require care, lest the distributive or collective term be so placed that its construction and meaning may be misapprehended.  Examples:  “We have turned every one to his own way.”—­Isaiah, liii, 6.  Better:  “We have every one turned to his own way.”  “For in many things we offend all.”—­James, iii, 2.  Better:  “For in many things we all offend.”  The latter readings doubtless convey the true sense of these texts.  To the relation of apposition, it may be proper also to refer the construction of a singular noun taken in a distributive sense and repeated after by to denote order; as, “They went out one by one.”—­Bible.  “Our whole company, man by man, ventured in.”—­Goldsmith.  “To examine a book, page by page; to search a place, house by house.”—­Ward’s Gram., p. 106.  So too, perhaps, when the parts of a thing explain the whole; as,

   “But those that sleep, and think not on their sins,
    Pinch them, arms, legs, backs, shoulders, sides, and shins.”
        —­Shak.

OBS. 14.—­To express a reciprocal action or relation, the pronominal adjectives each other and one an other are employed:  as, “They love each other;”—­“They love one an other.”  The words, separately considered, are singular; but, taken together, they imply plurality; and they can be properly construed only after plurals, or singulars taken conjointly. Each other is usually applied to two persons or things; and one an other, to more than two.  The impropriety of applying them otherwise, is noticed elsewhere; (see, in Part II, Obs. 15th, on the Classes of Adjectives;) so that we have here to examine only their relations of case.  The terms, though reciprocal and closely united, are seldom or never in the same construction.  If such expressions be analyzed, each and one will generally appear to be in the nominative case, and other in the objective; as, “They love each other;” i. e. each loves the other.  “They love one an other;” i. e. any or every one loves any or every other. Each and one (—­if the words be taken as cases, and not adjectively—­) are properly in agreement or apposition with they, and other is governed by the verb.  The terms, however, admit of other constructions; as, “Be ye helpers one of an other.”—­Bible.  Here one is in apposition with ye, and other is governed by of.  “Ye are one an other’s joy.”—­Ib. Here one is in apposition with ye, and other’s is in the possessive case, being governed by joy.  “Love will make you one an other’s joy.”  Here one is in the objective case, being in apposition with you, and other’s is governed as before. “Men’s confidence