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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt:...is singular that you should make that mistake," how is the subject modified? 262. Parse the italicized words in the following: "He ran so fast that I could not overtake him." "He spoke loud that I might hear him." 203. Write a sentence using when as a noun. 264. Write a sentence having would as principal verb. 265. Wrjte a sentence using worse as a noun. 266. In the sentence, "I told him that we should be there," to what does the adjunct him belong? Analysis. 267. I am the man who commands. 268. More worth to men, more joyous to themselves. 209. Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose The village preacher's modest mansion rose. 270. There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. 271. Loveliest of lovely things are they, on earth, that soonest pass away. 272. What in me is dark, » Illumine; what is low, raise and support. 273. In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt die. 274. I know a bank whereon the wild thyme grows. 275. The Son of man had not a place where to lay his head. 276. While on this part of the subject, I may remark. 277. "Night, sable goddess, from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden, o'er a slumbering world." 278. Having first procured guides, we began our ascent of the mountain. 279. The sea is as deep as the mountains are high. 280. Go where we may, we find traces of sin. 281. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, Save where the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful. 282. It is here that he saw me. 283. It is true that he saw me. 284. £10,000 worth of sugar were de...