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...nuteness of discrimination which we are not accustomed to expect from mere verbal description. It is because Mr. Scott usually delineates those object... ... find the participle winded in Much Ado, i. 1. 243; but it is = blown. The verb in that sense is derived from the noun wind (air in motion), and has n... ...ained by Endrick Water. 584. Peril aught. Incur any peril. Milton uses the verb intran- sitively in Reason of Church Government, ii. 3: “it may peril ... ...ciple (here used for the sake of the rhyme) was formerly not un- common in verbs ending in d and t. Thus in Shakespeare we find the participles bloat ... ...f conversation.” 829. On the morn. Modifying should circle, not the nearer verb had sworn. 831. The Fiery Cross. See on iii. 18 below. 846. Point. Poi... ...ng. The phrase illustrates the difference between the parti- ciple and the verbal noun (or whatever it may be called) in - ing. Cf. “a laboring man” a... ...ve; as also for snooded. 488. Unwitting. Unknowing. Cf. 367 above. For the verb wit, see on i. 596 above. 495. Kerchief. Curch, which is etymologicall... ...idly fond thy praise to hear.” 421. Atone. Atone for. Shakespeare uses the verb transitively several times, but in the sense of reconcile; as in Rich.... ...f these trains hath sought to win me Into his power.” Cf. the use of the verb (= allure, entice); as in C. of E. iii. 2. 45: “O, train me not, sweet...

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... “Because when the parents speak of that child now, they always call it Susan Amelia.” That spiked my gun. I could not say anything. I was en- tirely ... ...ing- parentheses, one of which is placed in the first line of the majestic sentence and the other in the middle of the last line of it—after which com... ...ther in the middle of the last line of it—after which comes the verb, and you find out for the first time what the man has been talking about; and aft... ...ree from at- tacks of the Parenthesis distemper—though they are usually so mild as to cover only a few lines, and therefore when you at last get down ... ...for the assistance of the reader—though in the original there are no parenthesis- marks or hyphens, and the reader is left to flounder through to the ... ...tc.* That is from The Old Mamselle’s Secret, by Mrs. Marlitt. And that sentence is constructed upon the most approved German model. You observe how fa... ...ucted upon the most approved German model. You observe how far that verb is from the reader’s base of operations; well, in a German newspaper they put... ...s after stringing along the exciting prelimi- naries and parentheses for a column or two, they get in a hurry and have to go to press without getting ... ...e the dreaded jerk. Parentheses in lit- erature and dentistry are in bad taste. The Germans have another kind of parenthesis, which they make by split...

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...of men. His short references to ‘that Warwick- Dannisburgh affair’ are not verbally malicious. He gets wind of the terms of Lord Dannisburgh’s will an... ... this, which might have a secret personal signification: ‘We women are the verbs pas- sive of the alliance; we have to learn, and if we take to activ-... ...ne cried, on her solitary height, with the full accent of envy marking the verb; and when she wrote enviously to her friend of the life among bright i...

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...ifficulty arises from the extreme multiplicity of all its forms: e.g. each verb having not only active, middle, and passive voices, but the primitive ... ...fe of those with whom he asso- ciated. The church was an expression of the verbal teaching committed to its ministers. How clearly the beauty of this ... ...s it is called) as prepositions and adverbs, the mode of changing a neuter verb into a tran- sitive or causative verb, usually by a word prefixed, whi... ...he place of stops, marks of interrogation, &c. ‘Then giving certain nouns, verbs, &c., make my English pupils construct sentences; then give them a vo... ...f historical asso- ciations or previous statements is wonderful; e.g., the verb of which Moses is formed occurs only in Exodus ii. 10, 2 Samuel xxii. ... ...ts of flowers, and the oleanders are a sight! Some azaleas are doing well, verbenas, hibiscus of all kinds. Roses and, alas! clove carnations, and sto...

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...ap off his head, and cast it to the winds. His legs had not only undergone verbal criticisms and revilings, but had been handled and pinched. That ver... ... of carking anxieties. They knew no rest from the pursuit of stony-hearted verbs, savage noun-sub- stantives, inflexible syntactic passages, and ghost... ...ether twenty Romuluses made a Remus, or hic haec hoc was troy weight, or a verb always agreed with an ancient Briton, or three times four was T aurus ... ...d, whether it might not be at once genteel and politic to give Mr Dombey a verbal invita- tion, whenever they should meet, to come and cut his mut- to...

