ch is now being done."--_Beck's Gram._, p. 13. "A new church, called the
Pantheon, is just being completed in an expensive style."--_G. A.
Thompson's Guatemala_, p. 467. "When I last saw him, he was grown
considerably."--_Murray's Key_, p. 223; _Merchants_, 198. "I know what a
rugged and dangerous path I am got into."--_Duncan's Cicero_, p. 83. "You
were as good preach case to one on the rack."--_Locke's Essay_, p. 285.
"Thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation."--_Psal._, cxviii, 21.
"While the Elementary Spelling-Book was being prepared for the press."--_L.
Cobb's Review_, p. vi. "Language is become, in modern times, more correct
and accurate."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 16. "If the plan have been executed
in any measure answerable to the author's wishes."--_Robbins's Hist._, p.
3. "The vial of wrath is still being poured out on the seat of the
beast."--_Christian Experience_, p. 409. "Christianity was become the
generally adopted and established religion of the whole Roman
Empire."--_Gurney's Essays_, p. 35. "Who wrote before the first century was
elapsed."--_Ib._, p. 13. "The original and analogical form is grown quite
obsolete."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 56. "Their love, and their hatred, and
their envy, are perished."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 149. "The poems were got
abroad and in a great many hands."--_Pref. to Waller_. "It is more
harmonious, as well as more correct, to say, 'the bubble is almost
bursted.'"--_Cobbett's E. Gram._, 109. "I drave my suitor from his mad
humour of love."--_Shak_. "Se viriliter expedivit. (_Cicero_.) He hath
plaid the man."--_Walker's Particles_, p. 214. "Wilt thou kill me, as thou
diddest the Egyptian yesterday."--FRIENDS' BIBLE: _Acts_, vii, 28. "And we,
methoughts, look'd up t'him from our hill."--_Cowley's Davideis_, B. iii,
l. 386. "I fear thou doest not think as much of best things as thou
oughtest."--_Memoir of M. C. Thomas_, p. 34. "When this work was being
commenced."--_Wright's Gram._, p. 10. "Exercises and Key to this work are
being prepared."--_Ib._, p. 12. "James is loved, or being loved by
John."--_Ib._, p. 64. "Or that which is being exhibited."--_Ib._, p. 77.
"He was being smitten."--_Ib._, p. 78. "In the passive state we say, 'I am
being loved.'"--_Ib._, p. 80. "Subjunctive Mood: If I am being smitten, If
thou art being smitten, If he is being smitten."--_Ib._, p. 100. "I will
not be able to convince you how superficial the reformation
is."--_Chalmers's Sermons_, p. 88. "I
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