The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.

The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.
“Meetings for worship are held, at the same hour, on Firstday and Fourthday.”  Or:—­“on Firstdays and Fourthdays.”—­Id. “Every part of it, inside and outside, is covered with gold leaf.”—­Id. “The Eastern Quarterly Meeting is held on the last Seventhday in Secondmonth, Fifthmonth, Eighthmonth, and Eleventhmonth.”—­Id. “Trenton Preparative Meeting is held on the third Fifthday in each month, at ten o’clock; meetings for worship [are held,] at the same hour, on Firstdays and Fifthdays.”—­Id. “Ketch, a vessel with two masts, a mainmast and a mizzenmast.”—­Webster cor. “I only mean to suggest a doubt, whether nature has enlisted herself [either] as a Cis-Atlantic or [as a] Trans-Atlantic partisan.”—­Jefferson cor. “By large hammers, like those used for paper-mills and fulling-mills, they beat their hemp.”—­Johnson cor. “ANT-HILL, or ANT-HILLOCK, n.  A small protuberance of earth, formed by ants, for their habitation.”—­ Id. “It became necessary to substitute simple indicative terms called pronames or pronouns.”

   “Obscur’d, where highest woods, impenetrable
    To light of star or sun, their umbrage spread.”—­Milton cor.

RULE V.—­THE HYPHEN.

Evil-thinking; a noun, compounded of the noun evil and the imperfect participle thinking; singular number;” &c.—­Churchill cor.Evil-speaking; a noun, compounded of the noun evil and the imperfect participle speaking.”—­Id. “I am a tall, broad-shouldered, impudent, black fellow.”—­Spect, or Joh. cor. “Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend.”—­Shak. or Joh. cor. “A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyranny.”—­Sydney or Joh. cor. “He from the many-peopled city flies.”—­Sandys or Joh. cor. “He many-languaged nations has surveyed.”—­Pope or Joh. cor. “The horse-cucumber is the large green cucumber, and the best for the table.”—­Mort. or Joh. cor. “The bird of night did sit, even at noon-day, upon the market-place.”—­Shak. or Joh. cor. “These make a general gaol-delivery of souls not for punishment.”—­South or Joh. cor. “Thy air, thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first.”—­Shak. or Joh. cor. “His person was deformed to the highest degree; flat-nosed and blobber-lipped.”—­L’Estr. or Joh. cor. “He that defraudeth the labourer of his hire, is a blood-shedder.”—­Ecclus., xxxiv, 22. “Bloody-minded, adj., from bloody and mind; Cruel, inclined to bloodshed.”—­Johnson cor.Blunt-witted lord, ignoble in demeanour.”—­Shak.

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