Some Ill-used WordsD. Appleton, 1901 - 242 sayfa |
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American antecedent anxious APPLETON AND COMPANY better Bryan Capable cents China Chinese circulation circulating clause Cloth collection collecting colloquialism comma committee commonly Deemster Democratic Desirous determination determining development developing diction election ELLEN THORNEYCROFT FOWLER English establishment of establishing example expressed facts.-Standard Dictionary favor former free silver French German given giving it incidental Government grammar Hall Caine Harrison Grey Fiske haste hurry imperfect tense imposition imposing individual infinitive interest Jack Cade labor language latter locution look McKinley means ment Miss misuse never noun novel Pecuniary Pekin political preposition present preservation preserving President pronouns properly proposal proposition question reader reform relative relative pronouns Republican party Richard Croker sense sentence story street supervision supervising Susceptible tense thing thought tion tionary tive to-day Uncle Remus verb it belongs Verbalist vote WILLIAM COBBETT writer yesterday York Evening Sun
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Sayfa 240 - Another historical romance of the vividness and intensity of 'The Seats of the Mighty' has never come from the pen of an American.
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Sayfa 231 - Besides, the preposition doth not here precede its regimen, but follows it. One would imagine, to consider the matter abstractly, that this could not fail in a language like ours, which admits so few inflections, to create obscurity. Yet this, in fact, is seldom or never the consequence. Indeed, the singularity of the idiom hath made some critics condemn it absolutely. That there is nothing analogous in any known tongue, ancient or modern, hath appeared to them a sufficient reason. I own it never...
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