Gram., p. 154.  “Architecture is an useful as well as a fine art.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 335.  “Because the same individual conjunctions do not preserve an uniform signification.”—­Nutting’s Gram., p. 78.  “Such a work required the patience and assiduity of an hermit.”—­Johnson’s Life of Morin.  “Resentment is an union of sorrow with malignity.”—­Rambler, No. 185.  “His bravery, we know, was an high courage of blasphemy.”—­Pope.  “Hyssop; a herb of bitter taste.”—­Pike’s Heb.  Lex., p. 3.

   “On each enervate string they taught the note
    To pant, or tremble through an Eunuch’s throat.”—­Pope.

UNDER NOTE II.—­AN OR A WITH PLURALS.

“At a sessions of the court in March, it was moved,” &c.—­Hutchinson’s Hist. of Mass., i, 61.  “I shall relate my conversations, of which I kept a memoranda.”—­Duchess D’Abrantes, p. 26.  “I took another dictionary, and with a scissors cut out, for instance, the word ABACUS.”—­A.  B. Johnson’s Plan of a Dict., p. 12.  “A person very meet seemed he for the purpose, of a forty-five years old.”—­Gardiner’s Music of Nature, p. 338.  “And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings.”—­Luke, ix, 28.”  There were slain of them upon a three thousand men.”—­1 Mac., iv, 15.”  Until I had gained the top of these white mountains, which seemed another Alps of snow.”—­Addison, Tat., No. 161.  “To make them a satisfactory amends for all the losses they had sustained.”—­Goldsmith’s Greece, p. 187.  “As a first fruits of many more that shall be gathered.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 506.  “It makes indeed a little amends, by inciting us to oblige people.”—­Sheffield’s Works, ii, 229.  “A large and lightsome backstairs leads up to an entry above.”—­Ib., p. 260.  “Peace of mind is an honourable amends for the sacrifices of interest.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 162; Smith’s, 138.  “With such a spirit and sentiments were hostilities carried on.”—­Robertson’s America, i, 166.  “In the midst of a thick woods, he had long lived a voluntary recluse.”—­G.  B.  “The flats look almost like a young woods.”—­Morning Chronicle.  “As we went on, the country for a little ways improved, but scantily.”—­Essex County Freeman, Vol. ii, No. 11.  “Whereby the Jews were permitted to return into their own country, after a seventy years captivity at Babylon.”—­Rollin’s An.  Hist., Vol. ii, p. 20.  “He did riot go a great ways into the country.”—­Gilbert’s Gram., p. 85.

   “A large amends by fortune’s hand is made,
    And the lost Punic blood is well repay’d.”—­Rowe’s Lucan, iv, 1241.

UNDER NOTE III.—­NOUNS CONNECTED.