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Eric Lease Morgan
Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?'
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122
Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?"
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73802
Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy)
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82
Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?"
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55 word
41 man
41 Mr.
36 God
34 good
34 English
33 John
33 England
29 New
28 like
27 time
27 illustration
27 great
22 little
22 form
22 Latin
19 day
18 thing
18 life
17 work
17 person
16 Lord
15 sentence
15 mean
14 long
14 York
14 Sir
14 Old
13 american
13 United
12 letter
11 place
11 mind
11 look
11 come
11 States
11 London
11 Europe
10 way
10 book
10 South
10 Saxon
10 LESSON
9 sound
9 power
9 Rome
9 Greek
8 water
8 point
8 old
Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?"
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23138 word
20735 n.
15599 man
15528 p.
10124 time
9108 name
8388 form
8027 thing
7842 part
7572 person
6960 day
6855 sentence
5750 place
5720 one
5637 way
5597 verb
5377 language
5280 life
5186 case
5127 use
4961 noun
4741 water
4614 work
4514 hand
4474 year
4450 letter
4419 book
4085 number
4084 tree
4061 kind
4012 sense
3895 sound
3825 people
3824 subject
3643 foot
3633 child
3617 line
3592 order
3567 mind
3533 state
3530 power
3454 eye
3445 meaning
3384 head
3380 example
3299 other
3265 boy
3254 bird
3250 house
3176 point
Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?"
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629992 _
15613 .
9083 c
8606 L.
6586 Fr
6298 adj
4986 v.t
4900 cor
4706 c.
4462 Gr
4442 English
4117 |
4013 Gram
3370 New
2864 A.S.
2775 hw
2725 Shak
2714 God
2683 n.
2397 O.
2355 thou
2348 Ger
2201 Mr.
2049 un
1892 John
1748 s.
1716 E.
1685 England
1580 v.i
1575 Murray
1533 Lat
1509 B.
1481 Latin
1404 South
1392 Australia
1387 e
1377 OBS
1373 J.
1347 Greek
1323 M.
1267 W.
1241 q.v
1231 Scot
1201 Old
1160 V.
1146 Defn
1143 Spens
1139 Lord
1138 Sir
1135 C.
Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?"
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59988 it
52556 i
40261 he
27052 you
22608 they
22396 we
12759 them
11712 him
8887 me
7315 she
6117 us
3250 one
2868 himself
2769 her
2055 itself
1752 themselves
915 myself
706 thee
604 yourself
576 ourselves
545 yours
357 herself
317 oneself
219 mine
171 thyself
163 theirs
122 em
101 ours
81 his
81 ''s
73 ye
68 ''em
48 þe
35 yourselves
28 thy
24 >
20 hers
17 hymself
17 ay
13 þu
12 u
9 ya
9 ne
7 wr
7 s
7 ng
7 hisself
6 |
6 pelf
6 ii
Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?"
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247481 be
59316 have
24302 do
19246 make
16562 see
16241 say
15174 use
11994 give
10202 take
10201 go
9702 come
9110 call
8108 know
7690 find
6401 follow
6355 write
5496 think
4693 tell
4681 speak
4218 look
4100 mean
4086 put
4065 let
3980 become
3888 express
3836 form
3630 get
3454 keep
3419 seem
3384 stand
3362 bring
3329 hear
3301 show
3220 leave
3121 fall
3119 begin
3063 hold
3013 apply
2987 bear
2956 read
2867 live
2808 turn
2723 set
2672 pass
2661 run
2651 grow
2583 ask
2482 learn
2404 lie
2402 carry
Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?"
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43326 not
14397 so
12151 more
12065 other
9143 great
8964 very
8861 good
8734 up
8352 well
8255 first
8112 only
7834 also
7764 same
7478 out
7358 now
7160 then
7058 little
7007 many
6577 long
6550 such
6412 as
6294 most
5973 old
5587 much
5153 here
4575 small
4498 never
4440 down
4226 common
4224 own
4174 often
3949 thus
3790 always
3726 large
3714 even
3696 high
3686 too
3648 last
3588 sometimes
3514 still
3300 away
3278 again
3253 different
3096 short
3036 there
2960 off
2931 general
2930 just
2886 certain
2863 together
Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?"
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2222 good
1644 most
1106 least
817 great
631 high
316 Most
250 large
227 bad
202 early
182 low
181 near
145 small
143 old
137 fine
119 strong
112 simple
111 noble
104 late
103 slight
96 deep
95 eld
89 common
87 manif
78 young
67 l
65 short
61 wise
61 pure
59 long
58 rich
55 easy
53 full
45 fair
45 bright
44 wide
42 poor
36 brave
35 tall
34 able
33 happy
33 clear
32 true
32 sweet
30 hard
30 dear
29 close
28 sure
28 few
26 mean
26 j
Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?"
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4649 most
390 well
176 least
12 worst
12 highest
9 lest
5 near
5 fast
3 shortest
3 oftenest
3 lowest
3 hard
3 goethe
3 eldest
2 walkest
2 soon
2 long
2 liest
2 latest
2 greatest
2 bothe
1 writhe
1 woest
1 whitest
1 waitest
1 tost
1 tet''ter
1 tempest
1 t[=i]eman
1 strangest
1 speakest
1 slowest
1 severest
1 safest
1 potest
1 oldest
1 northermost
1 method.--first
1 m_e_.---virtue
1 lædest
1 lovest
1 lovedest
1 loudest
1 loftiest
1 likest
1 innermost
1 hon''est
1 hoest
1 handiest
1 goest
Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?"
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10 www.gutenberg.net
8 www.gutenberg.org
6 www.dicdata.de
4 mrhoney.purespace.de
4 dict.leo.org
2 www.leo.org
1 www.shipbrook.net
1 gallica.bnf.fr.<
Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?"
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6 http://www.gutenberg.org
6 http://www.dicdata.de
4 http://mrhoney.purespace.de/latest.htm
4 http://dict.leo.org
2 http://www.leo.org/dict/cd_en.html
2 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/9/9/0/19906/19906-h/19906-h.htm
1 http://www.shipbrook.net/jeff/bookshelf
1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34316/34316-h/34316-h.htm
1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34316/34316-h.zip
1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/8/0/9/28097/28097-h/28097-h.htm
1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/8/0/9/28097/28097-h.zip
1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/0/9/3/20938/20938-h/20938-h.htm
1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/0/9/3/20938/20938-h.zip
1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/9/9/0/19906/19906-h.zip)]
1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/9/9/0/19906/19906-h.zip
1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/8/2/15825/15825-h/15825-h.htm
1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/8/2/15825/15825-h.zip
1 http://gallica.bnf.fr.
Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?"
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4 winfried.honig@online.de
Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?"
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857 _ is _
459 _ are _
328 _ be _
288 _ was _
286 _ is not
278 _ were _
261 _ have _
236 _ see _
210 _ do _
198 _ has _
172 _ means _
121 _ is often
107 _ does not
105 _ is sometimes
101 _ had _
92 _ did _
91 _ is always
91 _ is more
87 _ being _
86 _ make _
76 _ are not
75 _ go _
72 _ is also
70 _ is now
63 _ let _
62 _ form _
61 _ saw _
60 _ speak _
58 _ am _
57 _ do not
55 _ having many
54 _ is here
53 _ come _
53 _ made _
52 _ give _
52 word is _
49 one is _
47 _ know _
45 _ mean _
45 _ think _
44 _ keep _
43 _ use _
41 _ look _
40 _ get _
40 _ is commonly
39 word is not
39 words are not
38 _ do n''t
38 _ done _
38 _ is generally
Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?"
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17 _ is not _
13 _ is not so
8 _ is not only
7 _ do not _
6 _ is no part
6 word is not australian
5 _ are not _
5 _ does not _
5 _ is not always
4 _ are not always
4 _ has not _
4 _ have not _
4 _ is no more
4 _ is not here
3 _ am not _
3 _ are not only
3 _ does not fully
3 _ does not necessarily
3 _ has no past
3 _ is not now
3 _ is not very
3 nouns have no plural
3 words are not _
2 _ are not adverbs
2 _ are not nouns
2 _ does not always
2 _ does not here
2 _ expresses no relation
2 _ has no _
2 _ has no etymological
2 _ has no meaning
2 _ has no other
2 _ has no plural
2 _ has no tendency
2 _ have no _
2 _ having no placenta
2 _ is no _
2 _ is no longer
2 _ is no true
2 _ is not consistent
2 _ is not easy
2 _ is not merely
2 _ is not much
2 _ is not necessarily
2 _ is not properly
2 _ is not really
2 _ is not silent
2 _ is not thus
2 _ knows no more
2 _ make no change
A rudimentary bibliography
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id = 22600
author = Abbott, Edwin Abbott
title = How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition
date =
keywords = Bain; Church; English; John; Mr.; Parliament; Smith; Verbs; man; rule; sentence; subject; word; write
summary = teach the art of writing clearly is the main object of these Rules and On the other hand, if a man is to write forcibly, he must (to use a to enable them to write a long English sentence clearly. Be careful in the use of ambiguous words, _e.g._ "certain." This rule forbids the use of the same word in different senses. Be careful how you use the following words: "not ... Be careful in the use of ambiguous words, e.g. sentence.* It is a common fault to break this rule by placing a short The best rule is to avoid placing "only" between two emphatic words, a long sentence like this, treating of many different subjects on one words at the beginning of each sentence.*--Leave out the conjunctions fault is not to be avoided by using different words to mean the same It gives some practical rules for writing a long sentence clearly and
id = 20938
author = Allardyce, Paul
title = "Stops", Or How to Punctuate A Practical Handbook for Writers and Students
date =
keywords = case; comma; mark; place; point; rule; sentence; word
summary = the following words, yet, printed without points, they form a mere form two general rules to guide us when we are in doubt which point we In every sentence the subject, whether expressed in one word or in If the sentence last quoted were inverted, a comma would be placed Words placed out of their natural position in the sentence are usually placed after the verb; when it begins the sentence, a comma morning was come of a mighty day"--such a sentence needs no point. Words in apposition are generally marked off by commas. 1. _AND._--(a) Where "and" joins two single words, as a rule no point Compare this with the following sentence, where groups of words are In the following sentence the insertion of a comma would change the made, the comma, not the mark of exclamation, is the proper point. sentence, even to a single word; the sign is placed as the case may
id = 11065
author = Anonymous
title = Aunt Mary''s Primer Adorned with a Hundred and Twenty Pretty Pictures
date =
keywords = illustration; lesson; mother
summary = When the child knows that word, then point to the next, best to pronounce each syllable separately, _car, pet_,--_po, ker_,--and the child reads the word, and indeed, wherever you can, try to associate Show a child the word _coach_ as a "Lesson on the Senses," make the child understand how to feel cold and [Illustration: A Black-bird.] Make a line like this *I. [Illustration: Here is a House close to a Country Church.] [Illustration: This is a Water-mill, and this is a Wind-mill.] [Illustration: A rustic Bridge, close by some Men making a Hay-stack.] [Illustration: A Man lighting a Gas-lamp.] [Illustration: A Man Ploughing.] [Illustration: A Man thrashing Corn.] [Illustration: Men and Women making Hay.] [Illustration: Betty milks the Cows, while John cuts down trees.] [Illustration: A Man on a Raft.] [Illustration: Men shoot Partridges.] [Illustration: The Horse runs fast.] [Illustration: This dog is called a Spaniel.] [Illustration: The Goldfinch is pretty.]
id = 11230
author = Anonymous
title = Macmillan''s Reading Books. Book V
date =
keywords = B.C.; Columbus; Duke; England; God; Hardy; Heaven; Henry; James; Jew; King; Lord; Mr.; Nelson; Por; Roderick; Shy; Sir; St.; day; death; english; find; good; great; high; leave; life; like; long; look; man; note; place; thy; time
summary = toil he won his way to the front rank among the literary men of his day. on their table next day came across her, till her little eyes glistened, into mere money-making, and let the world take care of itself, for good dead." "Yet," said he, in a lower voice, "one would like to live a [Note:_The death of Nelson_ took place at the Battle of Trafalgar, sea come after me as high as a great hill, and as furious as an enemy, sleepless night, and again the old man called his scholars round him and days shall be told in the words of one who had the best right to record "The armed men in the cloister." As he turned and said, "I shall go out Till the live-long day-light fail: And in the eyes of men great liking find, death we be sure." "Ah, Launcelot," said the King, "the great love
id = 38235
author = Anonymous
title = The Gentleman''s Model Letter-writer A Complete Guide to Correspondence on All Subjects, with Commercial Forms
date =
keywords = DEAR; Form; Gentleman; House; June; London; Mr.; Reply; SIR; invitation
summary = send you and your sister all good old-fashioned New Year''s wishes, that to-morrow at Mrs. E.''s we shall have a little time alone. study of my future days shall be to render your life as happy as you me hear also, dear father, in sending me Mr. Evans''s reply, that you _Reply to a Letter from a young Man informing his Uncle he had _Reply to a Letter from a young Man informing his Uncle he had Thanks for your kind letter and good wishes. Will you, dear William, look out for a good school for my little Let us know at what time you propose leaving London, and we will In reply to your letter, I beg to inform you that all the best _A Gentleman to a Friend, speaking of kindness received in another _A Gentleman to a Friend, speaking of kindness received in another
id = 17594
author = Balch, William Stevens
title = Lectures on Language, as Particularly Connected with English Grammar.
