1.  The sun stared brazenly down on a gray farmhouse, on ranges of whitewashed outbuildings, and on a goodly array of dark-thatched ricks.

2.  In his shabby frieze jacket and mud-laden brogans, he was scarcely an attractive object.

3.  In a sunlit corner of an old coquina fort they came suddenly face to face with a familiar figure.

4.  Somewhat back from the village street
    Stands the old-fashioned country seat. 
    Across its antique portico
    Tall poplar trees their shadows throw,
    And from its station in the hall
    An ancient timepiece says to all: 
      “Forever—­never! 
       Never—­forever!”

—­Longfellow:  The Old Clock on the Stairs.

5.  There was a room which bore the appearance of a vault.  Four spandrels from the corners ran up to join a sharp cup-shaped roof.  The architecture was rough, but very strong.  It was evidently part of a great building.

6.  The officer proceeded, without affecting to hear the words which escaped the sentinel in his surprise; nor did he again pause, until he had reached the low strand, and in a somewhat dangerous vicinity to the western water bastion of the fort.

7.  She stood on the top step under the porte-cochere, on the extreme edge, so that the toes of her small slippers extended a little over it.  She bent forward, and then tipped back on the high, exiguous heels again.

8.  Before the caryatides of the fireplace, under the ancestral portraits, a valet moves noiselessly about, arranging the glistening silver service on the long table and putting in order the fruits, sweets, and ices.

9.  No sooner is the heavy gate of the portal passed than one sees from afar among the leafage the court of honor, to which one comes along an alley decorated uniformly with upright square shafts like classic termae in stone and bronze.  The impression of the antique lines is striking:  it springs at once to the eyes, at first in this portico with columns and a heavy entablature, but lacking a pediment.

B. Read again the selections beginning on page 46.  Do you form complete images in every case?

C. Notice in each of your lessons for to-day what images are incomplete.  Bring to class a list of the words you would need to look up in order to form complete images.  Do not include all the words whose meanings are not clear, but only those that assist in forming images.

+Theme XII.+—­Form a clear mental image of some incident, person, or place.  Write about it, using such words as will give your classmates complete and accurate images.  The following may suggest a subject:—­

1.  A party dress I should like. 2.  My room. 3.  A cozy glen. 4.  In the apple orchard. 5.  Going to the fire. 6.  The hand-organ man. 7.  A hornets’ nest. 8.  The last inning. 9.  An exciting race.

(Consider what you have written with reference to the images which the reader will form.  Do you think that when the members of the class hear your theme, each will form the same images that you had in mind when writing?  Notice how many of your sentences begin in the same way.  Can you rewrite them so as to give variety?)