Each particular hue and tint stands by itself.—­NEWMAN.

     Every law and usage was a man’s expedient.—­EMERSON.

     Here is no ruin, no discontinuity, no spent ball.—­Id.

     Every week, nay, almost every day, was set down in their
     calendar for some appropriate celebration.—­PRESCOTT.

[Sidenote:  Plural verb.]

441.  The plural form of the verb is used—­

(1) When the subject is plural in form and in meaning; as,—­

     These bits of wood were covered on every square.—­SWIFT.

     Far, far away thy children leave the land.—­GOLDSMITH.

     The Arabian poets were the historians and moralists.—­GIBBON.

(2) When the subject is a collective noun in which the individuals of the collection are thought of; as,—­

     A multitude go mad about it.—­EMERSON.

     A great number of people were collected at a vendue.—­FRANKLIN.

     All our household are at rest.—­COLERIDGE.

     A party of workmen were removing the horses.—­LEW WALLACE

     The fraternity were inclined to claim for him the honors of
     canonization.—­SCOTT.

     The travelers, of whom there were a number.—­B.  TAYLOR.

     (3) When the subject consists of several singulars connected by
     and, making up a plural subject, for example,—­

     Only Vice and Misery are abroad.—­CARLYLE

     But its authorship, its date, and its history are alike a
     mystery to us.—­FROUDE.

     His clothes, shirt, and skin were all of the same color—­SWIFT.

     Aristotle and Longinus are better understood by him than
     Littleton or Coke.—­ADDISON.

[Sidenote:  Conjunction omitted.]

The conjunction may be omitted, as in Sec. 440 (5, b), but the verb is plural, as with a subject of plural form.

     A shady grove, a green pasture, a stream of fresh water, are
     sufficient to attract a colony.—­GIBBON.

     The Dauphin, the Duke of Berri, Philip of Anjou, were men of
     insignificant characters.—­MACAULAY

     (4) When a singular is joined with a plural by a disjunctive
     word, the verb agrees with the one nearest it; as,—­

     One or two of these perhaps survive.—­THOREAU.

     One or two persons in the crowd were insolent.—­FROUDE.

     One or two of the ladies were going to leave.—­ADDISON

     One or two of these old Cromwellian soldiers were still alive
     in the village.—­THACKERAY

     One or two of whom were more entertaining.—­DE QUINCEY.