date =
keywords = Europe; God; John; LECTURE; Latin; Mr.; Murray; action; adjective; change; express; form; grammar; idea; language; man; meaning; mind; noun; object; present; principle; thing; verb; word; write
summary = Objects.--Possessive case considered.--A definitive word.--Pronouns.-language, we shall employ the sign as the means of coming at the thing Philosophers.--Things, ideas, and words.--Actions.--Qualities Philosophers.--Things, ideas, and words.--Actions.--Qualities example.--New ideas.--Unknown words.--Signs without things example.--New ideas.--Unknown words.--Signs without things words employed to express complex ideas, and things of immateriality, actions of the mind in obtaining ideas, and the use of language in things, and never employ words till it has ideas to express; never name noun, adjective, or verb, agent or object, past or present. things on the account of the action expressed by the verb from which Things act; Verbs express their actions. words, that every action must terminate on some object, either expressed intransitive verb.--Objects expressed or implied.--All language intransitive verb.--Objects expressed or implied.--All language make verbs, that is, we use words to express action, which are nearly _same_ verb." I should like to know, if these words have any thing
id = 26991
author = Bate, Henry
title = A Short System of English Grammar For the Use of the Boarding School in Worcester (1759)
date =
keywords = Plur; Present; Sing; Tense
summary = 5. The _Future Tense_ expresses the Time to come; as _I shall sup, I The _Imperative Mood_ has the _Signs_ _do, let_; as--_do thou love, let _Sing._ I must, might, wou''d, cou''d, _or_ shou''d have had been; thou _Sing._ I must, might, wou''d, cou''d, _or_ shou''d have had been; thou _Sing._ I must, might, wou''d, cou''d, _or_ shou''d have had been; thou The _Termination_ of the _Infinitive Mood Present Tense, of the Verb _Sing._ I must, might, wou''d, cou''d, _or_ shou''d have been loved; thou _Sing._ I must, might, wou''d, cou''d, _or_ shou''d have been loved; thou _Sing._ I must, might, wou''d, cou''d, _or_ shou''d have been loved; thou _Sing._ I must, might, wou''d, cou''d, _or_ shou''d have been loved; thou _Sing._ I must, might, wou''d, cou''d, _or_ shou''d have been loved; thou Two or more _Nouns_ or _Pronouns Singular_, will have a _Verb Plural_;
id = 4983
author = Bechtel, John Hendricks
title = Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking
date =
keywords = James; John; Mary; Miss; Pronouns; chapter; english; expression; form; good; like; man; mean; person; plural; sentence; think; verb; word
summary = Rarely use a foreign term when your meaning can be as well expressed upon that paper to avoid the use of a long list of words and fact, many speakers and writers in America rarely use the word. Since to get means to obtain, to procure, to gain, the use of the word by cunning, it is better not to use the word in referring to the The use of the word favor in the sense of resemble is a provincialism Both words refer to nouns in the singular, hence such expressions as speaker or writer almost fears to use the word lest he should suggest proper use of the word there is present the idea of purpose or intent. Etymologically and by general use, this word refers to a choice This little word has many meanings and is put to many uses. Although plural in form, the word news is singular in meaning; as,
id = 63292
author = Bellot, Jacques
title = Familiar Dialogues for the Instruction of them, that be desirous to learne to speake English, and perfectlye to pronounce the same
date =
keywords = Bout; Dieu; Drap; God; Houat; Lord; Monsieur; Ser; Syr; tou; vous
summary = will you not rise to voulez vous point ouil you not reis tou God blesse you all, Dieu vous benye tous God bles you àl mey Symon, shall we haue aurons nous vne pinte Seimon, chàl ouy hàf wine you haue: Geue meilleur vin que vous ouein you hàf: Gif vs You haue to pay: you Vous auez à payer, You hàf tou pê. You shall pay two Vous en paierez deux You chàl pê tou Go to, you shall haue Or sus vous les aurez Go tou, you chàl hàf you shall see good vous voirrez de bonne you chàl sij goud Haue you any good Auez vous de bon drap Hàf you any goud bràd What say you to this Que dites vous de Houat sê you tou dis You shall haue what Vous aurez ce qu''il You chàl hàf houat You shall haue it, vous l''aurez pour You chàl hàf it, for
id = 12474
author = Bierce, Ambrose
title = Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults
date =
keywords = Kind; Latin; good; like; man; mean; meaning; person; sense; thing; word
summary = Few words have more than one literal and serviceable meaning, however A good and useful word, but used without meaning by have the same meaning, but in their use by good writers there is a charity." The word relates, not to meanness, but to demeanor, conduct, form: "firstly," "secondly," and the rest are words without meaning. This word, meaning polite, or well mannered, was once in As a noun, this word means something that cannot be thought the better word (and in most cases it is) put it this way: "It what the misusers of the word mad mean to affirm. meant anything it would mean fight, but there is no such word. If a word has a good plural use each form in its We make a better use of the word if we say of one (for example) who This word rightly means to make solemn, not to perform,
id = 19906
author = Bigwood, Inez
title = Winning a Cause: World War Stories
date =
keywords = Allies; Army; Corps; Division; England; Europe; France; General; George; God; Kaiser; Lieutenant; New; November; October; Paris; President; Service; States; United; War; World; York; american; british; french; german; great; illustration
summary = compelling force of the American spirit as it entered the World War. The original oil painting has been purchased by The Metropolitan Museum large body of American citizens would believe that the German nation When most Americans came to realize that Germany was fighting a war to soldiers to die in the World War. The Germans began by shelling the barbed-wire barrier in front of the equally courageous men in the American army, to that faithful sea and The world knows today that the United States marines held that line; large enemy force, the General commanding the Sixth Army orders that In the last days of the war, American soldiers found upon a German great German fleet which all through the war, except at the battle of when Germany needed help in America, she called on the German-Americans service over the German lines, and these men, not having American scout
id = 14227
author = Bridges, Robert
title = On English Homophones Society for Pure English, Tract 02
date =
keywords = English; Footnote; Greek; Jones; Mr.; Shakespeare; Southern; adj; homophone; sidenote; sound; word
summary = [Footnote 1: Homophone is a Greek word meaning ''same-sounding'', and excluded from my list: they exhibit different meanings of one word, not the same sound of different words: they are of necessity present, at all doubtful, such words are practically homophones:--and again in language, the differentiation of the sound of words is of the essence dictionary as 100,000: Jones has 38,000 words, exclusive of proper [Footnote 5: The following words in List 1 involve _wr_ > _w_, write, HOMOPHONES DUE ONLY TO AN INFLECTED FORM OF A WORD. since confusion of words is not confined to homophones, the practical Examples of words specialized thus from homophones from words of the same sound having different significations, and the obsolete words: the homophones separated out from these will show word has lost much of its old use: and the verb TO FARE has Now how do these words appear in Jones'' dictionary?
id = 41243
author = Brooks, Stratton D. (Stratton Duluth)
title = Brooks''s Readers: First Year
date =
keywords = Bennie; Ned; illustration
summary = Run, little boy, and catch it. The little girl can not fly like the bird. Fly to the nest, little bird. I can not fly like you, little bird. My dogs like to run and play. I like to play with my pretty doll. I like to play with my pretty doll. Do you like milk, little rabbit? Come here, Bennie, my little boy. The nest is for the good little bird. It looks like a big bird. The birds sing in the trees by the brook. Good morning, little girl. Well, he looks a little like a horse. Our little baby boy is going away. flowers grow show snow find blue red white yellow lily See the pretty little birds, Why do you run all the time, little brook? Boys and girls like to play by the brook. You are too little to drive goats," said the boy.
id = 11615
author = Brown, Goold
title = The Grammar of English Grammars
date =
keywords = "--_O.; Adam; Alexander; Alger; Allen; America; Analogy; Anglo; Bacon; Bible; Blair; Book; Boston; Brown; Buchanan; Bullions; Butler; Campbell; Chapter; Charles; Christ; Churchill; Cicero; Comly; Compound; Crit; Crombie; Dict; Dictionary; Doctor; Dr.; Edition; Elocution; England; English; Essays; Etymology; Example; Exercises; Father; Fisk; Fowler; French; General; God; Gould; Gram; Grammar; Greek; Hart; Henry; Hermes; Hiley; Hist; III; Imperfect; Improved; Ingersoll; Institutes; Israel; JOHN; James; Jamieson; Johnson; KTH; Key; King; Kirkham; LESSON; Language; Latin; Lennie; Lindley; London; Lord; Lowth; Merchant; Milton; Moral; Moses; Mr.; Murray; NOTE; Nature; New; OBS; OBSERVATIONS; Old; Parsing; Passive; Paul; Peirce; Perfect; Plural; Poems; Pope; Poss; Practical; Praxis; Pref; Priestley; Principles; Rev.; Rhet; Rhetoric; Rome; Rule; Sanborn; Saxon; School; Science; Scott; Singular; Smith; Spelling; Syntax; TENSE; Thou; Tooke; Verb; Voice; Vol; Walker; Webster; Weld; Wells; William; Worcester; Works; York; adjective; article; case; come; conjunction; correction; error; false; form; friend; impropriety; interjection; let; letter; love; man; noun; number; participle; person; preposition; present; pronoun; roman; scripture; second; section; thing; word
summary = the verb, the _compound word_ thus formed expresses a continued state of adjective is a word added to a noun or pronoun, and generally expresses adjective is a word added to a noun or pronoun, and generally expresses adjective is a word added to a noun or pronoun, and generally expresses general rule for the verb, the author of a certain "English Grammar _on the "Nouns or pronouns, following the verb _to be_; or the words _than, but, cor._ "The verb, noun, or pronoun, is referred to the preceding terms taken names to objects."--_Kirkham cor._ "_Derivative_ words are _formed_ from _or_ verbs, of the singular number only."--_Murray cor._ "Expressing by one cor._ "Participles are words derived from verbs, and convey an idea of the sense."--_Murray cor._ "_The_ placing _of_ the preposition before the word, Murray cor._ "A Pronoun is a word used _in stead_ of a noun, to _prevent_
id = 12421
author = Buehler, Huber Gray
title = Practical Exercises in English
date =
keywords = A.S.; Dictionary; EXERCISE; England; English; Hill; Ibid; Insert; John; Mr.; New; President; Rhetoric; adjective; come; form; foundation; good; man; mean; person; plural; principle; sentence; word
summary = dropped out of common use, and "let" has acquired a different meaning; GOOD USE.--It appears, therefore, that words and phrases, in order to correctly is, How am I to know what words and expressions are in good use? NO ONE BOOK OR WRITER DECISIVE.--Nor is good use to be learned from 3. Make a list of the words, forms, and phrases not in present use which "An" ("a") is a broken-down form of the old English word _ane_, meaning auctioneer sold the goods in ten _lots_." The word does not mean "a great Persons who are in doubt as to which form of the pronoun to use often try _Distinguish in meaning between the following sentences:_-_Distinguish in meaning between the following sentences:_-_Illustrate by original sentences the correct use of each of these words:_ _Illustrate by original sentences the correct use of each of these words:_
id = 31766
author = Burgess, Walton
title = Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected
date =
keywords = BURGESS; John; New; York; book; good; lay; man; mean; pronounce; word; write
summary = habit of misusing many of the most common words of the English language, Salisbury Plain,--meaning _careful_, and pronounced as though divided The following words were posted, as a sign, in a reading-room--"No noun, as in this instance, pronounce it in three syllables; when placed _Superfluous R''s_: Many persons pronounce words which have no letter _Reading_:" pronounced the first italicized word to rhyme with _feeding_, pronounce the former word with the accent on _gust_; the latter, on _Au_. "What a long _lirry_ he has to say!" This word should be pronounced distinct sounding of the _i_; else the word becomes _ante_, which means The following sentence affords an example of three words of similar sentence, "_A wise and good man_ should be respected," the words _wise_ This work contains about fourteen thousand of the most useful words in the this manner, by the introduction of a new class of words, or the use of
id = 35094
author = Bysshe, Edward, active 1702-1712
title = The Art of English Poetry (1708)
date =
keywords = Cowl; English; Poems; Poetry; Rhyme; Stanzas; Syllables; Vowel; Wall; accent; verse; word
summary = divided into three parts: "Rules For making English Verse," a rhyming In a Poem whose Verses consist of 8, the double Rhymes require 9, as, When the Accent falls on the 2d Syllable of the Verse, and the last save The second Verse is Accented on the 3d Syllable, and the Pause is there which the Word is accented, those two Syllables ought in Verse to be If the Words accented on the last Syllable end in any of the Vowels Or some of the Verses may end in an entire word, and the Rhyme to it be But there are some Poems in Stanzas of four Verses, where the Rhymes follow one another, and the Verses differ in number of syllables only; Or as in the following Stanza, where the 4th and 5th Verses rhyme to In the following Example the like Rhyme is observ''d, but the Verses
id = 5742
author = Chandler, Katherine
title = The Bird-Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
date =
keywords = Clark; Indians; Lewis; Sacajawea
summary = This Indian woman took the white men across streams. The white men Sacajawea went with were soldiers. Sacajawea showed the captains how to make friends with the Indians. Sacajawea told the soldiers how the Indians hunted them. One day six of the soldiers saw a big bear lying on a little hill near One day Captain Clark took Sacajawea and her husband with him to look Sacajawea told Captain Clark all about the yamp plant, as her tribe knew Sacajawea said the white men had many things the Indians would like. If they found a good way over the mountains, the white men would send Sacajawea said the white men were kind to her and her baby. Sacajawea came to Captain Clark and said, "May I go, too? The Indians on the bank across the river saw what the soldiers wanted. Captain Clark sent ten men down the Missouri River the way they had
id = 10811
author = Christian Brothers
title = De La Salle Fifth Reader
date =
keywords = Bell; Cratchit; Father; Gluck; God; James; John; Lord; Mr.; Peter; St.; Thomas; Toil; Tom; Tree; child; come; day; good; illustration; let; like; little; tell; word
summary = Tell what this "little man" said to his playmate. following: The boy said, "--I leave the room?" "Mother, I--climb the "Well, James," said a kind-voiced mother, "you promised to tell Maggie waited for his change, a little boy six or eight years old, in poor but "Run along," said the good woman; "carry your bread home, child." "Ma''am," said the little boy, "what is it that sings?" When the little children were gone out to play, Tom''s wife said to him, "Tom," said the small man, with a knowing look, "don''t speak roughly. A little shepherd boy, twelve years old, one day gave up the care of the She said she could see as good any day by looking out of her "He does look _very_ wet," said little Gluck; "I''ll just let him in for "That''s a good boy," said the old gentleman again. "A little bit," said the old gentleman.
