of my life.”—­Id., Speech, 1839.  “Present, bide, or abide; Past, bode, or abode.”—­Coar’s Gram., p. 104.  “I awaked up last of all.”—­Ecclus., xxxiii, 16.  “For this are my knees bended before the God of the spirits of all flesh.”—­Wm. Penn.  “There was never a prince bereaved of his dependencies,” &c.—­Bacon.  “Madam, you have bereft me of all words.”—­Shakspeare.  “Reave, reaved or reft, reaving, reaved or reft. Bereave is similar.”—­Ward’s Practical Gram., p. 65.  “And let them tell their tales of woful ages, long ago betid.”—­Shak.  “Of every nation blent, and every age.”—­Pollok, C. of T., B vii, p. 153.  “Rider and horse,—­friend, foe,—­in one red burial blent!”—­Byron, Harold, C. iii, st. 28.  “I builded me houses.”—­Ecclesiastes, ii, 4.  “For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.”—­Heb. iii, 4.  “What thy hands builded not, thy wisdom gained.”—­Milton’s P. L., X, 373.  “Present, bet; Past, bet; Participle, bet.”—­ Mackintosh’s Gram., p. 197; Alexander’s, 38.  “John of Gaunt loved him well, and betted much upon his head.”—­SHAKSPEARE:  Joh.  Dict, w.  Bet.  “He lost every earthly thing he betted.”—­PRIOR:  ib. “A seraph kneeled.”—­Pollok, C. T., p. 95.

   “At first, he declared he himself would be blowed,
    Ere his conscience with such a foul crime he would load.”
        —­J.  R. Lowell.

“They are catched without art or industry.”—­Robertson’s Amer.,-Vol. i, p. 302.  “Apt to be catched and dazzled.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 26.  “The lion being catched in a net.”—­Art of Thinking, p. 232.  “In their self-will they digged down a wall.”—­Gen., xlix, 6.  “The royal mother instantly dove to the bottom and brought up her babe unharmed.”—­ Trumbull’s America, i, 144.  “The learned have diven into the secrets of nature.”—­CARNOT:  Columbian Orator, p. 82.  “They have awoke from that ignorance in which they had slept.”—­London Encyclopedia.  “And he slept and dreamed the second time.”—­Gen., xli, 5.  “So I awoke.”—­Ib., 21.  “But he hanged the chief baker.”—­Gen., xl, 22.  “Make as if you hanged yourself.”—­ARBUTHNOT:  in Joh.  Dict. “Graven by art and man’s device.”—­Acts, xvii, 29. “Grav’d on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.”—­Gray.  “That the tooth of usury may be grinded.”—­Lord Bacon.  “MILN-EE, The hole from which the grinded corn falls into the chest below.”—­Glossary of Craven, London, 1828.  “UNGRUND, Not grinded.”—­ Ibid. “And he built the inner court with three rows of