[Sidenote:  Which ... that ... that.]

15.  That evil influence which carried me first away from my father’s house, that hurried me into the wild and undigested notion of making my fortune, and that impressed these conceits so forcibly upon me.—­DEFOE.

ADJECTIVE PRONOUNS.

[Sidenote:  Each other, one another.]

421.  The student is sometimes troubled whether to use each other or one another in expressing reciprocal relation or action.  Whether either one refers to a certain number of persons or objects, whether or not the two are equivalent, may be gathered from a study of the following sentences:—­

     They [Ernest and the poet] led one another, as it were, into
     the high pavilion of their thoughts.—­HAWTHORNE.

     Men take each other’s measure when they meet for the first
     time.—­EMERSON.

     You ruffian! do you fancy I forget that we were fond of each
     other?—­THACKERAY.

     England was then divided between kings and Druids, always at war
     with one another, carrying off each other’s cattle and
     wives.—­BREWER

     The topics follow each other in the happiest order.—­MACAULAY.

     The Peers at a conference begin to pommel each other.—­Id.

     We call ourselves a rich nation, and we are filthy and foolish
     enough to thumb each other’s books out of circulating
     libraries.—­RUSKIN.

     The real hardships of life are now coming fast upon us; let us
     not increase them by dissension among each other.—­GOLDSMITH.

     In a moment we were all shaking hands with one
     another.—­DICKENS.

     The unjust purchaser forces the two to bid against each
     other.—­RUSKIN.

[Sidenote:  Distributives either and neither.]

422.  By their original meaning, either and neither refer to only two persons or objects; as, for example,—­

     Some one must be poor, and in want of his gold—­or his corn. 
     Assume that no one is in want of either.—­RUSKIN

     Their [Ernest’s and the poet’s] minds accorded into one strain,
     and made delightful music which neither could have claimed as
     all his own.—­HAWTHORNE.

[Sidenote:  Use of any.]

Sometimes these are made to refer to several objects, in which case any should be used instead; as,—­

Was it the winter’s storm? was it hard labor and spare meals? was it disease? was it the tomahawk?  Is it possible that neither of these causes, that not all combined, were able to blast this bud of hope?—­EVERETT.

Once I took such delight in Montaigne ...; before that, in Shakespeare; then in Plutarch; then in Plotinus; at one time in Bacon; afterwards in Goethe; even in Bettine; but now I turn the pages of either of them languidly, whilst I still cherish their genius.—­EMERSON.

[Sidenote:  Any usually plural.]