id = 45023
author = Crowquill, Alfred
title = The Pictorial Grammar
date =
keywords = illustration
summary = By Alfred Crowquill. plume was "Alfred Crowquill," was born and to the _Illustrated London News_. Among his works may be named, "Comic English Grammar," "Comic Arithmetic," "The [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075] [Illustration: 075]
id = 22222
author = Crowther, Mary Owens
title = How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence
date =
keywords = April; Avenue; Co.; Company; Evans; John; June; Madam; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Park; Sir; Street; York; letter
summary = number of very competent men make a business of writing letters for The heading of a letter contains the street address, city, state, and address of the person to whom a business letter is sent is placed at the In business letters the forms of salutation in common use are: "Dear "Dear Madam." If the writer of the letter is personally acquainted with The informal official letter is used between business men and concerns letter signed by the man in the company who comes into In the outside address or superscription of a letter the following forms A letter to a woman must always address her as either "Mrs." or "Miss," good form in letter writing; some of these have been touched on in other Your kind letter is received and the sad news of your ill good deal of interest to their letter writing if they may use some of
id = 42580
author = Curl, Mervin James
title = Expository Writing
date =
keywords = American; Boston; Charles; City; Co.; Company; England; English; Europe; George; Goldsmith; Henry; John; London; Mifflin; Mr.; New; Old; Shakespeare; States; Stevenson; Thomas; United; Washington; York; definition; fact; good; great; life; like; man; reader; subject; thing; time; word; work; writing
summary = reactions to life and things; or choose a new subject. fact of choice at once to human feelings and needs--and the subject as soon as he brings his subject into relation with human life and shows the controlling purpose is the means of making writing interesting, accomplish some definite end, which, in writing, is to make the reader As a matter of fact, in writing of such subjects a writer finds that likely to attain success with subject and with reader when you come to time writes novels to be called a statesman or a man of letters? definition of college spirit the author has followed the method of regard him as a person desirous of knowing, your subject as a thing V. Write themes on the following subjects, bearing in mind that the 6. Write a similar criticism on any of the following subjects: 2. Write an appreciative criticism of the American Business Man
id = 6409
author = Devlin, Joseph
title = How to Speak and Write Correctly
date =
keywords = Anglo; Greek; John; Mr.; New; Sir; York; chapter; english; good; language; love; man; past; person; sentence; sing; tense; verb; word
summary = writers and polite speakers use simple words. able to write and express his thoughts and ideas upon paper in the right A _pronoun_ is a word used in place of a noun; as, "John gave his pen to inflections of the verb express _number_, _person_, _time_ and _manner_. sense or meaning, in other words, to express a complete thought or idea. writings causes us to reiterate the literary command--"Never use a big word As in the case of words in sentences, the most important places in a In _Figurative Language_ we employ words in such a way that they differ use of the proper words and forms becomes a second nature to them. are acknowledged masters of language, and study how they use their words, and present, which means that the words are in current use by the best words, and these, after a time, come into such general use that they take
id = 15901
author = Elphinston, James
title = A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy
date =
keywords = French; dhat; dhe; inglish; shut; vowel; widh
summary = 2. ORTHOGGRAPHY ASCERTAINED IN DHE VOWELS, AND DHEIR SERVILES. 2. ORTHOGGRAPHY ASCERTAINED IN DHE VOWELS, AND DHEIR SERVILES. Evvery open ear must allow dhe aspiracion (_h_) to'' articculate iniscially dhe braud vocal licquid (_w_); nor longuer imadgine dhat _wh_, apparent, But _e_ cannot be _a_, widh dhe servile dhat distinguishes _e_: _tear_ claim dhe substitute vowel, widh due servile; _pair_, _pare_, _bair_ and Dhe same propriety, dhat dhus gards dhe Inglish vowel (_e_), prezervs, no attend a shut vowel; hwich, on dhe contrary, must show dhe consonant dhat Hwen a consonant concludes dhe syllabel, after an open vowel; a servile must gard dhe vowel from dhe consonant, hwich else wood shut it. shut vowel dhen must show dhe shutter, or be left apparently open. To'' keep Inglish, dhus like French and Lattin, or spelling dhe contrast ov dhat shut and sharpen, shortening dhe former vowel; hwich dhey hav
id = 9106
author = Elson, William H. (William Harris)
title = The Elson Readers, Book 5
date =
keywords = Aladdin; Ali; Baba; Biography; Emperor; England; Epimetheus; Glossary; Hiawatha; Hood; John; King; Knight; Lincoln; Little; Majesty; Midas; Morgiana; Mr.; Pandora; Robin; Sheriff; Sindbad; Study; Sultan; Turk; american; discussion; home; like; look; man; note; questions; tell
summary = the gutter, till he looked more like an old door-mat than dog; and I nation to have its people love their homes and the festival days like Ali Baba thought that these horsemen looked like evil men. "Go, Little John, and look in his wallet," said Robin, "and, Sir "Good day, my friend," he said to Robin; "I cannot pay you what I "If he come not this day," cried the rich man, rubbing his hands, "the a brave man and hardy," said Little John, "and a good fighter withal. "Take heart, man," said Robin Hood, "and think not we will poison you. Little John, "for in this forest are many wild men who own Robin Hood "Now, farewell," said Little John; "I have done you a good turn for an Now, I thought, was the time to help the poor man, and my heart told
id = 15659
author = Fassett, James H. (James Hiram)
title = The Beacon Second Reader
date =
keywords = Cinderella; David; Dick; John; Margery; Mr.; Tom; good; illustration; indian; king; little
summary = But the oldest little goat thought of what his mother had said. In jumped the ugly old wolf, and all the little kids ran to hide The queen of the fairies said, "The good woman shall have her wish. The king ran to help poor Tom, but the little mouse was dead, and Tom While she was crying, the door flew open and a little old man stepped Then the little man said, "What will you give me if I will spin it for All at once the door opened and in jumped the little old man. Hardly had the door closed behind the king, when the little old man came One day the little old man came hopping into the queen''s room and said, At each one the little man shook his head, and said, "No, that is not my When the little man came again, the queen had a long list of names to
id = 28900
author = Fernald, James Champlin
title = English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions
date =
keywords = ----; Antonyms; Christ; England; English; God; Latin; Lord; Saxon; States; United; act; action; apply; business; care; cause; compare; denote; design; differ; examples; general; good; great; imply; knowledge; language; law; life; love; man; meaning; mind; object; page; person; power; preposition; questions; reason; refer; right; self; sense; signify; speak; synonyms; term; thing; time; way; word; work
summary = that compares or contrasts synonymous words, explains their differences _Abandon_ is a word of wide signification, applying to persons or things another person or thing; we speak of a man''s _adherence_ to his purpose, word for _change_ in any sense short of the meaning of _exchange_, being other words compare the synonyms for CHANGE, _v._ In the religious sense special reference to thought; _expression_ regards the words simply as _Lawfulness_ is an ambiguous word, meaning in its narrower sense mere oftener applied to words, qualities, actions, etc., than to persons; _Name_ in the most general sense, signifying the word by which a person individuals in a class; but both words are in good use as applying to sense of the exact meaning or requirement of the words used; what is words apply to persons and which to actions? what are these words in such sense properly applied?
id = 48673
author = Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
title = Elementary Composition
date =
keywords = CHAPTER; Christmas; David; England; English; God; John; Latin; Lincoln; Mr.; New; Washington; day; description; exercise; form; good; great; letter; little; man; school; sentence; word
summary = Writing short paragraphs from topic sentences 35 All over the world, then, people are speaking words or writing instead of him a fat, merry-looking little old man in black, with of the first sentence is placed a little way to the right of the Errors in the Forms of Words.=--The following exercises will =Exercise 63.=--Write sentences containing the following:-I hope you had a good time, too, and I wish you would write me of school following a vacation; asking if you may be a few days =Exercise 82.=--Study the forms given above, and write the hill, you must not write, "The woods back of our house looked like In the same way, write on any of the following subjects:-=Exercise 126.=--Write a story suggested by any of the following =Exercise 127.=--Write an explanation of the following Which words in the following sentences should begin with
id = 10073
author = Greever, Garland
title = The Century Vocabulary Builder
date =
keywords = Ages; Appendix; Assignment; Burke; Defoe; Dictionary; EXERCISE; England; English; God; Latin; Lord; Mr.; Sentences; Seven; Shakespeare; Sir; Synonyms; cause; chapter; child; day; fact; family; follow; form; general; good; great; group; hand; idea; kind; know; let; life; like; list; long; look; man; mean; meaning; old; people; person; speech; study; tell; term; thing; thought; time; verbal; vocabulary; way; word; work
summary = 9. State in general terms the thought of the following sentences: Send every sentence, every word like a skilful disputes over water-rights gave the word its present meaning. It is contrary to nature for a word, as for a man, to live the life of a meaning of _ology_, you are likely to know the whole word. Fill the blanks in the sentences after each word-group with terms chosen sentences to illustrate the correct use of the two words. For synonyms are not words that have the same meaning. used synonyms of words, with antonyms after some of them, and with lists Write three synonyms for each of the following words. (The word is sure to have more synonyms than are called for.) You will or more sentences in which the word is used. words, of family groups; (4) the first or generic term, but not the other
id = 30294
author = Greever, Garland
title = The Century Handbook of Writing
date =
keywords = Mr.; Shall; Use; change; clause; come; exercise; faulty; follow; good; like; man; mean; note; noun; past; place; right; sentence; subject; time; verb; word; write; wrong
summary = Right: The fact that a man wears old clothes is no proof that necessary, insert a word, a phrase, or even a sentence, to carry the Do not use two or three short sentences to express ideas which will Do not attach to a main clause by means of _and_, a word, phrase, or By the use of pronouns, participles, and other dependent words, language refer to a noun or pronoun, correct the following sentences. preposition, and may be followed by a noun; _as_ is in good use Use the word which accurately expresses the thought. 1. Write the present participle of the following words: _use_, Note 1.--The following words have more than one correct form, the one Right: He said, "The time has come." have good ideas, and to use emphatic sentence structure in expressing Right: "When a word is followed by both a quotation mark and
id = 5402
author = Grose, Francis
title = 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
date =
keywords = BLACK; BOX; BULL; CANT; CAT; COCK; Cambridge; DOG; Devil; Giles; Ireland; JACK; KEN; King; LAY; Latin; London; Mr.; Newgate; QUEER; SEA; SHOP; St.; TERM; autem; beat; cheat; drop; eye; face; fellow; french; gentleman; good; great; head; horse; irish; like; long; man; money; old; person; place; rum; run; thief; water; woman; word
summary = bestride it like a French poney, or post-horse, called in A shabby, mean fellow; a term said to be A large man or woman; also a great lie. An old woman hearing a man call his dog Cuckold, reproved lamb fashion; an old woman, drest like a young girl. A red-faced man is said to have been served To join giblets; said of a man and woman who A little short person, man or woman. looking man or woman, finely dressed, is said to look like a man on his head, that his money, watch, &c. A diminutive person, man or woman. frequently said of a man who marries a fat woman. said of any old fellow who marries a young wife. A fat man or woman: from their likeness to a A squinting man or woman; said to cant''em; you have said enough, the man of the house
id = 30036
author = Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William)
title = Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses
date =
keywords = Hamilton; John; Massachusetts; New; mean; noun; word
summary = Metcalf, New York; American Book Co. The student is recommended to study some good grammar with great care. some of the many books on words, their combinations, and their uses. about a noun which indicate its relation to other words, its number, its of objects we use a modifying word later to be described called an verb indicates the action, the subject is the noun (name of a person or case of collective nouns, in the use of personal pronouns as subjects, This rule rests on the exact meaning of the forms and words used and its Such errors are to be avoided by careful study of the meaning of words Do not use slang as a means of expression. Canon 4.--Between two forms of expression in equally good use, prefer The following rules for the use and arrangement of words will be found 1. Use words in their proper sense.
id = 30847
author = Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William)
title = Compound Words Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #36
date =
keywords = Hamilton; New; compound
summary = We use these compound words and phrases so commonly that supplemented by careful study of the rules for the use of the hyphen, by hyphenated compound indicates the special meaning of the words used When each part of the compound is accented, use the hyphen; VI Any two words other than nouns should be treated as a compound, 7. Compounds of _store_ are generally hyphenated when the prefix Compounds of _skin_ with words of one syllable are printed solid, Hyphenate compounds of _god_ when this word forms the second Numerals compounded with nouns to form an adjective take the hyphen; The hyphen is used in compounding a noun in the possessive case with Use the hyphen in compounding two adjectives generally, especially In compounds of color the hyphen is not used except when a noun is What is the rule about compounds of a noun followed by _like_? compounds, and the use of the hyphen.
id = 14403
author = Hathaway, Benjamin Adams
title = 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading
date =
keywords = Alphabet; English; Language; Rule; Substitutes; accent; answer; book; letter; numerical; questions; reading; signify; sound; syllable; word
summary = Two Greek words, signifying "To write right." _What letters of themselves form words?_ _What letter ends no English word?_ A distinct expression of the letters or sounds of a word in their An expression of the letters of a written or printed word in their An expression of the elementary sounds of a word in their proper Use a before all words beginning with a consonant sound, and use an before words beginning with a vowel sound, Diction treats of the selection and right use of words. When we use only such words as belong to the idiom of our language. The first word of every book, tract, essay, letter, etc., should 3. _What kind of words have no accent?_ 7. _Give a word in which P has the sound of B._ Words ending with the sound of k, and in which c follows the vowel.
id = 15825
author = Hawkes, J. Marshall
title = New National Fourth Reader
date =
keywords = Africa; Alice; Duddlestone; Harry; Indians; John; Johnny; LESSON; Mary; Mrs.; Prince; Queen; Reed; come; day; direction; great; illustration; lesson.--let; little; thing; time; word
summary = In old times, before the white men came to this country, the Indians had The old chief looked at him some time in silence, and then said: "My "You are very kind to come to see me so often, Alice," said Mrs. Reed. In a very short time every thing was changed in the little cottage. Language Lesson--Let pupils use other words to express what is given Language Lesson.--Place _re_ before each of the following words, and Language Lesson.--Place _dis_ before each of the following words, Language Lesson.--Let pupils define the following words: _complete, Language Lesson--Let pupils use other words to express the meaning of Language Lesson--Let pupils use other words to express the meaning of Language Lesson--Let pupils use other words to express the meaning of Language Lesson--Let pupils use other words to express the meaning of Language Lesson--Let pupils use other words to express the meaning of
id = 3214
author = Honig, Winfried
title = Mr. Honey''s Insurance Dictionary (German-English)
date =
keywords = Entschädigung; Prämie; Risiko; Sache; Schaden; Verlust; Versicherung; damage; der; des; fire; insurance; loss; policy; premium; risk; value; von; wert
summary = Art des Schadens type of loss Entschädigung für Verlust oder Beschädigung compensation for loss or damage für einen Schaden haftbar liable for a loss Gegenstand der Versicherung object insured Geschäftsausfallversicherung loss of profit insurance im Falle des Verlusts in the event of loss im Falle des Verlusts, im Schadensfalle in case of loss Lebensversicherungspolice life insurance policy Minderung des Wertes, Wertminderung loss in value Seeversicherungspolice marine insurance policy Umfang der Versicherungen volume of insurances contracted versicherbarer Wert insurable value versicherbares Risiko insurable risk Versicherung der Seefrachtgüter cargo insurance Versicherung der Ware insurance of goods Versicherung gegen alle Risiken all-risk insurance Versicherung gegen alle üblichen Risiken insurance against all risks Versicherung gegen Beschädigung insurance against damage Versicherung ohne ärztliche Untersuchung insurance without medical examination Versicherung von Schiff und Ladung insurance of ship and cargo Versicherung zum Wiederbeschaffungswert replacement value insurance voll gedeckter Schaden loss fully covered by insurance
id = 3298
author = Honig, Winfried
title = Mr. Honey''s Banking Dictionary (German-English)
date =
keywords = Akkreditiv; Aktien; Angebot; Auftrag; Bank; Bedingungen; Darlehen; Dokumente; Geld; Geschäft; Gewinn; Haftung; Hypothek; Kapital; Konto; Kosten; Markt; Mittel; Nachfrage; Obligationen; Preis; Prämie; Rechnung; Risiko; Schaden; Scheck; Sicherheit; Verlust; Verpflichtung; Versicherung; Vertrag; Vollmacht; Wechsel; Weisungen; Wert; Währung; Zahlung; Zinsen; account; auf; bill; business; cash; cost; credit; der; des; die; document; eine; exchange; für; good; insurance; interest; loan; loss; mit; money; nicht; order; payment; price; rate; risk; term; value; von; ware
summary = Aufgewachsen und geschult in der praktischen Denkweise von A.S. Hornby, einem Fellow des University College London, legte ich auf ein Konto einzahlen pay into an account Banken, die mit einem Inkasso befasst sind banks concerned with a collection die Anlieferung der Ware the delivery of the goods die Art der Verfügbarstellung des Erlöses the method of disposal of the funds die Art der verlangten Versicherung the type of insurance required die Form der Akzeptierung eines Wechsels the form of accepting a B/L die Gefahr der Ware verbleibt bei the goods remain at the risk of die Versicherer der Ware the insurers of the goods Diskontsatz der Bank von England bank rate ein mangelhafter Zustand der Ware a defective condition of the goods eine Versicherungspolice beleihen lend money on an insurance policy Versicherung der Ware insurance of goods von der Versicherung ausgestellt sein must be issued by the insurance company
id = 33826
author = Horn, Ernest
title = Lippincott''s Horn-Ashbaugh Speller For Grades One to Eight
date =
keywords = Errors; Number; VII; grade; iii; lesson; pupil; standard; teacher; viii; word
summary = list of words for the pupil to study; second, by placing before the pupils will study all words they are likely to use in life outside the each pupil is tested three times on every word in the lesson. frequently missed by grammar grade pupils are given additional review. pupil will spell a word correctly on one test and misspell it on a first four lessons in each grade are made up of words taught in the =How to Learn the Words.=--The first step in the study of each lesson =How to Learn to Spell a Word.=--A great many men have spent much time missing a word, write it in a special list and review it frequently. The words in the lessons for first grade children are few in number and the first six directions given under How to Learn to Spell a Word, page
id = 12088
author = Hubbard, Marietta
title = Composition-Rhetoric
date =
keywords = Adverb; Dennis; England; John; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; St.; States; United; Use; York; adjective; american; argument; description; exercise; follow; form; general; good; idea; know; man; notice; order; paragraph; point; section; sentence; subject; term; theme; time; word; write
summary = Theme VII.--_Write a short story suggested by one of the following +Theme X.+--_Write a short story suggested by one of the subjects below. +Theme XI.+--_Write a short story suggested by one of the following Image Making.+--Read the following selection from Hawthorne and form Many words do not cause us to form images; for example, _goodness, +Theme XII.+--_Form a clear mental image of some incident, person, or Word Relations.+--In order to get the thought of a sentence, we must own writing that kind of paragraph which best expresses our thought. Details Related in Time-Order.+--The experiences of daily life follow establishing the correct time-order, the writer should generally state the use of the forms which show relations in thought between sentences, +Theme XXXVII.+--_Write a general description of one of the following:_-following a given time-order, so may we make a paragraph or a whole theme +Theme LV.+--_Write a descriptive paragraph, using one of the following
id = 15747
author = Hülshof, John Ludwig
title = Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader
date =
keywords = America; Congress; Constitution; God; House; LESSON; Lincoln; New; President; Representatives; Senate; States; United; Vice; Virginia; man; shall; time
summary = The entire time spent in reading the lesson and questioning the class of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of 4. "The Vice-President of the United States shall be President of the the President of the United States is tried, the Chief-Justice shall holding any office under the United States, shall be a member of either President of the United States; if he approve, he shall sign it, but if United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall 7. "The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a shall, at stated times, receive for their services a compensation, belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall 2. "This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be 1. "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be
id = 7453
author = Jennings, James
title = The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire
date =
keywords = Anglo; Chaucer; Cox; England; Fanny; Glossary; Jan; Jerry; Mary; Miss; Mr.; Parret; Saxon; Somersetshire; Tha; West; adj; bit; come; dialect; footnote; good; like; war; word
summary = be the meaning of these words in Chaucer, and at the present time As zumtimes she war droo er care vor us âll, Good bwye ta thee Cot; vor the time mâ be longful Tha like war never jitch! Bit on tha moor not vur a went-Thaw Jerry war, vor âll tha wordle, Thâ gallop''d all; ''twar niver-tha-near: Vor years it war tha pride War laden âll tha trees; Tha Rooks war âll a gwon; An like a skin war stratched across tha corners; Bit vor all that, thâ left en in tha lurch; I bag your pardon. I mean, of âll tha expense thâ ood''n pâ a varden. War ther tha âltar-piece ta titch? At tha little zâtenfare''s word, Tha best place vor ta pitch. Vor, while I''ve wander''d in tha West-(Thâ war at work vor''n very near sound given to the same word at the present time in Somersetshire.
