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.
Webster. “Smallness; littleness, minuteness, weakness.”—­Walker’s Dict., et al.Galless, adj.  Free from gall or bitterness.”—­Webster cor.Tallness; height of stature, upright length with comparative slenderness.”—­Webster’s Dict.Willful; stubborn, contumacious, perverse, inflexible.”—­See ib. “He guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.”—­See ib. “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”—­FRIENDS’ BIBLE:  Ps. xxiv, 1.  “What is now, is but an amassment of imaginary conceptions.”—­Glanville cor.Embarrassment; perplexity, entanglement.”—­Walker.  “The second is slothfulness, whereby they are performed slackly and carelessly.”—­ Perkins cor.Installment; induction into office, part of a large sum of money, to be paid at a particular time.”—­See Webster’s Dict.Inthrallment; servitude, slavery, bondage.”—­Ib.

   “I, who at some times spend, at others spare,
    Divided between carelessness and care.”—­Pope cor.

RULE VII.—­RETAINING.

Shall, on the contrary, in the first person, simply foretells.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 41; Comly’s, 38; Cooper’s, 51; Lennie’s, 26.  “There are a few compound irregular verbs, as befall, bespeak, &c.”—­Ash cor. “That we might frequently recall it to our memory.”—­Calvin cor. “The angels exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.”—­Id.Inthrall; to enslave, to shackle, to reduce to servitude.”—­Johnson.  “He makes resolutions, and fulfills them by new ones.”—­See Webster.  “To enroll my humble name upon the list of authors on Elocution.”—­See Webster. “Forestall; to anticipate, to take up beforehand.”—­Johnson. “Miscall; to call wrong, to name improperly.”—­Webster. “Bethrall; to enslave, to reduce to bondage.”—­Id.Befall; to happen to, to come to pass.”—­Walkers Dict.Unroll; to open what is rolled or convolved.”—­Webster’s Dict.Counterroll; to keep copies of accounts to prevent frauds.”—­See ib. “As Sisyphus uprolls a rock, which constantly overpowers him at the summit.”—­G.  Brown. “Unwell; not well, indisposed, not in good health.”—­Webster. “Undersell; to defeat by selling for less, to sell cheaper than an other.”—­Johnson. “Inwall; to enclose or fortify with a wall.”—­Id.Twibill; an instrument with two bills, or with a point and a blade; a pickaxe, a mattock, a halberd, a battleaxe.”—­Dict. cor. “What you miscall their folly, is their care.”—­Dryden cor. “My heart will sigh when I miscall it so.”—­Shak. cor. “But if the arrangement recalls one set of ideas more readily than an other.”—­Murray’s Gram., Vol. i, p. 334.

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