , To . See LOVE . Likely . See APT . " Lit. This form of the past participle of the verb to light is now obsolete . " Have you lighted the fire ...
... lived , like a dog . " " It is as blue as indi- go " ; i . e . , " as indigo is . " Like , To . See LOVE . Likely . See APT . " Lit. This form of the past participle of the verb to light is now obsolete . " Have you lighted the fire ...
Sayfa 152
... lived a benevolent and hospitable prior , who caused these lines to be painted over his door : " Be open evermore , O thou my door ! To none be shut - to honest or to poor ! " In time the good prior was succeeded by a man as selfish as ...
... lived a benevolent and hospitable prior , who caused these lines to be painted over his door : " Be open evermore , O thou my door ! To none be shut - to honest or to poor ! " In time the good prior was succeeded by a man as selfish as ...
Sayfa 153
... lived adjacent to the frontier . ' 4. ' Observers ( , ) who have recently investigated this point ( , ) do not all agree , ' etc. 5. The wind did ( , ) in an instant ( , ) what man and steam together had failed to do in hours . ' 6 ...
... lived adjacent to the frontier . ' 4. ' Observers ( , ) who have recently investigated this point ( , ) do not all agree , ' etc. 5. The wind did ( , ) in an instant ( , ) what man and steam together had failed to do in hours . ' 6 ...
Sayfa 154
... lived adjacent to the frontier ; from No. 4 , that all observers have recently in- vestigated the point in question ; from No. 6 , that all the cabin passengers were so situated that they were saved , whereas it is meant that only a ...
... lived adjacent to the frontier ; from No. 4 , that all observers have recently in- vestigated the point in question ; from No. 6 , that all the cabin passengers were so situated that they were saved , whereas it is meant that only a ...
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