id = 41288
author = Jeschke, Harry Jewett
title = Beginners'' Book in Language. A Book for the Third Grade
date =
keywords = Ceres; Christmas; Exercise.=; Jack; Peter; Proserpina; Tom; illustration; indian; note; pupil
summary = Play that you are Tom. Tell the class your dream. =Oral Exercise.= Did Tom tell the class the same dream he told his of the stories told by you and the other pupils.[16] The class will read =Group Exercise.= As each pupil tells the fable, the class will listen In this way each of the twelve pupils may tell the class what kind of =Game.= Let the girls of the class, working together in a group, write =Group Exercise.= The class will tell you and the other pupils how the the class will say whether this picture looks like the pupil speaking. Every pupil writes a few sentences that tell how he looks. 2. The class will tell what it likes in each pupil''s talking and =Group Exercise.= The class will tell what it likes in each playing of =Game.= The teacher asks a pupil to stand before the class.
id = 5430
author = Johnson, Samuel
title = Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
date =
keywords = English; Greek; Latin; Teutonick; language; sense; word
summary = of use to ascertain or illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated As language was at its beginning merely oral, all words of necessary we have few Latin words, among the terms of domestick use, which upon greater things, have thought little on sounds and derivations; observe whether the Latin word be pure or barbarous, or the French But to COLLECT the WORDS of our language was a task of my predecessors, by inserting great numbers of compounded words, that no words can express the dissimilitude, though the mind easily considered words beyond their popular use, be thought only the jargon The original sense of words is often driven out of use by their each word, and ranged according to the time of their authours. mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed. such words as common use requires, would perhaps long continue to
id = 34251
author = Joyce, P. W. (Patrick Weston)
title = English As We Speak It in Ireland
date =
keywords = Armagh; Carlow; Catholics; Cork; Crofton; Croker; Derry; Donegal; Dublin; England; English; Father; Folk; General; Gerald; God; Griffin; Ireland; Jack; James; John; Joyce; Kildare; Knocknagow; Limerick; Monaghan; Moran; Morris; Mr.; Munster; Music; North; Old; Patrick; Song; South; Tom; Ulster; Wexford; anglo; come; irish; like; man; person; small; word
summary = I was alone.'' (Old Irish Song.) In north-west Ulster they sometimes use the We have in our Irish-English a curious use of the personal pronouns which Irish-English salute, ''What way are you?'' meaning ''How are you?'' Our Irish-English expression ''to come round a person'' means to induce or old Anglo-Irish song about persons who commit great crimes and die adoption and retention of those old English words; for we have in Irish a general Irish prayer ''God rest his soul.'' Mangan uses the word in this Such words as _old_, _cold_, _hold_ are pronounced by the Irish people _Again_ is sounded by the Irish people _agin_, which is an old English A ''cross'' was a small old Irish coin so called from a figure of St. Patrick From the very old Irish word, _fec_, same sound It is the very old Irish word _meithel_, same sound and meaning.
id = 7010
author = Kellogg, Brainerd
title = Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room
date =
keywords = /_Past; BUILDING; CORRECT; LESSON; Notes; Oral; Pres; REVIEW; adjective; class; clause; error; exercise; follow; hint; present; sentence; subject; tense; word
summary = +CAPITAL LETTER-RULE.--The first word of every sentence must begin with a From the following nouns and verbs, build as many sentences as possible, We can modify the subject by joining some word which will tell what _kind_ Build sentences by prefixing _modified subjects_ to the following +DEFINITION.--An _Adjective_ is a word used to modify a noun or a pronoun+. Write five sentences with modified subjects, each of which shall contain +DEFINITION.--_An Adverb_ is a word used to modify a verb, an adjective, or Analyze the following sentences, and parse the nouns, pronouns, adjectives, Re-write the following sentences, changing the italicized words into [Footnote: A phrase in its natural order follows the word it modifies.] and Using the following predicates, build sentences having subjects, Using the following nouns as subjects, build sentences each having a simple parts of a sentence; in the second, to connect word modifiers; in the
id = 18362
author = Kleiser, Grenville
title = Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English
date =
keywords = air; attention; day; expression; eye; face; fact; good; great; hope; life; like; little; look; man; mind; night; opinion; phrase; point; power; question; sea; section; sense; sky; sound; star; thank; thing; thought; time; truth; view; word
summary = Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a The most powerful and the most perfect expression of thought and feeling which to express a given thought; De Quincey, who exercised a weird-like A sudden sense of fear ran through her nerves like the chill of an icy wind All my life broke up, like some great river''s ice at touch of spring Let his frolic fancy play, like a happy child Like a great express train, roaring, flashing, dashing head-long Like fixed eyes, whence the dear light of sense and thought has fled Like sweet thoughts in a dream Looked back with faithful eyes like a great mastiff to his master''s face I should like your opinion of it I would like to say one word just here And the like And the like And the like And the like And the like
id = 34595
author = Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
title = The English Language
date =
keywords = A.D.; Acc; Angles; Anglo; Britain; CHAPTER; Cæsar; Danish; Dat; Deutsche; Dutch; East; Elbe; England; English; French; Frisian; Gaelic; Gen.; German; Germanic; God; Gothic; Grammar; Grammatik; Greek; Grimm; Guest; Góda; High; Icelandic; Irish; John; Jutes; Kent; Latin; Lowland; Middle; Modern; Moeso; Mr.; New; Nom; Norman; Norse; North; Old; Philological; Plur; Plural; Sanskrit; Saxon; Scotch; Scotland; Sing; Singular; Slavonic; Welsh; West; case; celtic; certain; change; dialect; european; expression; find; follow; form; hebrew; iii; indo; language; letter; like; number; original; person; present; scandinavian; second; sound; syllable; syntax; tense; true; verb; vowel; word
summary = forms:--Old High-German, _Diutisc_; Anglo-Saxon, _Þeódisc_; Latin, _Languages which differ in an older form may so far change according to a Beyond the words derived from these five languages, none form their plurals account for words so different in present form, yet so identical in origin, or, changing the expression, _every derived word must have a possible form In English, the form which the Latin word _numerus_ takes is _num_b_er_; in the changes of form that words undergo in one and the same language is as follows.--_The plural is formed from the singular, by adding to words In the language of the Anglo-Saxons the genitive cases of the words _smith_ Moeso-Gothic forms, like _sutiza_, &c., in other words, the old comparative Now, all words of this sort in Anglo-Saxon formed their second other words, the Anglo-Saxon and the Old English have a plural _personal_ In English and Anglo-Saxon the word is found in the {347} present
id = 44802
author = Leigh, Percival
title = The Comic English Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction To The English Tongue
date =
keywords = CHAPTER; Comic; English; Grammar; Mr.; RULE; Sir; Verbs; case; illustration; like; love; number; person; section; syllable; thing; word
summary = Syllable {015}is a nice word, it sounds so much like syllabub! Certain rules for the division of words into syllables are laid down A word of one syllable is called a Monosyllable: as, you, are, a, great, Substantive or Noun, the Adjective, the Pronoun, the Verb, the Adverb, Comically speaking, there are a great many sorts of words which we have An English Adjective, whatever may be its gender, number, or case, like comparison, we use certain adverbs and words of like import, whereby To verbs belong Number, Person, Mood, and Tense. verb or attribute; and the word or phrase, denoting the object, follows A verb must agree with its nominative case in number and person: as "I A nominative case, standing without a personal tense of a verb, and These verbs, however, are capable of governing words of a meaning particular letter or syllable in a word, in such a manner as to render
id = 4597
author = Marden, Orison Swett
title = Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life
date =
keywords = Dr.; England; God; Lincoln; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Stanley; Tell; Washington; York; boy; day; find; great; life; little; man; time; work; year
summary = No boy or girl can learn too early in life the value of time and the In time a fair young wife and children came, bringing new brightness his work, the old man eagerly explained its details to the youth, and "Ah!" said Zaccheus Greeley, Horace''s father, when the boy one day, in upon the great work of his life--the founding and editing of the New fear, he wrote to the great man, telling what he wished, and asking his the long years of patient work a great purpose had been shaping his great world, he expected to get work that would enable him to live, The young man immediately began the work of preparation for his great He was ten years old at this time, and had been to school but little. poor hard-working backwoods boy, what should the life of Lincoln be to
id = 52320
author = Matsell, George W. (George Washington)
title = Vocabulum; or The Rogue''s Lexicon Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources
date =
keywords = BROTHER; Bell; Bill; COVE; Jack; LAY; New; York; card; cheat; fellow; good; half; hand; house; man; money; old; page; person; place; play; pocket; run; thief; woman
summary = A panel thief; a fellow who robs a man''s pocket after he has enticed the man into a thieving-house, and robbed him of his watch and pocket-book filled with bad money, near their heels, and then pretend Small thieves who steal any thing they can lay hands on. Fellows who obtain money by pretending to persons who have flat," how finely the knowing old fellow flattered the fool. A fellow that breaks windows or showcases, to steal the goods Fellows that cheat simple people out of their money by "The cove is bene, shall we lach him?" the man is good, "The cove done the panny," the fellow robbed the house; Putting one''s hand into another man''s pocket; stealing. "The cove sings beef," the fellow calls thief. cove," give me your hand, my good fellow. hock-game, if a man hits a card, he is obliged to let his money lie
id = 15456
author = McGuffey, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton)
title = McGuffey''s Eclectic Spelling Book
date =
keywords = Latin; Lesson; Spelling; Syllable; Vowels; ble; care; com; con; consonant; dictation; dis; exercise; illustration; letter; like; long; man; mark; ness; ous; pre; pro; short; sound; word
summary = book these sounds are indicated by diacritical marks, as in the following dra''per man''na art''ist pat''ter 3. Sound of A before r in such words as air, care, marked a. Sound of U before r in such words as urge, marked u. cu''beb cow''ard sound''ings joy''ous pre vent''ive sur ren''der en cum''ber rig''or ous wil''der ness cor''o net em''pha sis sen''a tor mys''ter y but''ler com''mon dis''mal blem''ish com''ment oc''tave den''tist leg''ate lus''ter som''ber mau''ger ma neu''ver cur''few com par''i son am''bi ent fer''tile com pat''i ble cal''a mine plov''er vo''ca ble dis com''fit o''zone an''ces tor in''ter est ing in dis''so lu ble com mem''o ra tive cais''son ar''ti san pres''by ter y pres''by ter com''bat ive min''a ret scream com''et peb''ble in ter cede'' give cra''ter dis perse'' jock''ey ing keyed neu''ter ver''sion of''fi cer ob''li ga to ri ly in dis''so lu ble''ness id i o syn''cra sy in dis''pu ta ble''ness
id = 14640
author = McGuffey, William Holmes
title = McGuffey''s First Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition
date =
keywords = Frank; LESSON; girl; illustration
summary = [Illustration: Girl chasing dog with hat in his mouth.] [Illustration: Man and girl standing by a pond.] [Illustration: Two girls standing in meadow play with a ball.] [Illustration: Boy and girl with goat-cart in woods; tent in background.] Robert has a big tent and a flag, and Bess has a little bed for her doll. [Illustration: Boy talking to girl sitting on steps with a doll.] Kate has left her doll in its little bed, and has gone to play with Mary Mary and Lucy have come up from the pond near by, with brave old Ponto, to [Illustration: Boy and girl sitting in wicker clothes basket. "A big basket, with two good little children in it." [Illustration: Girl and boy playing with dog. [Illustration: Boy and girl looking over a fence in woods.] [Illustration: Boy and girl examining bird''s nest.] [Illustration: Girl holding doll and boy with cane standing in woods.]
id = 14642
author = McGuffey, William Holmes
title = McGuffey''s Eclectic Primer, Revised Edition
date =
keywords = LESSON; illustration
summary = Ann can fan Nat. LESSON IV. [Illustration: Boy running and old man, with gout, sitting.] A rat ran at Nat. Can Ann fan the lad? [Illustration: Boy and dog watching cat on post.] [Illustration: Boy sitting on fence, watching frog sitting on log.] [Illustration: Boy and dog chasing horse.] [Illustration: Cat watching hen, watching eggs in nest.] [Illustration: Girl watching ducks on pond.] [Illustration: Girl lead old, blind man.] [Illustration: Two girls sitting by tree, playing with dolls.] [Illustration: Cat watching bird and eggs in nest on tree top.] [Illustration: Bird perched on girl''s hand.] [Illustration: Boys playing in snow by a canal. [Illustration: Two boys, one sawing, the other chopping logs.] [Illustration: Girl riding in small cart pulled by two goats.] [Illustration: Boys running in front of burning house.] The girls and boys all love Miss May; she is so kind to them. [Illustration: Boy fishing from log.] [Illustration: Small girl watching a tree.
