nish_ discriminated in use?

EXAMPLES.

Notice, too, how precious are these ---- qualities in the sick room.

The demand for closet-room is no mere ---- fancy, but the good sense
of the sex.

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FETTER (page 169).

QUESTIONS.

1. What are _fetters_ in the primary sense? 2. What are _manacles_ and
_handcuffs_ designed to fasten or hold? _gyves_? 3. What are _shackles_
and what are they intended to fasten or hold? 4. Of what material are
all these restraining devices commonly composed? By what general name
are they popularly known? 5. What are _bonds_ and of what material
composed? 6. Which of these words are used in the metaphorical sense?

EXAMPLES.

But first set my poor heart free,
Bound in those icy ---- by thee.

Slaves can not breathe in England
. . .
They touch our country, and their ---- fall.

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FEUD (page 170).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a _feud_? Of what is it used? 2. Is a _quarrel_ in word or
act? _contention_? _strife_? _contest_? 3. How does _quarrel_ compare in
importance with the other words cited? 4. What does an _affray_ always
involve? To what may a _brawl_ or _broil_ be confined? 5. How do these
words compare in dignity with _contention_, _contest_, _controversy_,
and _dissension_?

EXAMPLES.

Could we forbear ---- and practise love
We should agree as angels do above.

"Between my house and yours," he answered,
"There is a ---- of five hundred years."

Beware of entrance to a ----.

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FICTION (page 170).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a _fiction_ in the most common modern meaning of the word? 2.
How does a _fiction_ differ from a _novel_? from a _fable_? from a
_myth_? 3. How does a _myth_ differ from a _legend_? 4. How do
_falsehood_ and _fabrication_ differ from the words above mentioned? 5.
Is _fabrication_ or _falsehood_ the more odious term? Which term is
really the stronger? 6. What is a _story_? Is it good or bad, true or
false? With what words of the group does it agree?

EXAMPLES.

O scenes surpassing ----, and yet true,
Scenes of accomplished bliss.

A ---- strange is told of thee.

I believe the whole account from beginning to end to be a pure ----.

A thing sustained by such substantial evidence could not be a mere
---- of the imagin