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97. The women themselves came forward, to a man, in support of the Union.

98.

And, as from thence she flows,

She takes into her train, rich Dove and Darwin

clear.-Drayton.

99. "Shot are steady at Sc. for drop; 8c. for buck; and 9c. for bullets."

100. We take no note of time but from its loss.— Young. 101. In short, from top to bottom, from cellar to garret, the whole house was in inextricable confusion.

102. The boy is good for nothing else but to set to learning.-R. Ascham.

103. He offered to engage as teacher.

104. We cannot afford, as patriots, to run that risk. 105. I can not see to read.

106. Such a principle ought never to have been lost sight of.

107. To know her was to love her.

108. Knives are made to eat with.

109. She has nothing else to do but to die ;-" to die," a substantive phrase, subsequent of "but ;"-"but to die," a phrase adjunct of "else."

110. Heaven was to be earned, only by penance and mortification.-Adam Smith.

111. "It will do her good to let her pine a little." 112. He moved to insert instead thereof, the following. 113. I stand in pause where I shall first begin.-Shakespeare.

114. One of the main-top-gallant shrouds had parted, and, to crown all, the galley had got adrift.-Dana.

115. He passed one of his heavy hands over his face, as if to sweep the broken thoughts out of his mind.-Dickens ;-" as if," a double conjunction, giving a secondary connection between the phrase and the antecedent term.

116. I should even die with pity to see another thus.— Shakespeare.

117. To be plain with you, he is, to my mind, the very impersonation of official incompetence.

118. It is a street of perishing blind houses, with their eyes stoned out.-Dickens.

119. "The river is echoing sigh for sigh."-Proctor. 120. If it were to rain pupils, perhaps I might catch a tubful.-Cowper.

121. Some feelings are to mortals given,

With less of earth in them than heaven.--Scott. 122. "He may also be said to have flourished there." 123. He was among the few alike excellent, whether in speaking or in writing.-Wm. Sullivan.

124. It could not have cost more than from eighty to ninety thousand dollars.

125. No! It is one thing to break or shatter an organization, and a very different thing to restore it.-Bushnell.

126. Are not your orders to address the Senate ?-Addison.

127. So it stands, not as any report of consciousness, but simply as a must-be of the logical understanding.— Bushnell.

128. Count it the more one of the highest virtues upon earth, to educate faithfully the children of others, for that so few give any proper heed to the educating of their

own.

129. Ye should have seen the men-at-arms dash in among them.—-Ld. Berners.

130. This house is to be let for life or years.-Quarles. 131. The language is to be understood in a secondary, tropical sense.--Bushnell.

132. Sir, I am against any such provision.-Randolph.

133. For us to abolish what he hath established, were presumption most intolerable.-Hooker.

134. You wish to know how he was dressed, how he stood, and how he looked.--Wm. Austin.

135. It like to have blown my hat off.-Sheridan. 136. To be wroth with one we love,

Doth work like madness in the brain.--Coleridge. 137. It behooves us to see that we do not, in using such a term, slide into a false philosophy.-Bushnell.

138. The corpse was lying half in, half out of the water.-Scott.

139. But, to argue in detail, is only enfeebling the subject itself.-Choate.

140. Ask him to be so kind as to leave out word what has been done in my business.--Dickens.

141. A transmission is made, materially, from some parts, and, ideally, from every one.-Brown.

142. The effect was awful, except when he wished to cheer or animate.-Butler.

143. The gentleman seems to forget where and what we are.-Webster.

144. Join, all ye creatures, to extol

Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.

-Milton.

145. I will rather carry my blanket about me like a wild Indian, than submit to this abominable custom.Coleridge.

146. He aspired to be the highest above the people; above the authorities; above the laws; above his country.--Knowles.

147. He sent to request Lord Cutts to attack Blenheim in front.-Alison.

148. Now, gentlemen, "to your posts," said he.—Alison. 149. To do the red-nosed man justice, he would have

been far from wise, if he had entertained any such idea.Dickens.

150. Of the essence, or primal force, or fount of light, we know nothing.-Tayler Lewis.

151. Our great, in truth our sole business here, is to do duty.-Dr. Alden.

152. The reply is, we see them to be right.-Dr. Alden. 153. It was nothing but "haul down and clew up," until we got all the studding-sails in.—Dana.

154. In short, there is no end to his promising, as there is, in fact, none to his failures in fulfilling.

155. The best way in the world for a man to seem to be anything, is really to be what he would seem to be.Tillotson.

156. Truth crushed to earth will rise again.-Bryant. 157. Scaling yonder peak, I saw an eagle wheeling near its brow.-Knowles.

158. You will oblige me by recommending me.-Cowper. 159. In undertaking it, there is little doubt as to which party must be the loser.

160. Her husband coming home, and not having great love for her, accused her of the murder.—Latimer.

161. The soul, though made in time, survives for aye.Sir J. Davis;-“ though,” an adversative conjunction, giving double connection to the phrase.

162. "I busied myself in crossing my t's."

163. More impenetrable than ever, he sits and drinks and swallows, as it were in secresy.—Dickens ;—the participle in the first phrase suppressed.

164. They usually give notice by gathering up black in the horizon. Kedge Anchor.

165. They thus set men a-longing for the days of four per cent.-Locke.

166. My being here is accidental.-Longfellow.

167.

Even the great one comes in terror

To me, apparelled like the fiery storm.-Proctor. 168. As to knowledge, I do not think it can with propriety be contrasted with judgment.—Stewart.

169. They make the dark and dreary hours

Open and blossom into flowers.-Longfellow.

170. His censure will (to use the new diplomatic term) accredit his praises.--Cowper.

171. I hear the silver rain

Beating on the western pane.-Proctor.

172. Let us prevent his anger by sentencing ourselves.— Bp. Taylor.

173. We have neither the knack of persuading ourselves so readily, nor the humor of sticking to a fashion so obstinately.-Warburton.

174. It has been like a fiery sword, going up and down among the nations, searching, separating, startling.— Bayne.

175. This having said, she left me all in tears,

And minding much to speak.-Surrey.

176. But thinking of going was one thing; and going was another.-S. I. Prime.

177. It is like discovering a hidden spring in an old jewel.-Willis.

178. Prohibition extends to all injustice, whether done by force or fraud.-Bp. Taylor.

179.

What's banished, but set free

From daily contact with the things I loathe.-Croly. 180. The world deceives us on one side; our imagination on another; our passions on all. — Alison.

181. How has expectation darkened into anxiety; anxiety into dread; and dread into despair.—Irving.

182. They fell to jingling most musically.-Hans Andersen.-(Fairy Tales.)

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