id = 14668
author = McGuffey, William Holmes
title = McGuffey''s Second Eclectic Reader
date =
keywords = Bessie; LESSON; Mary; Script; Willie; boy; good; illustration; little; mother
summary = dear father and mother a sweet good night. little girl so nicely that soon it took the place of her own. 7. One day, a poor little girl with a very ragged dress was going by and 8. She at once ran out to the gate, and asked the poor little girl to come 1. One winter night, Mrs. Lord and her two little girls sat by a bright "Come, little leaves," said the wind one day. 5. "I don''t like it," said little Jessie, with a tear in her eye. [Illustration: Old man holding two little girls.] [Illustration: Mother talking to small boy. 8. "Oh yes, it will, my son," said his mother, "The sand moves by little Now, Frank''s mother wanted him to learn a little hymn; but he said His mother said, "Study all the time. you had not come at once, I could not have said good-by to my little
id = 14766
author = McGuffey, William Holmes
title = McGuffey''s Third Eclectic Reader
date =
keywords = ECLECTIC; George; God; James; LESSON; SERIES; little; reader
summary = "Come." The little boy got up from the floor, and came "There is a better way than this, my boy," said papa. 8. "No, I am trying to write," said little Joe, "but I know said to the boy, "How much do you ask for your birds?" 7. "I am well pleased," said his mother, "that my little boy 1. One day, as two little boys were walking along the 9. The other day, I saw a little girl stop and pick up a piece 1. "Where are we to go?" said the little waves to the great, Mother said there was work for me." And he came down "I love you, mother," said little John; 3. "I love you, mother," said little Fan; 3. "Come and look at my horse," said he, one day. 1. "Come in, little stranger," I said, And heard every word little Emily said:
id = 14880
author = McGuffey, William Holmes
title = McGuffey''s Fourth Eclectic Reader
date =
keywords = Andrew; Annie; Ben; Correct; England; George; God; Harry; Hugh; Jenny; John; Mr.; Susie; Thomas; Toil; Tom; Uncle; child; day; good; great; like; little; look; man; time; way
summary = 4. "Good evening," returned the old man, raising himself up from his work, 7. At this, the dwarfs held up their little old hands, and looked quite said with a sigh, "what a long day this is going to be," and she looked 4. "Mamma," said George West, as he came from school, "I can''t help thinking about that poor little girl I told you of the other day. ''Honor thy father and thy mother;'' and thy children shall one day pay thee 1. "Please, mother, do sit down and let me try my hand," said Fred Liscom, 3. "Little friends," she said, "I wish I knew the further will she go out of her course." "I see!" said the little man, I see!" said the little man, "I see!" I see!" said the little man, "I see!" "God bless you, my child," said the judge, "you have a good mother.
id = 15040
author = McGuffey, William Holmes
title = McGuffey''s Fifth Eclectic Reader
date =
keywords = America; Boston; Charles; College; England; English; Europe; God; Gray; Hugh; John; King; London; Lord; Mr.; Mrs.; New; REMARK; Squeers; William; York; bear; boy; day; examples; fall; good; great; hand; life; like; little; long; look; man; old; rise; time; work; year
summary = the poor boy soon rose to great distinction, and had more orders than he "What a wonderful power that hand possesses!" said I, speaking to my 2. The old man laid his hand on her head, mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I1 will dwell in the 6. I have seen a good old father, his locks as white as snow, his step rosy cheek, "I haven''t seen a little girl for so long, it does my old eyes earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the day long: it''s very hard if I can''t speak a word at night; besides, it is your spirits, set to work like a man, and you will raise your head among Days, months, years, and ages shall circle away, Days, months, years, and ages shall circle away,
id = 16751
author = McGuffey, William Holmes
title = McGuffey''s Sixth Eclectic Reader
date =
keywords = America; Boston; Brutus; Caesar; Carolina; Charles; College; Duke; England; God; Heaven; Henry; John; London; Lord; Massachusetts; Mr.; New; Pope; Revolution; Rome; Sabbath; Shakespeare; Sir; South; Spain; United; University; William; York; come; day; death; english; examples; great; life; like; long; look; man; old; shall; thy; time; work; year
summary = 2. For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven'': I will 1. Days'', months'', years'', and ages'', shall circle away, the work of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet. 4. On New Year''s night, an old man stood at his window, and looked, with a son-in-law to the commissioners, in case of the old man''s death, he should I hope your grace will be as good as your word, and let my son-in-law Shall man, so soon forgetful of the Hand "Young man," said Omar, "it is of little use to form plans of life. many years after the poor man passed away. was known to talk a great deal, about that time, of the old and new good-looking man, who never thought, and talked little, which, added to they thought the "old man" was mad, but no one said a word.
id = 27977
author = Morris, Edward Ellis
title = Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia
date =
keywords = Argus; August; Australasian; Australia; Bay; Benth; Birds; Black; Boldrewood; Botany; Buller; Bush; Colonial; Colonists; Cook; Cunn; December; Dictionary; Diemen; Dr.; England; English; Expedition; Gould; Grant; Gray; Grk; Gum; Hobart; Hook; Howitt; Institute; Island; Jackson; January; Journal; June; Kangaroo; Land; Lath; Leichhardt; Life; Linn; Maiden; Maori; Melbourne; Meredith; Mitchell; Mr.; N.O.; N.Z.; Native; New; North; O.E.D.; Overland; Phillip; Plants; Port; Praed; Queensland; Red; River; Shaw; Smith; Society; South; Southern; Sydney; Tasmania; Tenison; Useful; Van; Victoria; Wakefield; Wales; Western; White; Woods; Zealand; adventure; fish; history; nTree-Kangaroos pigeon; in Australia and New Zealand, to the little birds of radiata) is called in New South Wales ''White Gum'' or "Natives of the South Sea Islands, who in Australia are called settlers to the New Zealand tree called by Maoris Tarata called the Bird of Paradise of New South Wales; then (Maori names); and for the New South Wales fish called called in New Zealand the Cabbage-tree (q.v.), and the
id = 11694
author = Murray, James Augustus Henry, Sir
title = The evolution of English lexicography
date =
keywords = Dictionary; Dr.; English; Johnson; Latin; New; Oxford; word; work
summary = every Latin word given is explained by an English one; and we see longer to explain difficult Latin words, but to give the English Vocabulorum_ or first printed Latin-English Dictionary, which issued Old English times would have called the _Word-hord_, the _World of may still be discovered in the Latin-English dictionaries of to-day. dictionary, for many of the words have an English explanation, as well English words into Latin. Italian-English Dictionary, the _World of Words_, which he into English use thousands of learned words, from Latin, Greek, great work was his _Universal Etymological English Dictionary_, years of work, published the first edition of a dictionary in which been in English use for some 250 years when Johnson''s Dictionary three letters of the alphabet of the Oxford New English Dictionary. The quotations in the New English Dictionary, on of Glossaries and Dictionaries of ''hard'' English words; the extension
id = 13910
author = Nugent, Homer Heath
title = A Book of Exposition
date =
keywords = Bruchus; Fig; God; end; energy; exposition; form; great; illustration; lever; life; machine; matrix; paper; pea; time
summary = [Illustration: Fig. 1.--Showing a chisel 10 inches long used as a lever the long end of a lever, we increase our power. power by working on a very short lever, they gain, in speed; we set them In the second order of lever, we have seen that the muscle worked on one placed at the end of the lever, and the muscle is attached somewhere weight placed in the hand moves with twenty-four times the speed In a complete modern mill making writing and other high-grade papers, grades, the process ends with the calenders, after which the paper is time cannot be entities, but are conceptions of the human mind in its in time, an event such as a human life, it extends from a point in of an event in time, as our life, are the same as the beginning and end beginning and end point, or not; while the event in time, our life,
id = 19052
author = O''Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)
title = Stories That Words Tell Us
date =
keywords = Africa; Ages; America; Bible; England; English; Europe; French; Latin; London; Middle; Romans; South; St.; christian; great; greek; mean; meaning; old; people; word
summary = western parts of England, comes from an Old English word, _wealh_, _Aristocracy_ comes from an old Greek word meaning the rule A great many of the Hebrew names especially come from words meaning It seems most likely that it came from an old word meaning by the Britons, and all these names come from a British word meaning But one very common way in which people learn to use new words is means "Spanish," having come into English from the Old French word words; but the new meanings they have now tell us what other peoples the word _frank_ came into use, meaning "free." A "frank" person is coming to us through the French from two old Greek words meaning Many English words to-day have quite different meanings from those in the old days, generally thick syrups, the word came in time to mean
id = 26513
author = Optic, Oliver
title = A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes
date =
keywords = ADAMS; BOSTON; BOWDITCH; District; SCHOOL; WILLIAM; advanced; book; class; knowledge; letter; pronunciation; spelling; syllabication; word
summary = MASTER OF BOWDITCH SCHOOL, BOSTON. in the Clerk''s Office of the District Court This work, as its title indicates, is intended for the use of Advanced Classes,--for scholars who are, to some extent, familiar with the principles of pronunciation and syllabication. supersede the ordinary Spelling-Book, but rather to follow it, as a practical application of the pupil''s knowledge, not only in spelling, It is believed that, for Advanced Classes, the plan adopted in this book, of presenting the words without indicating the pronunciation or syllabication, will be found to possess some decided advantages; for the knowledge, while the dictionary will always be available to supply The words have been arranged in lessons of thirty each, and numbered for convenience of reference. silent letters shall not be indicated by the preceding word. It is suggested that, in written lessons, the words be arranged in exercise in practical syllabication. advancement indicative indicative _eau de cologne_
id = 6441
author = Parker, Francis W. (Francis Wayland)
title = Uncle Robert''s Geography (Uncle Robert''s Visit, V.3)
date =
keywords = Donald; Frank; Leonard; Mr.; Mrs.; Robert; Susie; Uncle; illustration
summary = Uncle Robert smiled at the eager little face, and, turning to Mr. Leonard, said: "This is phlox," said Susie, leading Uncle Robert by the hand; "and "That is what the Germans think, Susie," said Uncle Robert, laughing. "The water comes right out of the ground," said Susie; "and it is as "But, Uncle Robert," said Donald, "what if wagon tires, apples, and air "You ought to see our little chickens, Uncle Robert," said Susie. "When you go to set the hen, Donald," said Uncle Robert, "I will go with "How warm the sun is getting!" said Uncle Robert as they turned away "My shadow points north," said Frank as Uncle Robert passed him. "Susie and I are coming out to help this afternoon," said Uncle Robert, "Come out some day and see Susie''s flowers, Jennie," said Uncle Robert "Come again," said Uncle Robert and the children together.
id = 16936
author = Parker, Richard Green
title = Parker''s Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C.
date =
keywords = Anna; Betty; Daughter; Frank; George; God; Guido; LESSON; Mother; fire; illustration; little; time; word
summary = your teacher, to read all the hard words, not only in this book, but little birds, as soon as their mother returns, begin to open their "Now," said the father, "I wish you, my dear sons, to learn a lesson 5. But the teacher says to the little boy, Come, my dear, read over the Now, my little friend, if you wish your time at school to pass girl, mentioned in the last lesson, learned the meaning of English words 5. When George''s father or mother called George, and said, "Come here, _Daughter._ Mother dear, you told me, the other day, that nobody knows _Daughter._ You told me, mother, that some things require a very little 1. "Mother," said little Frank, "I wish you would tell me what it means to do many wicked things;--pray tell me, mother, if such a little boy as
id = 6473
author = Pattee, George K. (George Kynett)
title = Practical Argumentation
date =
keywords = Constitution; England; Mr.; New; President; Resolved; States; United; Vol; York; american; argument; evidence; footnote; introduction; man; proposition
summary = Argumentation and Debate have been introduced into American colleges interests of the United States," an argument might well follow. Laycock and Scales'' Argumentation and Debate, page 14.] In college appear for the first time before an audience in this now great State,-proposition is, "Naturalization laws in the United States should be United States Government, shall be transferred to the city of Tacoma. argumentation consists in applying tests to the evidence at hand for A. Etc. Notice that this form of refutation states clearly the argument to be A. Immigration to the United States means the migrating of people State the propositions upheld in the following arguments, and put the general rule governing this matter is: _Refute only those arguments United States, and then urged this as a reason why no educational test "Can the people of a United States territory in any lawful way,
id = 17470
author = Quiller-Couch, Arthur
title = On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914
date =
keywords = Burke; Cambridge; Chaucer; England; English; Gentlemen; Greek; Homer; Jargon; John; Latin; Literature; Lord; Oxford; Poetry; Professor; Rome; Saxon; Shakespeare; Sir; Thomas; University; William; art; great; history; man; thing; verse; word
summary = repetitions, the scruples of an old man who, knowing that his time in English language had not, like the Greek, ''some definite words to of noble natures, and right reading makes a full man in a sense even spirited men endow Chairs in our Universities, sure that Literature is a But that the study of English Literature can be promoted in young minds By all means let us study the great writers of the past hardier) a hall-mark of all Cambridge style so far as our English School University ought to practise verse-writing; and will try to bring this drawing some distinctions to-day between verse and prose I shall use only moment men introduced music they made verse a thing essentially separate write good English, to study the Authorised Version of the Scriptures; to Literature and practise writing here in Cambridge, shall not pass out
id = 26056
author = Rainolde, Richard
title = A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde
date =
keywords = Alexander; Athenians; Cesar; Fol; God; Grece; Grecians; Helena; Lawe; Monarchie; Nero; Oracion; Prince; Rhetorike; Rome; Troie; Tullie; Wolues; Zopyrus; common; man; sidenote; state; thei
summary = the king of the Macedonians your Oratours, by whose learnyng, knowlege and wisedome, the whole bodie of your dominions is saued, for thei as Bandogges, doe repell all mischeuous enterprises and chaunses, no doubte, but that rauenyng Wolfe Philip, will eate and consume your people, by and prouident, and also fore séeth in Sommer, the sharpe season of Winter: thei keepe order, and haue a kyng and a common wealthe as it were, as nature hath taught them. for his singularitie, his commendacion giueth, ample argument, in this singulare sentence, whiche preferreth a Monarchie aboue all states of common wealthes or kyngdome. publike wealth bée sought for a tyme, moche lesse thei continue in any good state: for in the ende, their rule and gouernement, will be without rule, order, reason, modestie, and their
id = 7188
author = Reed, Alonzo
title = Higher Lessons in English: A work on English grammar and composition
date =
keywords = CONTINUED; England; English; God; Introductory; Lesson; Mr.; New; Perfect; REVIEW; Saxon; Thou; Washington; York; adjective; adverb; caution; clause; complement; composition; construction; direction+.--_study; direction+.--_write; explanation+.--the; footnote; form; letter; man; noun; past; phrase; present; sentence; subject; tense; verb; word
summary = A sentence is a group of words expressing a thought; it is a body of which sentence expressing this thought, the word _spiders_ names that of which we +DEFINITION.--A _Sentence_ is the expression of a thought in words+. Words that modify nouns and pronouns are called +Adjectives+ (Lat. _ad_, +DEFINITION.--An _Adjective_ is a word used to modify a noun or a pronoun+. +Direction.+--_Form sentences by prefixing modified subjects to these +DEFINITION.--An _Adverb_ is a word used to modify a verb, an adjective, or +Direction+.--_Form a sentence out of each of these groups of words_:-+Direction.+--_Write eight sentences in which these verbs shall be followed +Direction.+--_Write short sentences in which these words and phrases, used +Direction.+--_Write short sentences in which these words shall modify same +Direction+.--_Write six exclamatory sentences with the word how modifying +Explanation+.--The adjective clause modifies the omitted word _thing_, or +An _Adjective_ is a word used to modify a noun or a pronoun+.[Footnote:
id = 10681
author = Roget, Peter Mark
title = Roget''s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
date =
keywords = Adj; Adv; Anat; Biol; Brit; Byron; Caesar; Chem; Church; Cicero; Coll; English; GENERAL; God; Gray; Hamlet; Heaven; Henry; Holy; III; Int; Jap; King; Lat; Law; Longfellow; Lord; Macbeth; Med; Milton; Obs; Ovid; Paradise; Party; Phr; Pope; Richard; Scot; Seneca; Slang; Tennyson; U.S.; Vergil; Vulg; Young; absence; account; action; affection; air; arm; attention; away; bad; bear; beat; blood; blow; book; break; cast; cause; change; color; come; course; cut; day; dead; death; deep; double; draw; est; evidence; eye; face; fall; false; fire; fly; foot; force; free; good; ground; hand; hard; head; heart; high; hold; home; hope; horace; house; ill; know; leave; lie; life; light; like; line; long; look; lose; love; man; mark; matter; mean; measure; memory; mind; money; motion; non; number; oneself; open; order; pass; past; pay; person; place; play; pleasure; point; power; question; render; run; science; section; sense; set; short; sound; speak; spirit; stand; state; stick; stone; strike; terence; thing; thought; throw; time; turn; view; want; water; way; wind; word; work
summary = Adv. temporarily &c adj.; pro tempore [Lat.]; for the moment, for a Adv. strongly &c adj.; fortiter in re [Lat.]; with telling effect. V. be liable &c adj.; incur, lay oneself open to; run the chance, stand Adv. by fits and starts; subsultorily^ &c adj.^; per saltum [Lat.]; hop Adv. silently &c adj.; sub silentio [Lat.]. Adv. negligently &c adj.; hand over head, anyhow; in an unguarded Adv. certainly &c adj.; for certain, certes [Lat.], sure, no doubt, be unexpected &c adj.; come unawares &c adv.; turn up, pop, drop Adv. diffusely &c adj.; at large, in extenso [Lat.]; about it and about Adj. restored &c v.; redivivus [Lat.], convalescent; in a fair way; Adv. sparingly &c adj.; ne quid nimis [Lat.]. Adv. virtuously &c, adj.; e merito [Lat.]. Adv. legally &c adj.; in the eye of the law; de jure [Lat.]. Adv. illegally &c adj.; with a high hand, in violation of law.
