Exercises in Orthography and DerivationT. J. Allman, 1861 - 170 pages |
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adjectives adverb AHN'S Amagnetized animal body breath brother Cæsar called Charles chester Castle chief cloth coin color compound consonant covered cried David Rizzio derived dogs earth Edward Edward III Empress Maude England English Exercise fire of London flows form their plurals French friends fruit gold ground gutta-percha hath heart Henry honor horse hunting island kind of tree king labour land Latin letter live loud Matilda of Scotland Medes ment metal neighbouring ness never Norman nouns Nouns ending o'er participle peace pepper-vine persons piece preceded prefixes prep Price Prince pron reign river roar root Saxon scarcely Scotland ship side silver soldiers Sophia of Hanover sound Strongly bound suffixes syllable tell termed thee thou truth unto verbs vessel vowel vowel-sound weight whole wicked wild William William the Norman wind wood Words pronounced
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Page 157 - Words of one syllable or words accented on the last syllable, ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant when adding a suffix beginning with a vowel.
Page 50 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Page 99 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow!
Page 56 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Page 117 - Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen ; Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host, on the morrow, lay withered and strown.
Page 137 - All words of more than one syllable ending in a single consonant, preceded by a single vowel, and accented on the last syllable, double that consonant in derivatives : as, commit, committee ; compel, compelled; appal, appalling; distil, distiller.
Page 78 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 43 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Page 90 - For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Page 90 - Among bridesmen and kinsmen, and brothers and all: Then spoke the bride's father, his hand on his sword, (For the poor craven bridegroom said never a word), " O, come ye in peace here or come ye in war, Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar...