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stuff;
And I must own, thou’st
measured out enough.”—Shenst. cor.
“This day, dear Bee,
is thy nativity;
Had Fate a luckier one, she’d
give it thee.”—Swift cor.
UNDER NOTE III.—WHO AND WHICH.
“Exactly like so many puppets, which are moved by wires.”—Blair cor. “They are my servants, whom I brought forth[535] out of the land of Egypt.”—Leviticus, xxv, 55. “Behold, I and the children whom God hath given me.”—See Isaiah, viii, 18. “And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe.”—Isaiah, xxxvii, 2. “In a short time the streets were cleared of the corpses which filled them.”—M’Ilvaine cor. “They are not of those who teach things that they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.”—Barclay cor. “As a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep; which, if he go through, both treadeth down and teareth in pieces.”—Bible cor. “Frequented by every fowl which nature has taught to dip the wing in water.”—Johnson cor. “He had two sons, one of whom was adopted by the family of Maximus.”—Lempriere cor. “And the ants, which are collected by the smell, are burned with fire.”—The Friend cor. “They being the agents to whom this thing was trusted.”—Nixon cor. “A packhorse which is driven constantly one way and the other, to and from market.”—Locke cor. “By instructing children, whose affection will be increased.”—Nixon cor. “He had a comely young woman, who travelled with him.”—Hutchinson cor. “A butterfly, who thought himself an accomplished traveller, happened to light upon a beehive.”—Inst., p. 267. “It is an enormous elephant of stone, which disgorges from his uplifted trunk a vast but graceful shower.”—Ware cor. “He was met by a dolphin, which sometimes swam before him, and sometimes behind him.”—Edward’s Gram. cor.
“That Caesar’s horse,
which, as fame goes,
Had corns upon his feet and
toes,
Was not by half so tender-hoof’d,
Nor trod upon the ground so
soft.”—Butler cor.
UNDER NOTE IV.—NOUNS OF MULTITUDE.