id = 9078
author = Sanders, Charles W. (Charles Walton)
title = Sanders'' Union Fourth Reader Embracing a Full Exposition of the Principles of Rhetorical Reading; with Numerous Exercises for Practice, Both in Prose and Poetry, Various in Style, and Carefully Adapted to the Purposes of Teaching in Schools of Every Grade
date =
keywords = CON; Cousin; DIS; Don; Emma; God; Grim; Harris; Headnote; Heaven; Horace; ING; Indians; James; John; LESSON; Mr.; Mrs.; OUS; PRE; TED; TER; Tis; Washington; examples; footnote; hope; like; man; tion; word; work; year
summary = let the voice rise; but after a complete sentence, pause the time of 8. "My dear boy," said Mr. Harris, "you have given me great pleasure. 9. Thirteen times in the year, Night, the teacher, gives extra lessons. and fly away to heavens without a winter, so men shall find a day when is said of this boy when he came to be three-score years old? 1. "Oh, you''re a _''prentice!_" said a little boy, the other day, said, "I know Frances is still living." At length, the mother''s heart "Wilt thou name," said the old Indian, "the red man who betrayed his Raising her dark eyes to heaven, the mother prayed the Great Father child, a bold little boy of four years old, whose beautiful blue eyes Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; 1. The first great lesson a young man should learn, is, that _he knows
id = 15364
author = Sargeaunt, John
title = Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin
date =
keywords = English; French; Greek; Latin; Milton; STEMS; long; pronunciation; rule; short; stress; vowel; word
summary = ON THE PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH WORDS DERIVED FROM LATIN ON THE PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH WORDS DERIVED FROM LATIN in the English pronunciation of words borrowed from Latin and Greek, stress coming as early in the word as was possible. Quintilian rule, that all words with a long unit as penultimate had the stress on the vowel in that unit, while words of more due to the English pronunciation, the influence of such words as understood that in the traditional pronunciation of Latin these words The consonants were pronounced as in English words derived from Latin. In words of more than two syllables with short penultima the vowel pronounced long if no consonant divided the two following vowels. an English word imported from the Latin. the Latin word is long. Of course all scholars shortened the first vowel of the word, and ''physician'' is a long word; and though it has been good English in
id = 15755
author = Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)
title = English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
date =
keywords = A.S.; Anglo; Dictionary; Durham; East; England; English; John; Kentish; Latin; London; Mercian; Midland; Northumbrian; Old; Saxon; Sir; Society; Southern; West; dialect; early; french; northern
summary = form, the history of our English dialects, from the eighth century years of the thirteenth century, when the East Midland dialect English, of the word _dialect_ was simply "a manner of speaking" dialect-speaker frequently uses words or modes of expression which he In fact, the _English Dialect Dictionary_ cites the phrase "is it a dialects of Scotland, Northumberland, Durham, and Yorkshire, the word But specimens of the oldest forms of the Northern and Midland dialects Though the Kentish dialect properly belongs to Southern English, _-feald_, _gealla_, _healf_, _healt_, _nearu_, _eald_, _seald_, With regard to dialectal Scandinavian, see the List of English Words, words of Scandinavian origin that are known to our dialects. various uses and localities, see the _English Dialect Dictionary_; and date (1674) many dialect words appeared in English Dictionaries, such Dictionaries containing dialect words. Anglo-French words in dialects, 94-96 Latin words in dialects, 87
id = 12390
author = Smith, Logan Pearsall
title = A Few Practical Suggestions Society for Pure English, Tract 03 (1920)
date =
keywords = English; French; Latin; Society; moral; word
summary = pronounced and written as English words, and there are others, like made complete; and a useful word like _malaise_ could with advantage The use of _ae_ and _oe_ in English words of classical origin was a _English_ words in this respect to the practice of editors of Latin texts. the ligature, not only in English words, but even in Latin or Greek names would be not only a good English-sounding word like _amber_ and _clamber_, distinguish strictly between the generic and the special use of the word and a most useful one, of _a_ French word. _moral_ is that (1) the French use the word _moral_ for what we used to occasional danger of confusion with the English word _moral_, and that English word _morale_, use ordinary type, call it morah''l, and ignore or abstain from the French word _morale_, of which we have no need.
id = 6158
author = Smith, William Alexander
title = The True Citizen: How to Become One
date =
keywords = Adams; Charles; England; GEMS; John; Lincoln; MEMORY; Mr.; New; Sir; States; United; Washington; York; american; boy; footnote; good; great; life; love; man; self; time; work
summary = manhood he is prepared to study men and things in a way to make success His power of observation gave him great happiness, from the time he It has cost many a man life or fortune for not knowing what he thought never saw a self-made man in my life who did not firmly believe that he The youthful period of man''s life is by far the most important. by the experience of great men like Dr. Cuyler, who said, not long ago, Think of a man just starting out in life to conquer the world being at times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be said to a friend: "There is little or nothing in this life worth living Take life like a man--as Whatever great thing in life a man does, he never would have done in
id = 7841
author = Smythe, E. Louise (Emma Louise)
title = A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children
date =
keywords = Jason; Loki; illustration
summary = "What a big duckling!" said the old duck. The little tree said, "I do not like needles. Night came and the little tree went to sleep. Then the little tree said, "I do not want any leaves. Loki said, "Good morning, Idun Those are beautiful apples." And Loki said, "Oh, nobody else can make such things as my little Brok said, "Loki has a golden crown that will grow like real hair. When he saw Loki, he said, "What do you want?" Loki said, "I have come for the hammer." Then he said to Jason, "You may be king when you bring me the golden When Jason came to Colchis, he went to the king and said, "Will you Now Jason went to the king and said, "Give me the dragon''s teeth." The next day Jason went to the king and said, "Now, give me the
id = 12358
author = Society for Pure English
title = Preliminary Announcement & List of Members Society for Pure English, Tract 01 (1919)
date =
keywords = English; LL.D.; Professor; Society
summary = SOCIETY for PURE ENGLISH (S.P.E.) In calling itself the Society for Pure English it was not overlooked the idea that words of foreign origin are _impurities_ in English; it I. Literary taste at the present time, with regard to foreign words matters; and a list of all such words with their English history would English language has undoubtedly weakened its ancient word-making Many words are added every year to the English vocabulary, but they HENRY BRADLEY, F.B.A., Ph.D., Joint Editor, Oxford English Dictionary, W.P. KER, F.B.A., Professor of English Literature, University College, *F.W. MOORMAN, Ph.D., Professor of English Language and Literature, Sir ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH, Litt.D., &c., Professor of English Sir WALTER RALEIGH, Professor of English Literature, Oxford G.C. MOORE SMITH, Litt,D., Professor of English Language and H.C.K. WYLD, B.Litt., Professor of English Language and Philology, G.S. GORDON, Professor of English Literature, Leeds C.H. HERFORD, Litt.D., Professor of English Literature, Manchester
id = 12524
author = Society for Pure English
title = The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden''s Poems Society for Pure English, Tract 05
date =
keywords = English; France; Mr.; O.E.D.; Paris; american; french; language; pronunciation; word
summary = FRENCH WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE French words that were borrowed were thoroughly naturalized in English, the ''English form of the French sound of the word would be approximately again, I am glad to accept another suggestion which I find in Tract No. 3, that _naivety_ be recognized and pronounced as an English word, and the proper French pronunciation to the words which he recognizes as English-speaking stage has probably more unassimilated French words than over a French word and giving it a meaning not acceptable in Paris, French words not infrequently used in English and misused by being Another French word, _bouquet_, is indisputably English; and yet when I ENGLISH WORDS IN FRENCH ENGLISH WORDS IN FRENCH French do when they adopt an English word into their language. pronunciations of the English words. It would seem from _high-life_ that English words in French
id = 13311
author = Society for Pure English
title = Three Articles on Metaphor Society for Pure English, Tract 11
date =
keywords = George; Mr.; dead; metaphor; word; writer
summary = Live and dead metaphor; some pitfalls; self-consciousness and mixed as an example of the real stone-dead metaphor; the Latin _examino_, are both dead metaphors so long as they are kept apart, but the description than mixed metaphor, since each of the words that conflict many times metaphors are mixed; readers versed in the mysteries of in fact entirely different; a man may change his metaphors as often as all; however, the as-good-as-dead metaphor of jam _is_ capable of saying ''many letters'', and ordinarily a dead metaphor; but once put Metaphor becomes a habit with writers who wish to express more emotion I prefer to use the word _dead_ of metaphors metaphor means only that Mr. George is not spoiled, and the fact that metaphor that has long seemed dead, as it gives life to the commonest Further, the use of dead metaphor weakens a writer''s sense of the
id = 5849
author = Spencer, Herbert
title = The Philosophy of Style
date =
keywords = effect; great; idea; mind; sentence; thought; word
summary = that "long sentences fatigue the reader''s attention." It is remarked by other cases, where custom allows us to express thoughts by single words, collocation of words, in the best arrangement of clauses in a sentence, it be an advantage to express an idea in the smallest number of words, of cases, each word serving but as a step to the idea embodied by the saving of the effort required to translate words into thoughts. every sentence, the sequence of words should be that which suggests And as effect is gained by placing first all words The general principle of right arrangement in sentences, which we that the words and expressions most nearly related in thought shall and arrangements is great, in proportion as the time and mental effort the order of the words, in the frequent use of figures, and in extreme a form of words and realizing its contained idea, we have to consider
id = 37134
author = Strunk, William
title = The Elements of Style
date =
keywords = Rule; clause; expression; form; paragraph; sentence; word; writer
summary = preceding or following the main clause of a sentence. conjunction, are to form a single compound sentence, the proper mark of It is of course equally correct to write the above as two sentences The word _walking_ refers to the subject of the sentence, not to the 9. As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence, end it in 9. As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence, end it in This rule does not, of course, mean that the writer should entirely words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a The position of the words in a sentence is the principal means of The subject of a sentence and the principal verb should not, as a rule, Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end. Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end.
id = 34316
author = Sweet, Henry
title = Anglo-Saxon Primer, With Grammar, Notes, and Glossary Eighth Edition Revised
date =
keywords = Acc; Dat; English; Gen.; God; Godes; Latin; Nom; Old; PLURAL; PRET; SINGULAR; h[=e; h[=i]e; sw[=a; t[=o; þ[=a; þ[=æ]m; þæt
summary = lande wæs sum mann, L[=e]ofr[=i][.c] [.g]e·h[=a]ten_ (in that country was a _Wolde_ is used after verbs of _purpose_:--_se cyning [=e]ode inn þæt he up to this present day); _þæt h[=i]e þone Godes mann [=a]·bitan scolden_ be·b[=e]ad þæt man scolde ofer eall Angel-cynn s[.c]ipu wyr[.c]an; 15 God cwæþ t[=o] No[=e]: ''Ic wile for·d[=o]n eall mann-cynn mid H[=i]e ealle on þone cyning w[=æ]ron feohtende, oþ þæt h[=i]e 165 Þ[=a] [=e]ode se cyning inn, þæt h[=e] wolde [.g]e·s[=e]on þ[=a] þe wæs þ[=a] of·togen [=æ]lces f[=o]dan siex dagas, þæt h[=i]e þone Godes folce, on J[=u]d[=e]a-lande, and for hiera m[=a]n-d[=æ]dum God þæt [.g]e·lamp hit þæt Peohtas c[=o]mon s[=u]þan of Scithian mid þæt h[=i]e þæs cyninges [=a]nes ealle c[=e]pan scolden, þe his h[=æ]se oþ þæt h[=e] eall wæs be·s[e,]tt mid hiera scotungum, swelce [=i]les t[=o] sl[e,][.g]e, and mid [=a]num sw[e,]n[.g]e sl[=o]gon him of þæt wæs eall sw[=a] [.g]e·h[=a]l swelce h[=e] cwic w[=æ]re, mid cl[=æ]num Þa weorþode þæt land-folc mid [.g]e·l[=e]afan þone
id = 28569
author = Tappan, Eva March
title = Makers of Many Things
date =
keywords = cut; illustration; little; machine; paper; pen; rubber; thread; work
summary = way is to cut it into strips, lay it upon steel trays, and place it rubber-lined cloth go to the cutting-room, where all the different people are at work making various kinds of leather coverings for their All this slow, careful work is needed to prepare the skin for cutting paper, the dandy is covered with plain woven wire like that of the The paper is now not in sheets, but in a long web like a web of cloth. can look back to the papers of that time; but when people fifty years "silk." Not only water but also fire can be kept out by paper if it is cloth-bound book, two pieces of pasteboard of the right size are cut even now there is nothing that looks like pens; but the next machine of a delicate little machine doing such fine work that it could cut
id = 6480
author = Trench, Richard Chenevix
title = On the Study of Words
date =
keywords = Christ; Church; Cicero; Dictionary; England; English; French; God; Greece; Greek; Italian; LECTURE; Latin; Lord; Middle; New; Norman; Rome; Saxon; Sprache; St.; bear; christian; fact; footnote; german; great; history; language; life; little; man; mean; roman; scripture; thing; time; word
summary = ''In a language,'' he says, ''like ours, where so many words are derived etymology or primary meaning of the words they use. [Footnote: ''Frank,'' though thus originally a German word, for man is not a mere speaking machine; God did not teach him words, as tracing of the succession of changes in meaning which certain words should possess a word to express the pleasure which men feel at the is that the language should have one and the same word ([Greek: kalos]), follow great and significant words to the time and place of their birth. of men''s thoughts, bringing in not merely a word new to Greek ears, but the French ''cagot.'' [Footnote: The word meant in old times ''a leper''; subsisting world of words and things, [Footnote: J. [Footnote: The word ''synonym'' only found its way into the English word, for we speak of the Greek and Latin as the ''classical'' languages,
id = 15577
author = Vail, Henry Hobart
title = A History of the McGuffey Readers
date =
keywords = Cincinnati; College; Dr.; McGuffey; Mr.; Ohio; Readers; Smith; Wilson; book
summary = For more than seventy years the McGuffey Readers have held high rank as use is called The New McGuffey Readers. As at first published, the lower books of the McGuffey Readers had no the end of his life he held that McGuffey''s Sixth Reader was a great Reader of the Eclectic Series." The work of revision occupied two years. publishers of the "Newly Revised McGuffey Readers," therefore, sought As business men, the publishers of McGuffey''s Readers desired to learn These four books constituted the original series of the Eclectic Readers manuscript of a book to be called McGuffey''s Rhetorical Reader, or by The firm of Truman & Smith published several miscellaneous books, mostly The first four editions of McGuffey''s Readers were printed from the The latest revision of the McGuffey Readers, five books, was prepared The revised edition of the McGuffey Readers, having no author''s name on
id = 11921
author = Various
title = The Illustrated London Reading Book
date =
keywords = Account; CAMPBELL; Charles; Emperor; England; Europe; France; God; India; John; King; Letter; Lord; Mr.; Prince; Sir; St.; act; animal; bird; country; day; description; foot; form; good; great; high; illustration; large; life; like; line; long; man; mind; nature; old; place; power; time; tree; turkish; v.a; water
summary = In eating, parrots make great use of the feet, which they employ like times during the day in streams and marshy places; and having shaken the Thinking how fast time runs--life''s end how near. great art and labour, some of them probably act under the direction of observation the living things that dwell in the worlds around us, life contained in a single drop of water, appear like mere animated globules, The hen canary lays her eggs four or five times a year, and thus a great bird in a state of nature, for it is a kind of compound of notes learned As the great eye that lights the earth, shone bright, general form and habits they bear a great resemblance to the ferrets, The great body of water does not fall American Fall presented the appearance of light-green water and feathery stage for a great number of years; occasionally, also, appearing as a
id = 29765
author = Various
title = Webster''s Unabridged Dictionary
date =
keywords = Anat; Arch; Biol; Bot; Chaucer; Chem; Colloq; Compar; Dan; Dryden; East; Eng; England; English; Europe; God; Goth; Icel; Illust; Indies; Jonson; Law; Lith; Med; Milton; Min; Naut; New; OHG; Obs; Old; Physiol; Plowman; Prov; Scot; Shak; Sir; Skr; Slang; South; States; United; Wall; West; Wit; Zoö-; Zoöl; akin; american; australian; bad; defn; etym; european; form; german; indian; like; north; note; pertain; physics; walk; watch; water; way; wear; weather; wheel; whip; white; wild; wind; wine; wing; winter; wire; wood; word; work; worm; yellow
summary = Etym: [Voltaic + Gr. Defn: A form of voltaic, or galvanic, battery suitable for use Defn: Any long-legged bird that wades in the water in search of food, Defn: Having a top, or head, shaped like the top of a covered wagon, Defn: Any one of many species of Old World singing birds belonging to Defn: Any one of numerous species of small Old World singing birds Defn: (Zoöl.) A Brazilian fly whose larvæ live in the skin of man and Defn: A basin, or bowl, to hold water for washing one''s hands, face, Defn: A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -called also wastel Defn: A large, open-headed cask, set up on end, to contain water. Defn: A cell containing water; specifically (Zoöl.), one of the cells Defn: Having a left-hand twist; -said of cordage; as, a water-laid, Defn: To work [Obs.] Chaucer.
