e and ----.

No, no ----ing the vast wheel of time,
That round and round still turns with onward might.

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OLD (page 257).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _old_ signify? 2. How do _old_ and _ancient_ compare? 3.
What contrasted senses has _old_? 4. What is the special force of
_olden_? 5. In what sense are _gray_, _hoary_, and _olden_ used of
material objects? 6. To what is _aged_ chiefly applied? 7. To what do
_decrepit_, _gray_, and _hoary_ apply, as said of human beings? 8. To
what does _senile_ apply? 9. In what sense is _elderly_ used? 10. What
are the primary and derived meanings of _remote_? 11. What does
_venerable_ express?

EXAMPLES.

The hills,
Rock-ribbed and ---- as the sun,--the vales
Stretching in pensive quietness between;
The ---- woods, ...
... and, poured round all,
---- ocean's gray and melancholy waste,--
Are but the solemn decorations all
Of the great tomb of man.

Through the sequestered vale of rural life,
The ---- patriarch guileless held
The tenor of his way.

O good ---- head which all men knew!

Shall we, shall ---- men, like ---- trees,
Strike deeper their vile root, and closer cling,
Still more enamored of their wretched soil?

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OPERATION (page 258).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _operation_ denote? and by what kind of agent is it
effected? 2. What do _performance_ and _execution_ denote? and by what
kind of agents are they effected? 3. How does _performance_ differ from
_execution_?

EXAMPLES.

It requires a surgical ---- to get a joke well into a Scotch
understanding.

His promises were, as he then was, mighty;
But his ----, as he is now, nothing.

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ORDER (page 258).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _instruction_ imply? _direction_? 2. How does _order_
compare with _direction_? 3. To what classes of persons are _orders_
especially given? How does an _order_ in the commercial sense become
authoritative? 4. How does _command_ compare with _order_? 5. In what
sense is _requirement_ used? By what authority is a _requirement_ made?
6. In what sense is _prohibition_ used? _injunction_?

EXAMPLES.

General Sherman writes in his Memoirs, "I have never in my life
questioned or disobeyed an ----."

"Ye shall become like G