The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those who Would Speak and Write with ProprietyD. Appleton, 1902 - 337 sayfa |
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Sayfa 8
... Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : thou hast cast out the heathen , and planted it . Thou preparedst room before it , and didst cause it to take deep root , and it filled the land . The hills were covered with the shadow of it ...
... Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : thou hast cast out the heathen , and planted it . Thou preparedst room before it , and didst cause it to take deep root , and it filled the land . The hills were covered with the shadow of it ...
Sayfa 19
... thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down , And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? " " Sail on , thou lone imperial bird Of quenchless eye and tireless wing ! " " Help , angels , make assay ! Bow , stubborn knees ! and heart with strings ...
... thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down , And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? " " Sail on , thou lone imperial bird Of quenchless eye and tireless wing ! " " Help , angels , make assay ! Bow , stubborn knees ! and heart with strings ...
Sayfa 29
... thou art beside thyself . ' The adverbial sense to be wholly transferred to the cognate word . 2. That besides , as a preposition , take the remaining sense , in addition to ; as , besides all this ; besides the consideration here ...
... thou art beside thyself . ' The adverbial sense to be wholly transferred to the cognate word . 2. That besides , as a preposition , take the remaining sense , in addition to ; as , besides all this ; besides the consideration here ...
Sayfa 87
... thou- sand words . Perhaps two words would have done equally as well - simply ' I accept . ' The as or the equally should have been omitted . Equanimity of mind . This phrase is tautological , and expresses no more than does equanimity ...
... thou- sand words . Perhaps two words would have done equally as well - simply ' I accept . ' The as or the equally should have been omitted . Equanimity of mind . This phrase is tautological , and expresses no more than does equanimity ...
Sayfa 137
... thou- sand " penny - paper editors ' ; and the fact is , that phrases of the form here pointed at have hitherto enjoyed very much less favor with us than with the English . ་ " As lately as 1860 , Dr. Worcester , referring to is being ...
... thou- sand " penny - paper editors ' ; and the fact is , that phrases of the form here pointed at have hitherto enjoyed very much less favor with us than with the English . ་ " As lately as 1860 , Dr. Worcester , referring to is being ...
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