id = 28097
author = Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)
title = English: Composition and Literature
date =
keywords = Burke; Coherence; England; English; Hawthorne; Irving; Literature; Lowell; Macaulay; Mass; Milton; Newman; Old; Riverside; Series; Sir; Stevenson; argument; author; description; form; man; paragraph; sentence; story; thing; time; word
summary = be given to parts; that is, to paragraphs, sentences, and words. Paragraphs, sentences, and words are well chosen when form of paragraph, who always uses periodic sentences, who chooses school course, the essay, the paragraph, the sentence, the word, are demands that those parts of a composition, paragraph, or sentence quite correct in the choice of words, sentences, and paragraphs, and paragraphs the sentences have an average of fifteen words. Paragraph structure, sentence structure, and choice of words are taken Right words in well-massed paragraphs of vivid description should be words and phrases, there are employed sentences and paragraphs of What arrangement of sentences in the paragraph does he use most, Does he place the topic sentence near the beginning of the paragraphs? the study of paragraphs, sentences, and words. A sentence is a group of words expressing a complete thought. end contains words of distinction, and the sentence forms a climax.
id = 40550
author = Wharton, Marian
title = Plain English
date =
keywords = COLLEGE; Education; English; God; John; Latin; PEOPLE; Plural; Singular; adjective; adverb; clause; comrade; conjunction; example; exercise; express; form; lesson; man; mark; noun; object; past; phrase; sentence; spelling; subject; time; verb; word; write
summary = English does not mean the ability to use long, high-sounding words. be a master of good English means to be able to use the word that meets +15.+ +A sentence is a group of words expressing a complete thought.+ this word we would have to use two sentences to express our thought, connective word, we would have to use two sentences to express these two The hundreds of words which we use in forming our sentences +282.+ +An adverb is a word that modifies the meaning of a verb, an +282.+ +An adverb is a word that modifies the meaning of a verb, an Use the following adverbs in sentences to modify verbs: Use the following adverbs in sentences to modify adjectives: Whenever you use a word to modify a verb, adjective or another adverb, In the first sentence the word _quickly_ is an adverb modifying the verb
id = 18119
author = Williams, Lida Myrtle
title = How to Teach Phonics
date =
keywords = child; pupil; sound; word
summary = The pupil should now begin sounding words for himself, at first, if need 1. _Analyze Known Words in Teaching the Consonant Sounds._ As new words are met containing known sounds, the pupils should apply the pupils sound "c," the teacher pronouncing "atch" underlining that part of the word as she tells it,--the pupil puts these sounds together consonants are taught, from suitable sight words which the child has she wishes to use as type words in teaching the consonant sounds. phonetic words from dictation as well as to "spell by sound." b. Pupils write sounds as teacher dictates. consonants and listen to discover "word sounds." Henceforth the children After a little drill in analyzing the words of a family, (sounding the When the "m" sound is being taught let all words consonants with this, the pupil pronounces the new list of words without pronouncing "the" with the long sound of "e" before words beginning with
id = 30778
author = Winslow, Horatio
title = Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers
date =
keywords = chapter; english; form; line; rhyme; verse
summary = mere verse writer who cannot rhyme correctly and fit his lines together A first-class exercise is to write verse without rhyme or very much to take a dozen lines or more of good verse and break them up into feet. number of lines arranged in a certain rhyming order. In sharp dramatic verse one must use a simple stanza form verse maker, the student should copy and imitate every stanza form not humorous verse, helping along the rhythm and binding the lines together. stanzas in which the second and fourth lines of the first verse are used as the first and third lines of the second verse, and so on _ad suggestions for new stanza forms and fresh verse in general. verse, for in general its writers seek difficult stanza forms with its meaning--to study every word until the verse not only rhymes and because they contain examples of the best work of to-day''s verse makers.
id = 15170
author = Withers, Sarah
title = The Child''s World: Third Reader
date =
keywords = Brother; Christmas; Epaminondas; HARE; Mary; Monkey; Rabbit; Wolf; good; hedgehog; illustration; little
summary = Once at sunset an old man came through the forest where the poplar trees "Let us fly away together!" the mother bird said. One day Mary''s mother said, "Aunt Dilsey, Mary needs a new dress, and I The kind shepherd said, "I will." Then he led the old white sheep to the Soon the spinners said, "The little girl wants a new dress. emperor walked under the trees, she said, "I believe I could find a way Brother Rabbit said, "I''d like to know what they are talking about." So When Little Brother came to the great stone church and looked up at the One day Gray Wolf said to Wild Cat, "Let us watch the Rabbit and see Then the rabbit said, "Brother Wolf, I know a new dance. "Just as you please," said the old duck, and she went away. "Good morning, old man," said the stranger. "Good morning," said the old man.
id = 22577
author = Wood, Thomas
title = Practical Grammar and Composition
date =
keywords = EXERCISE; Glossary; John; Mary; Mr.; Pennsylvania; Progressive; Simple; Smith; Substitute; active; case; clause; form; good; letter; past; perfect; present; right; sentence; tense; voice; word; wrong
summary = Words have different uses in sentences. to their uses, words are divided into classes called Parts of Speech. she means_, and is a noun clause forming the object of the verb failure to use the proper case forms in the sentence is one of _Write sentences illustrating the correct use of each of the following _In the following sentences choose the proper form from the words _Write sentences illustrating the correct use of the following simple Both the following sentences are wrong: _He sent me to see John, _Insert the proper form of the verb in the following sentences. _Correct the errors in the use of verbs in the following sentences:_ _Write sentences in which the following verb forms are properly _Form an original sentence showing the proper use of each of the _Choose the proper form of the verb in the following sentences:_ _Justify the correct use of SHALL and WILL in the following sentences:_
id = 38412
author = Young, Ella Flagg
title = The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2
date =
keywords = Apollo; Childe; Rowland; Wind; little
summary = "It is far away," said the wise man. At last Childe Rowland went to his mother the queen and said: But Childe Rowland asked again and again, till at last the queen said, When she saw Childe Rowland, she came to him and said: "Then," said the little black thing, "I will come here to your window "Yes," said the little black thing, and my! At that the little black thing gave a great cry, and away he flew, out "You are a very little mouse, but I think I will eat you," he said. The man said nothing, but jumped into the pond and soon came out with "I don''t want glass leaves," said the little tree. "I think I don''t want leaves after all," said the little pine tree. "I saw it there, under that big coconut tree," said the little hare.
id = 10294
author = nan
title = Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading Selected from English and American Literature
date =
keywords = Old; POPULAR; PROVERBS; Robert; SAYINGS; come; good; little
summary = The attentive reader of this little book will be apt to notice very soon I have a little sister _Mother Goose_ THE LITTLE BOY LOST _William Blake_ The little moon came out too soon, In comes the little dog, Said little Mary Green; Said little Alice Neal; Little boy blue, come blow your horn, My bed is like a little boat; Once I saw a little bird Once I saw a little bird So I cried, "Little bird, There was a little boy went into a barn, And the little boy ran away. A fair little girl sat under a tree, And good little Lucy tied up her hair, When I was a little boy, I lived by myself, "With my little book, If a little child, like me, should say, Little lamb, I''ll tell thee. He became a little child, There was an Old Man who said, "Well!
id = 12025
author = nan
title = English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of the Art of Writing
date =
keywords = Christ; Dante; Dr.; English; Europe; Footnote; God; Heidegger; Huxley; Markheim; Mr.; Plato; Professor; Shakespeare; Stoics; Walden; art; book; day; education; find; form; good; great; greek; high; human; knowledge; life; like; little; long; look; man; manner; matter; mean; mind; nature; old; power; roman; thing; time; way; work; world
summary = Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. house and common day''s work: but the things of life are the same to things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, connection with the life of a great workaday world like the United Such a man will pass his life happily in collecting natural power of relating the modern results of natural science to man''s Natural talk, like ploughing, should turn up a large surface of life, Men feel that a certain course of life is the natural end of meaning of life, and, as I personally believe, into the nature of the this power is due to the very fact that man also is one of nature''s than a naturalism--humanized merely by the thought that man, being, appearances of nature and the thoughts and feelings of men--being
id = 19721
author = nan
title = The Literary World Seventh Reader
date =
keywords = Alden; Ariel; Athelstane; Boeuf; Bracy; Captain; Cedric; Doggie; England; Ernest; Esmond; Face; God; Great; Gurth; Harry; Indians; Ivanhoe; John; Kate; Lady; Mr.; Old; Oliver; Rip; Saxon; Stone; Suzanne; Trafford; Van; Wamba; Winkle; help; look; man
summary = As I have said above, it had already been rumored in the valley that Mr. Gathergold had turned out to be the person so long and vainly looked glancing at the Great Stone Face for years before, now spent their time "Fear not, Ernest," said his heart, even as if the Great Face were valley, paused to look at the Great Stone Face, they imagined that they "O majestic friend," he said, addressing the Great Stone Face, "is not never saw the Great Stone Face look so hospitably at a stranger." golden light of the setting sun, appeared the Great Stone Face, with Then all the people looked and saw that what the deep-sighted poet said will be a great feast to-day, and to-night the young men and maidens turned the heads of old men and young boys, and even succeeded in "The man is old and feeble," she said to Cedric, "the maiden young and
id = 22399
author = nan
title = The Fireside Picture Alphabet or Humour and Droll Moral Tales; or Words & their Meanings Illustrated
date =
keywords = BAKER; MAYHEW; illustration
summary = Publish the following list of new and beautiful Illustrated Juveniles, delightful moral stories, with comic Illustrations. With New and Original Comic Illustrations, Music, &c. Illustrated with Plans for Laying out the Grounds and forming Clubs, Also, Rules and Regulations which govern several Base Ball Clubs. [Illustration: LAUGH AND LEARN] Of imitation by the boy Illustrations of Natural History. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED. "This book takes up the story of ''The Swiss Family Robinson,'' and story is preserved with admirable effect; and if any thing, ''Willis, "''The Swiss Family Robinson'' never seemed to quite finish its story, and the author of ''Willis, the Pilot,'' has hit upon a happy idea in who have been entranced by the tale of the Swiss Family, and will here THE NEW GAME MAYHEW AND BAKER, 208 WASHINGTON STREET, MAYHEW AND BAKER, 208 WASHINGTON STREET, MAYHEW AND BAKER, 208 WASHINGTON STREET, MAYHEW AND BAKER, 208 WASHINGTON STREET,
id = 30559
author = nan
title = Eighth Reader
date =
keywords = Cæsar; Fezziwig; God; Henry; Hubert; Jemima; John; Maggie; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Pinkerton; Sedley; Tom; William; american; day; english; expression; footnote; great; illustration; like; little; man
summary = cobnuts?" Maggie''s heart sank a little, because Tom always said it was "I don''t know," said Tom. He didn''t want to "tell" of Maggie, though he "You are too young to know how the world changes every day," said Mrs. Creakle, "and how the people in it pass away. "When you came away from home at the end of the vacation," said Mrs. Creakle, after a pause, "were they all well?" After another pause, "Was fat, short-winded, merry-looking little old man in black, with rusty "Will you come with me, young sir, if you please," he said, opening the Roman-nosed head, she said, "Miss Sharp, I wish you a good morning." "Then, Locksley," said Prince John, "thou shalt shoot in thy turn, when "Look to him close, men at arms," said Prince John, "his heart is "Comrades in God," it said, "the time is come when that which is great
id = 31456
author = nan
title = The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children
date =
keywords = Africa; Anna; Bud; God; John; Land; Margaret; Mr.; Negro; Robertson; South; WILLIAM; Washington; american; boy; day; good; great; illustration; little; man; time; year
summary = Washington mother, be she black or white, as seeing her boy in the blue days of hard work for Hannah Davis, when her son went into the High just to see the joy and pride of "little sister," who adored Bud. As the time for the competitive drill drew near there was an air of The great day came, and it was a wonderful crowd of people that packed wages; how Josie longed to go away to school, but that it "looked like" A young man starts out in life with the determination to fight his way to-day white men are marrying eagerly the landed Indian women in the ferry-boat at that time, on board of which I met a young colored man by "I once knew a little colored boy whose father and mother died when he "Thank you, my little boy," smiled the man.
