A Drill Book in the Elements of the English LanguageTuttle, 1887 - 156 pagina's |
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Pagina 39
... Look , what a nice new coat is mine , Sure there was never a bird so fine . Chee , chce , chee . ( 3 ) Robert of Lincoln's Quaker wife , Pretty and quiet , with plain brown wings , Passing at home a patient life , Broods in the grass ...
... Look , what a nice new coat is mine , Sure there was never a bird so fine . Chee , chce , chee . ( 3 ) Robert of Lincoln's Quaker wife , Pretty and quiet , with plain brown wings , Passing at home a patient life , Broods in the grass ...
Pagina 44
... look well , and you choose to compliment me , say , " I think you look well . " ( 9 ) " But , " you answer , " that is so common and so plain , and what everybody can say . " ( 10 ) Well , and what if everybody can ? ( 11 ) Is it so ...
... look well , and you choose to compliment me , say , " I think you look well . " ( 9 ) " But , " you answer , " that is so common and so plain , and what everybody can say . " ( 10 ) Well , and what if everybody can ? ( 11 ) Is it so ...
Pagina 46
... laws of military discipline forbade to the injured soldier any practical redress - he could look for no retaliation by acts . ( 4 ) Words only were at his command ; and , in a tumult of indignation , 46 A DRILL BOOK IN THE.
... laws of military discipline forbade to the injured soldier any practical redress - he could look for no retaliation by acts . ( 4 ) Words only were at his command ; and , in a tumult of indignation , 46 A DRILL BOOK IN THE.
Pagina 49
... look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination , and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him . ( 12 ) He lifted me from the ground , and , taking me by the hand , " Mirza ...
... look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination , and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him . ( 12 ) He lifted me from the ground , and , taking me by the hand , " Mirza ...
Pagina 52
... Look no more , ” said he , " on man in the first stage of his existence , in his set- ting out for eternity , but cast thine eye on that thick mist , into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it ...
... Look no more , ” said he , " on man in the first stage of his existence , in his set- ting out for eternity , but cast thine eye on that thick mist , into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Acadian accented syllables aloud amphibrach anapestic Anti aspirate Atbara beauty blow blue Blue Nile bob-o'-link bobolink breath breezes bridge called Camelot chee cheerful Christmas Circum clouds consonants dactyl deep derivative words digraph diphthong dissyllable earth Egypt flow Give the sound ground group of syllables hand happy hear heard heart heaven hill iambic iambus Inter kind of foot Lady of Shalott land letters representing light look Marlborough Downs MARULLUS moon morning never night o'er Paraphrase pass Paul Revere pleasure prefix Preter primitive words Pronounce these words river river Lee Robert of Lincoln scan sentence Shandon ship shore single and sounded Spink stream subvocals suffix Super tences thee thou tide tion Trans Transpose trees TRIPHTHONGS trochee unto valley village vocal voice vowels voyage walk waves whisper whiten wild wind
Populaire passages
Pagina 70 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said : " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Pagina 92 - You know the rest. In the books you have read, How the British regulars fired and fled, How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees at the turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load.
Pagina 103 - Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward, Giving the village its name, and pasture to flocks without number.
Pagina 89 - LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventyfive ; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, "If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light, — One, if by land, and two, if by sea...
Pagina 92 - So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm, — A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore...
Pagina 50 - I see multitudes of people passing over it," said I, " and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.' As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and, upon...
Pagina 105 - Neither locks had they to their doors, nor bars to their windows ; But their dwellings were open as day and the hearts of the owners ; There the richest was poor, and the poorest lived in abundance.
Pagina 53 - Camelot; And up and down the people go Gazing where the lilies blow Round an island there below, The island of Shalott. Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver Thro' the wave that runs for ever By the island in the river Flowing down to Camelot.
Pagina 68 - Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention, and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
Pagina 69 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.