Lessons in LanguageJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1898 - 216 pages |
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adverb auxiliary verbs beautiful birds clause complement complete subject complex sentence compound sentence conjunction Daniel Webster declarative sentence denotes DICTATION EXERCISE EXAMPLES exclamatory sentence expresses a thought farmer father Fill each blank find a word flowers following outline following sentences following words girl Give three illustrations glimpse of dawn grade grammar grocer group of words horse incomplete verb infinitive IRREGULAR VERBS John kind lady LESSON Mary MEMORY GEM modifies the meaning morning mother nest object orally outline in writing past participle person or thing personal pronoun phrase Pick pleasant plural poem possessive preposition quotation related words relative pronouns require the pupils second sentence sing singular number speaking speech spoken stanza TEACHER tence there's third sentence three in sentences three sentences transitive verb tree verbal noun walk wind WORD STUDY words is called writing a composition
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Page 209 - The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Page 210 - Toiling, — rejoicing, — sorrowing, Onward through life he goes; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought...
Page 212 - The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.
Page 210 - It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise! He needs must think of her once more How in the grave she lies; And with his hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes.
Page 141 - No man is born into the world, whose work Is not born with him; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil!
Page 212 - To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.
Page 130 - O mists, make room for me." It hailed the ships, and cried, " Sail on, Ye mariners, the night is gone." And hurried landward far away, Crying, " Awake ! it is the day." It said unto the forest, " Shout ! Hang all your leafy banners out ! " It touched the wood-bird's folded wing, And said,
Page 214 - There's freedom at thy gates and rest For Earth's down-trodden and opprest, A shelter for the hunted head, For the starved laborer toil and bread. Power, at thy bounds, Stops and calls back his baffled hounds.
Page 210 - And children coming home from school Look in at the open door...
Page 213 - OH MOTHER OF A MIGHTY RACE" OH mother of a mighty race, Yet lovely in thy youthful grace ! The elder dames, thy haughty peers, Admire and hate thy blooming years. With words of shame And taunts of scorn they join thy name.