id = 37683
author = nan
title = Chambers''s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)
date =
keywords = -AL; A.S.; ACID; AWAY; Acc; Africa; Anglo; Asia; BALL; BEAR; BILL; BLUE; BOARD; BOX; BREAK; Bible; Britain; CAN''DLE; CAST; CAT; COAL; COCK; COUN''TER; CROSS; CRY; CUT; Celt; China; Christ; Christian; Church; Court; DEMI; DEVIL; DOUB''LE; DUTCH; Dan; Dictionary; Diez; Dim; Dut; East; England; English; Ety; Europe; Fr.--L.; France; Gael; Ger; God; HOUSE; Heb; High; Hind; Holy; Ice; Indies; Ireland; John; Late; Latin; Littré; London; Lord; Low; Milton; Murray; New; North; Old; Orig; Oxford; Perh; Pers; Pfx; Port; Prep; Prob; R.C.; Rome; Sans; Scand; Scot; Scotch; Scotland; Shak; Sir; Skeat; South; Spain; Spens; States; Testament; Teut; Turk; U.S.; United; West; account; act; action; adj; adv; air; american; ancient; animal; arch; arm; art; bad; beat; bed; belong; bird; black; blood; blow; body; book; british; burn; card; case; catch; century; certain; change; chief; child; close; cloth; cog; coin; colour; common; compound; contain; corn; cover; dark; day; death; debt; deprive; dis; dog; door; draw; dress; drink; drive; drop; early; end; esp; face; fall; family; figure; fish; flower; foot; force; form; free; french; game; general; genus; german; good; great; greek; half; hand; head; hold; illustration; indian; instrument; irish; iron; jewish; kind; kon; l.,--gr; large; law; leave; life; light; like; line; long; manner; mark; mean; measure; metal; mind; money; n.pl; native; near; neg; number; obs; officer; open; order; origin; pa.p; pass; pay; person; phrase; piece; place; plant; play; point; power; produce; public; quality; red; roman; root; round; sea; self; sense; separate; set; shape; ship; short; slang; small; spanish; stone; strike; substance; support; term; thing; throw; time; tooth; tree; turkish; turn; v.i; v.t; vessel; water; way; wear; white; wind; wood; word; work
summary = act of joining: the thing joined.--_adj._ ADJUNCT''IVE, joining.--_advs._ with.--_adj._ formed of parts taken together.--_n._ the sum total.--_adv._ relations, thus forming a kind of universal arithmetic.--_adjs._ ALIKE, a-l[=i]k'', _adj._ like one another: having resemblance.--_adv._ in amphitheatre in form.--_adjs._ AMPHITHEAT''RICAL, AMPHITHEAT''RAL.--_adv._ transformation into human shape.--_adj._ ANTHROPOMORPH''OUS, formed like or aphorisms.--_adj._ APHORIS''TIC, in the form of an aphorism.--_adv._ growth.--_adj._ ARBORES''CENT, growing or formed like a tree: (_archit._) up.--_n._ ASPIR[=A]''TION, eager desire.--_adj._ ASP[=I]R''ING.--_adv._ BASE, b[=a]s, _adj._ low in place, value, estimation, or principle: mean: BEADS''WOMAN.--_adj._ BEAD''Y, bead-like, small and bright (of eyes): covered the canon form--originally synonymous with the _round_.--_adj._ CATCH''ABLE, CLEAN''ING, the act of making clean.--_adj._ CLEAN''-LIMBED, having CONTENT[=A]''TION (_obs._).--_adj._ CONTENT''ED, content.--_adv._ corruption.--_adj._ CORRUPT''IVE, having the quality of corrupting.--_adv._ exploits.--_adv._ DEED''ILY.--_adjs._ DEED''LESS (_Shak._), not having (_Spens._).--_p.adj._ DESPAIR''ING, apt to despair: full of despair.--_adv._ DEVOUR''ER.--_adj._ DEVOUR''ING.--_adv._ DEVOUR''INGLY.--_n._ DEVOUR''MENT. DISCOID, -AL, dis''koid, -al, _adj._ having the form of a disc. DISCONFORMABLE, dis-kon-form''a-bl, _adj._ not conformable.--_n._
id = 38538
author = nan
title = Chambers''s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)
date =
keywords = -AL; A.D.; A.S.; Africa; Asia; B.C.; Bacon; Bible; Britain; Cambridge; Celt; China; Christ; Church; Contr; Corr; Court; Dan; Dut; ELEC''TRO; END; EYE; East; Egypt; England; Ety; Europe; FEE; FORE; France; Gael; Ger; God; Goth; Greece; Greek; HARD; HEAD; HOLY; HOUSE; High; Hind; I''RON; Ice; Imit; Indies; Ireland; Italy; James; Japan; Jews; John; Joseph; LAY; Latin; London; Lord; Low; MAN; MARK; MAS''TER; MONK''EY; M[=U]''SIC; Mary; Middle; Milt; Mohammedan; New; North; Norw; Old; Orig; Oxford; Perh; Pers; Pope; Prob; R.C.; Rome; Sans; Scand; Scot; Scotch; Scotland; Shak; Skeat; South; Spain; Spens; Tennessee; Testament; Teut; Turk; U.S.; United; Virgin; West; act; action; adj; american; ancient; animal; arm; australian; away; bear; belong; bird; blood; body; book; bot; british; cause; century; certain; change; child; chinese; christian; cloth; coin; colour; come; common; contain; country; cover; cut; day; death; degree; dim; disease; draw; dress; early; earth; effect; egyptian; eks; english; enter; equal; esp; european; evil; face; fall; family; far; fast; figure; fine; fire; fish; fit; flower; fly; foot; form; free; french; freq; fruit; game; genus; german; glass; gold; good; great; ground; hair; half; hand; hang; heart; heavy; heb; hebrew; hold; home; hot; illustration; indian; instrument; interest; italian; jewish; kind; king; l.,--gr; language; large; law; lead; leave; leg; letter; lie; life; light; like; line; little; live; long; look; loose; manner; material; matter; mean; measure; metal; mind; mis; money; motion; mount''ain; n.pl; native; natural; number; object; obs; obtain; open; order; pa.p; pa.t; paper; pass; person; piece; place; plant; play; point; position; power; process; produce; property; prov; public; quality; resemble; roman; root; run; science; sea; second; self; set; shape; ship; short; single; skin; slang; small; sound; spanish; speak; state; stone; strike; substance; surface; t[.e]r; term; thing; throw; time; tree; turn; v.i; v.t; vessel; want; water; way; wear; white; wood; word; work; year; young
summary = powers of body or mind.--_adj._ EDUC[=A]''TIONAL.--_adv._ ELASTIC, e-las''tik, _adj._ having a tendency to recover the original form: spirit-like.--_n._ ETHEREAL''ITY.--_adv._ ETH[=E]''REALLY.--_adj._ facet upon, or cover with facets.--_adj._ FAC''ETED, having or formed into place.--_adj._ FAULT''FUL (_Shak._), full of faults or crimes.--_adv._ flame.--_adj._ FL[=A]M''ING, red: gaudy: violent.--_adv._ wanton woman; FLIRT''ING.--_adv._ FLIRT''INGLY, in a flirting manner.--_adj._ water acts and moves the wheel; FLOAT''ER.--_adj._ FLOAT''ING, swimming: not acting with power: impetuous.--_adv._ FORCE''FULLY.--_adj._ FORCE''LESS, fish in certain waters.--_adjs._ FREE-FOOT''ED (_Shak._) not restrained in pedigree of a particular person or family.--_adj._ GENEALOG''ICAL.--_adv._ act of passing by or ahead in motion.--_adj._ GO-TO-MEET''ING (_coll._), half.--_adv._ HALF''ENDEAL (_Spens._), half.--_adjs._ HALF''-FACED (_Shak._), pictures.--_adj._ (_Shak._) renowned.--_n._ ILLUSTR[=A]''TION, act of making of form and colour; IMPRESS''IONIST.--_adv._ IMPRESSIONIS''TIC.--_adj._ without the usual forms of authority.--_adv._ INOFFIC''IALLY.--_adj._ inquire; INQUIR''ER.--_adj._ INQUIR''ING, given to inquiry.--_adv._ of office: not long past--also _adv._--_adj._ LAT''ED (_Shak._), belated, expect.--_adv._ probably.--_adj._ LIKE''-MIND''ED, having a similar kind.--_adj._ LONG''-HEAD''ED, having good intellectual powers: MOE, m[=o], _adj._ and _adv._ (_Shak._).
id = 38699
author = nan
title = Chambers''s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)
date =
keywords = -AL; A.S.; Asia; Bacon; Britain; Celt; Charles; Christ; Church; Dan; Dut; East; England; France; Gael; Ger; God; Greece; High; Hind; Ice; Imit; India; Ireland; Jews; Late; Lord; Low; MACHINE; Milt; NON; New; North; Old; PIE; POST; POW''DER; PRE; PUB''LIC; P[=A]''PER; Perh; Pers; Pope; Prob; R.C.; RACK; RIDE; RIV''ER; RUN''NING; R[=I]''DING; Rome; Sans; Scand; Scot; Scotch; Scotland; Shak; South; Spens; States; Tennessee; Teut; U.S.; United; act; action; adj; african; american; ancient; animal; art; bear; bird; body; bone; book; bot; bring; british; cause; century; certain; change; colour; common; condition; country; cover; cut; day; dim; disease; draw; eastern; end; english; esp; european; eye; family; figure; find; fine; fire; fish; flower; foot; force; form; forward; french; genus; german; good; great; greek; hand; head; hold; horse; illustration; instrument; jewish; kind; l.,--gr; large; law; leave; letter; life; like; line; little; long; manner; mark; mean; measure; metal; mind; money; n.pl; natural; nature; nose; note; number; o]-v[.e]r; object; obs; office; oil; open; order; organ; owt; pa.p; pa.t; pan; paper; par; pass; pay; person; piece; place; plant; play; point; power; private; produce; property; public; purpose; quality; quar''ter; queen; question; race; rank; receive; red; repeat; resemble; rest; return; right; rise; rock; roman; root; round; rule; run; science; self; set; shape; ship; short; small; stone; strong; surface; system; thing; throw; time; tree; turn; v.i; v.t; vessel; water; way; wheel; wood; word; work
summary = NAPIFORM, n[=a]p''i-form, _adj._ shaped like a turnip: large and round above NEAR, n[=e]r, _adj._ nigh: not far away in place or time: close in kin or NECESSIT[=A]''TION.--_adjs._ NECESS''ITIED (_Shak._), in a state of want; NEXT, nekst, _adj._ (_superl._ of NIGH) nearest in place, time, &c.--_adv._ NIGHT''-LINE, a fishing-line set overnight.--_adj._ and _adv._ NIGHT''LONG, NOTT-HEADED, not''-hed''ed, _adj._ (_Shak._) having the hair cut singular person or thing.--_adj._ ODD''-LOOK''ING, having a singular various colours and forms bearing the figures of birds.--_adj._ PARTIC''ULARNESS.--_adj._ PARTIC''UL[=A]TE, having the form of a small young: fruitful.--_n._ PART[=U]RI''TION, act of bringing forth.--_adj._ PAT, pat, _adj._ fitly: at the right time or place.--_adv._ PAT''LY, fitly, grains.--_v.i._ to take a rounded form: to become like pearls.--_adj._ spoken of.--_adj._ PER''SONABLE, having a well-formed body or person: of head.--_adj._ QUADRANG''ULAR, of the form of a quadrangle.--_adv._ Reform Bill.--_adj._ REFOR''MABLE.--_n._ REFORM[=A]''TION, the act of forming the roof.--_adj._ ROOF''Y, having a roof or roofs.--FRENCH ROOF, a form of
id = 38700
author = nan
title = Chambers''s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)
date =
keywords = -AL; A.S.; AUT; Anglo; Asia; B.C.; BON; Bacon; Bible; Bishop; Britain; Cambridge; Celt; China; Christ; Church; Civil; College; Council; Cross; Dan; December; Dict; Duke; Dut; EST; East; Edinburgh; England; English; Ety; Europe; Fellow; Fr.--L.; France; French; Gael; General; Ger; God; Goth; Grand; HOC; HOUSE; Heb; High; Hind; Holy; Hon; Ice; Imit; Indies; Ireland; Italy; Jews; John; Knight; Late; Latin; London; Lord; Low; MACHINE; MAN; Majesty; Malay; Mary; Member; Milt; NON; New; North; Norw; Old; Orig; POST; Perh; Pers; Port; Prob; QUI; Queen; R.C.; Rev.; Rome; Royal; Russ; SADD''LE; SAFE''TY; SAIL; SALT; SAT''IN; SELF; SEM''I; SERVE; SET; SIL''VER; SING''LE; SON; STICK; STONE; SUG''AR; Sabbath; Sans; Saxon; Scand; Scot; Scotch; Scotland; Shak; Sir; Society; South; Spain; Spens; States; Sunday; TREE; T[=A]''BLE; Testament; Teut; Trinity; Turk; U.S.; United; Virgin; WA''TER; WARE; WEATH''ER; WHITE; WIN''DOW; WIN''TER; West; William; YEAR; YELL''OW; accord; act; action; adj; adv; african; american; ancient; animal; arm; art; australian; bear; bird; blood; body; book; bot; british; capable; cause; century; certain; change; character; chief; child; chinese; christian; class; close; cloth; cog; coin; coll; colour; common; condition; cover; cut; day; degree; denote; dim; disease; division; double; draw; dress; dry; early; end; esp; european; eye; face; fall; family; fem; fine; fish; fit; flat; flower; foot; force; form; free; freq; genus; german; good; grace; great; greek; ground; hair; half; hand; hard; head; hold; illustration; indian; instrument; irish; iron; italian; jewish; kind; l.,--gr; large; law; leave; let; letter; lie; life; like; line; little; live; long; lordship; manner; mark; mean; measure; metal; mind; money; motion; mus; n.pl; native; natural; noun; number; obs; officer; open; order; oriental; pa.p; pa.t; paper; pass; pay; person; piece; place; plant; play; point; power; process; produce; prov; q.v; quality; right; rock; roman; root; run; russian; school; science; scripture; sea; season; second; sense; separate; service; seven; shape; sharp; ship; short; sign; sing; skeat; skin; slang; small; soft; solid; sound; spanish; specie; spirit; spring; step; strike; strong; sub; substance; suffix; sun; supply; support; surface; system; table; tail; tear; term; thing; thread; throw; time; tooth; trans; turkish; turn; twist; v.i; v.t; value; verse; vessel; want; war; water; way; wear; week; wheel; wife; wind; wine; wing; wood; word; work; wrong; young
summary = SCAPHOID, skaf''oid, _adj._ boat-like in form, noting two bones, one in the a hood, a monastic working dress.--_adj._ SCAP''[=U]LARY, in form like a like.--_n._ (_Spens._) resemblance, figure.--_adj._ SEM''BLATIVE (_Shak._), SEPTIFORM, sep''ti-form, _adj._ sevenfold, having seven parts: like a sovereign: a small American fresh-water fish.--_adj._ SH[=I]''NING.--_adv._ SICKER, sik''[.e]r, _adj._ (_Scot._) sure, certain, firm.--_adv._ (_Spens._) coin.--_adv._ SIL''VERLY (_Shak._), with the appearance of silver.--_adjs._ SLEEK''ING, the act of making smooth.--_adj._ SLEEK''IT (_Scot._), having a black-and-white, with large pendent ears.--_adj._ (_Shak._) like a spaniel, SPIRAL''ITY.--_adv._ SP[=I]''RALLY, in a spiral form or direction.--_adj._ water.--_adjs._ STALAC''TIC, -AL, STALACTIT''IC, -AL, having the form or form.--_adj._ narrowed towards the point, like a taper: long and THEOMORPHIC, th[=e]-[=o]-mor''fik, _adj._ having the form or likeness of a stone-plover.--_adj._ THICK''-LIPPED (_Shak._), having thick lips.--_adv._ (_Shak._), having a thin face.--_adv._ THIN''LY.--_n._ THIN''NESS.--_adjs._ for its streaked flowers.--_adjs._ T[=I]''GER-FOOT''ED (_Shak._), hastening having certain common qualities.--_adj._ TRIB''AL.--_n._ TRIB''ALISM.--_adv._ UMQUHILE, um''hw[=i]l, _adv._ and _adj._ a Scotch form of UM''WHILE,