Practical Grammar, Based Upon the Text of Longfellow's "Evangeline" and a Selection from Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico,"Lothrop Publishing Company, 1903 - 361 pages |
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... tell the one or two most vital things without troubling to mention a number of unimportant details . 5. COMPOSITION WORK . The Composition Outlines ( Part V ) are to be used throughout the year in whatever way the teacher deems best ...
... tell the one or two most vital things without troubling to mention a number of unimportant details . 5. COMPOSITION WORK . The Composition Outlines ( Part V ) are to be used throughout the year in whatever way the teacher deems best ...
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... Tell what you see . Away to the north it is quite different . mountains and the tall , dark forests ? ness away at the top of the mountain ? Do you see the What is that white- Open your eyes and read the text again , trying to remember ...
... Tell what you see . Away to the north it is quite different . mountains and the tall , dark forests ? ness away at the top of the mountain ? Do you see the What is that white- Open your eyes and read the text again , trying to remember ...
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... Tell the meaning of the following words : dormer - windows , gables , vanes , matrons , kirtles , distaffs , parish , reverend . 4. Why are the looms called " gossiping " ? 5. What sort of man do you imagine the priest was ? 6. Can you ...
... Tell the meaning of the following words : dormer - windows , gables , vanes , matrons , kirtles , distaffs , parish , reverend . 4. Why are the looms called " gossiping " ? 5. What sort of man do you imagine the priest was ? 6. Can you ...
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... tell your history . ( Who in the class can make the most interesting story con- sistent with the real history of the Acadians ? ) 5. Explain the last line . PRONOUNS Certain words called pronouns are used to avoid too fre- quent ...
... tell your history . ( Who in the class can make the most interesting story con- sistent with the real history of the Acadians ? ) 5. Explain the last line . PRONOUNS Certain words called pronouns are used to avoid too fre- quent ...
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... telling us what kind of a valley it is . ( Gram- mar : 6. ) Not only may a noun be modified by an adjective , but it may also be modified by another noun , which is joined to it by means of a connecting word called a preposition . In ...
... telling us what kind of a valley it is . ( Gram- mar : 6. ) Not only may a noun be modified by an adjective , but it may also be modified by another noun , which is joined to it by means of a connecting word called a preposition . In ...
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Acadian adjective elements adverbial element aloft antecedent Aztec barns beautiful beheld Benedict blacksmith called chinampas clause compound conditional sentence conjunctive adverb Cortés dependent clause dike emperor Evangeline Evangeline's Exercise express eyes factitive Father Felician flowers forest forget Gabriel garden gender gerunds Give the construction Give the meaning gleamed golden Grammar hand heard heart herdsman Imperative Mood Indian infinitive interrogative intransitive Iztapalapan lake Lake Chalco land light maiden meadows modify monarch Montezuma mood night notary noun and pronoun noun or pronoun o'er object orchards palace passive participle passive voice PAST TENSE PERFECT TENSE plural prairies predicate prepositional phrase PRESENT TENSE priest relative pronoun river rose sang sentence shore silent SINGULAR sorrow sound Spaniards Spanish stone stood story subjunctive Subjunctive Mood substantive Tell things Thou thought transitive verb trees verb verb-phrase verbal village of Grand-Pré voice wandered words
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Page 3 - This is the forest primeval; But where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe, When he hears in the woodland The voice of the huntsman?
Page 17 - But a celestial brightness — a more ethereal beauty — Shone on her face and encircled her form, when, after confession, Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her. When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Page 7 - West and south there were fields of flax, and orchards and cornfields Spreading afar and unfenced o'er the plain; and away to the northward Blomidon rose, and the forests old, and aloft on the mountains Sea-fogs pitched their tents, and mists from the mighty Atlantic Looked on the happy valley, but ne'er from their station descended.
Page 17 - Fairer was she when, on Sunday morn, while the bell from its turret Sprinkled with holy sounds the air, as the priest with his hyssop . Sprinkles the congregation, and scatters blessings upon them...
Page 301 - And with them the being beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine ; And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 182 - Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terrible anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows. On the pallet before her was stretched the form of an old man. Long, and thin, and gray were the locks that shaded his temples...
Page 183 - All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow, All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience ! And, as she pressed once more the lifeless head to her bosom, Meekly she bowed her own, and murmured,
Page 9 - Over the basement below protected and shaded the doorway. There, in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly the sunset Lighted the village street, and gilded the vanes on the chimneys, Matrons and maidens sat in snow-white caps and in kirtles Scarlet and blue and green, with distaffs spinning the golden Flax for the gossiping looms, whose noisy shuttles within doors Mingled their sound with the whir of the wheels and the songs of the maidens.
Page 112 - Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted ; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment ; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Page 118 - Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.