Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing Specimens and Examples of School and College Exercises, and Most of the Higher Departments of English Composition, Both in Prose and Verse |
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... short , cold , inflexible , wide , tasteless , water proof , useful . Its uses : for windows to admit light : For spectacles to assist sight : For useful vessels , such as tumblers , pitchers , decanters , wine - glasses , jelly ...
... short , cold , inflexible , wide , tasteless , water proof , useful . Its uses : for windows to admit light : For spectacles to assist sight : For useful vessels , such as tumblers , pitchers , decanters , wine - glasses , jelly ...
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... short tail . Tutor . I can tell you what that bird was a kingfisher , the celebrated halcyon of the ancients , about which so many tales are told . It lives on fish , which it catches in the manner you saw . It builds in holes in the ...
... short tail . Tutor . I can tell you what that bird was a kingfisher , the celebrated halcyon of the ancients , about which so many tales are told . It lives on fish , which it catches in the manner you saw . It builds in holes in the ...
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... short round , they settled again , and presently rose again in the same manner . I dare say there were hundreds of them . Tutor . Perhaps so ; for , in the fenny counties , their flocks are sc numerous , as to break down whole acres of ...
... short round , they settled again , and presently rose again in the same manner . I dare say there were hundreds of them . Tutor . Perhaps so ; for , in the fenny counties , their flocks are sc numerous , as to break down whole acres of ...
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... short . " A compound sentence contains two or more simple sen- tences , joined together by one or more connecting words . As , " Life is short , and art is long . " The different parts of a compound sentence are called members . Clauses ...
... short . " A compound sentence contains two or more simple sen- tences , joined together by one or more connecting words . As , " Life is short , and art is long . " The different parts of a compound sentence are called members . Clauses ...
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... short , at least , more ver , again . first , secondly , thirdly , lastly , once more , on the contrary , & c . 4. The words of another writer , not formally introduced as a quota- ion , and words and clauses expressing contrast or ...
... short , at least , more ver , again . first , secondly , thirdly , lastly , once more , on the contrary , & c . 4. The words of another writer , not formally introduced as a quota- ion , and words and clauses expressing contrast or ...
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Common terms and phrases
accent acute accent adverb Allowable rhymes Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character clause comma composition compound compound sentence consists derived earth effect English English language Example 1st Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure following sentence Francesco Doria frequently give grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination kind labor lady language Latin Latin language letter literary look manner means mind moral nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia participles of verbs phrases pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles pronoun proper proposition prose remarkable rule Saxon sense short signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable tautology thing third persons singular thou thought tion Trochaic Trochee truth verse virtue words writer written young