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...said, as if his kind governess had been his enemy. As to Annie, her French verbs were always dreadful things to hear, and the little merry face, usual... ...tle Sarah was soon crowing in her arms. Elizabeth? Not a blunder in French verbs or geography— very tidy copy. French reading good; English equally so...

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...stings and turnings that we made in our pursuit of mutual com- prehension. Verbs were soon plain sailing—at least, such active verbs as I could expres...

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...alk lay on my desk for the convenience of elucidating any grammati- cal or verbal obscurity which might occur in my lessons by writing it upon the tab... ...re were foreign idioms, there were some faults of construction, there were verbs irregular transformed into verbs regular; it was mostly made up, as t...

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...t too late? I wasn’t so backward. I did algebra, and Latin up to auxiliary verbs, and French genders. I got a kind of grounding.” “And now you mean, s...

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...ll – for the newspaper, especially when torn, soon be- comes an antiquity – and bills of the Silverado board- ing-house, some dated Silverado, some Ca... ...t- terance, his rude embarrassed manner, set a fresh value on the stupidity of his remarks. I do not think I ever appreciated the meaning of two words... ...rred about the business of the day. Once, twice, and thrice I tried to slide the subject in, but was discouraged by the stoic apathy of Rufe, and beat...

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... the continent of Europe, and a process of incorporating foreign nouns and verbs com- menced that speedily reached enormous proportions. Within ten ye...

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...ent readers of the most advanced reason and mature time of life. I use the verb ‘to torment,’ as I observed to be your own method, instead of ‘to inst...

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...e form as to formes.” “What, sir! Whose form! I don’t see that there’s any verb in this sentence at all, an’—an’—the Ode is all different, some- how.”...

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...me the breaking point. I was in the little arbour learning Latin irregular verbs when it happened. I can see him still, his peculiar tenor voice still...

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... it?’ ‘It was only that Ada was idle at her lessons; I told her to learn a verb as a punishment, she went to Emily, and, some- how or other, Emily did...

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...c- tacles. How she must be scandalized by the introduction of a noun and a verb!” “Who has been so cruel?” asked Fred. “Busy Bee, I suppose.” “Yes,” s...

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...you eat, they eat”—and what then? Why should ev- ery man decline the whole verb. First person singular is enough for me.’ ‘Y ou’ve got to start with m... ...asised by the continual crackling of a witticism, the continual spatter of verbal jest, designed to give a tone of flippancy to a stream of conversa- ... ...ly silent, listening to the slow, rhapsodic sing- song of Hermione, or the verbal sallies of Sir Joshua, or the prattle of Fraulein, or the responses ... ... a volonte de pouvoir, if you like, a will to ability, taking pouvoir as a verb.’ ‘Ah—! Sophistries! It’s the old Adam.’ ‘Oh yes. Adam kept Eve in the... ...sted, you don’t want it any different.’ He was speaking as if in a trance, verbal and blank. Then suddenly he braced himself up with a kind of rhapsod... ...stivity, and they wanted to keep it on the plane of suggestion. From their verbal and physical nuances they got the highest satisfaction in the nerves... ... them, they were both so happy, tossing about the little coloured balls of verbal humour and whimsi- cality. Their natures seemed to sparkle in full i... ...a! Ha!’ she laughed, warmed by the whimsical way in which he mocked at her verbal extravagances. He was always teasing her, mocking her ways. But as h...

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... quiries, that nobody had the least idea of the etymology of this terrible verb passive to be gormed; but that they all regarded it as consti- tuting ... ...I recollect, to decline a Latin noun or adjective, or to conjugate a Latin verb, in his ear, while he transacted my business. After all these occasion...

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...favor of the good God.” “We shall see,” replied the count. Fatal word! The verb “to see” has no future tense for poli- ticians. At the moment, Montcor...

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... little minds, was terribly afraid of being carotte. The noun has become a verb. From the very start of his passion for Madame Schontz, Arthur was on ...