1. Pauline will address the letter of condolence. 2. The curator showed Ulysses the giraffe in the museum. 3. The vagaries of his ally made research work impossible. 4. The acute pain caused Eugene's robust opponent to make a grimace. 5. Professor Parnell's address in the lyceum was received with enthusiasm. 6. Upon inquiry the judge reversed his decision in favor of the appellant. SELECTIONS FOR READING AND MEMORIZING In these extracts do not stress the sound illustrated, but endeavor to express the author's thought. Quotations Containing the Sounds of p, b, and m 1. And that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. -LINCOLN. 2. While I nodded nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping As if someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. 3. Round about them orchards sweep, Apple and peach tree fruited deep. 4. The roadside blackberries growing ripe And in the wood the Indian pipe. 5. -POE. -WHITTIER. -RICHARD STODDARD. Oh, for a trap, a trap, a trap! BROWNING. 6. For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade. -WHITTIER. 7. It trips over the pebbles, It tinkles and trebles, It slides and it glides in its fetterless glee. It doubles And bubbles, It rimples And dimples, And so it goes racing adown to the sea. -CLINTON SCOLLARD. 8. "Black bough and bent twig budding out anew.” 9. A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form. 10. Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. -EMERSON. TENNYSON. 11. While at our feet the voice of crystal bubbles Charms us away from all our troubles. 12. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, 13. On the banks their clubs they buried, Buried all their warlike weapons. -KEATS. 'THE PEACE-PIPE, LONGFELLOW. |
