c: as, "A _parenthesis_, or brackets, _consists_ of two angular
strokes, or hooks, enclosing one or more words."--_Whiting's Reader_, p.
28. "To show us that our own _schemes_, or prudence, _have_ no share in our
advancements."--_Addison_. "The Mexican _figures_, or picture-writing,
_represent_ things, not words; _they_ exhibit images to the eye, not ideas
to the understanding."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 243; _English Reader_, p.
xiii. "At Travancore, _Koprah_, or dried cocoa-nut kernels, _is_
monopolized by government."--_Maunder's Gram._, p. 12. "The _Scriptures_,
or Bible, _are_ the only authentic source."--_Bp. Tomline's Evidences_.

"Nor foes nor fortune _take_ this power away;
And is my Abelard less kind than _they_?"--_Pope_, p. 334.

OBS. 10.--The English adjective being indeclinable, we have no examples of
some of the forms of zeugma which occur in Latin and Greek. But adjectives
differing in _number_, are sometimes connected without a repetition of the
noun; and, in the agreement of the verb, the noun which is understood, is
less apt to be regarded than that which is expressed, though the latter be
more remote; as, "There _are one or two_ small _irregularities_ to be
noted."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 63. "There _are one or two persons_, and but
one or two."--_Hazlitt's Lectures_. "There _are one or two_
others."--_Crombie's Treatise_, p. 206. "There _are one or two_."--_Blair's
Rhet._, p. 319. "There _are one or more_ seminaries in every
province."--_H. E. Dwight: Lit. Conv._, p. 133. "Whether _one or more_ of
the clauses _are_ to be considered the nominative case."--_Murray's Gram._,
Vol. i, p. 150. "So that, I believe, there _is_ not _more_ than _one_
genuine example extant."--_Knight, on the Greek Alphabet_, p. 10. "There
_is_, properly, no _more_ than _one_ pause or rest in the
sentence."--_Murray's Gram._, Vol. i, p. 329; _Blair's Rhet._, p. 125.
"Sometimes a small _letter or two is_ added to the capital."--_Adam's Lat.
Gram._, p. 223; _Gould's_, 283. Among the examples in the seventh paragraph
above, there is one like this last, but with a plural verb; and if either
is objectionable, _is_ should here be _are_. The preceding example, too, is
such as I would not imitate. To L. Murray, the following sentence seemed
false syntax, because _one_ does not agree with _persons_: "He saw _one or
more persons_ enter the garden."--_Murray's Exercises_, Rule 8th, p. 54. In
his Key, he has it thus: "He saw one _person_,