intellectual _fancy_? 2. How does a _conceit_ differ from
a _fancy_? a _conception_ from both? 3. What is an emotional or personal
_fancy_? 4. What is _fancy_ as a faculty of the mind?
EXAMPLES.
Tell me where is ---- bred;
Or in the heart or in the head?
Elizabeth united the occasional ---- of her sex with that sense and
sound policy in which neither man nor woman ever excelled her.
That fellow seems to me to possess but one ----, and that is a wrong
one.
If she were to take a ---- to anybody in the house, she would soon
settle, but not till then.
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FAREWELL (page 168).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what language do _farewell_ and _good-by_ belong etymologically?
How do they differ? 2. From what language have _adieu_ and _conge_ been
adopted into English? 3. What is the special significance of _conge_? 4.
What are _valediction_ and _valedictory_?
EXAMPLES.
---- my paper's out so nearly
I've only room for yours sincerely.
The train from out the castle drew,
But Marmion stopped to bid ----.
----! a word that must be, and hath been--
A sound which makes us linger;--yet------.
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FEAR (page 168).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the generic term of this group? 2. What is _fear_? Is it
sudden or lingering? In view of what class of dangers? 3. What is the
etymological meaning of _horror_? What does the word signify in accepted
usage? 4. What are the characteristics of _affright_, _fright_, and
_terror_? 5. How is _fear_ contrasted with _fright_ and _terror_ in
actual or possible effects? 6. What is _panic_? What of the numbers
affected by it? 7. What is _dismay_? How does it compare with _fright_
and _terror_?
EXAMPLES.
Even the bravest men may be swept along in a sudden ----.
With much more ----
I view the fight than thou that mak'st the fray.
Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint
In triumph wear his Christ-like chain;
No ---- lest he should swerve or faint.
The ghastly spectacle filled every beholder with ----.
A lingering ---- crept upon him as he waited in the darkness.
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FEMININE (page 169).
QUESTIONS.
1. How are _female_ and _feminine_ discriminated? 2. What is the
difference between a _female_ voice and a _feminine_ voice? 3. How are
_womanly_ and _woma
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