heartake_."--_Shak. cor._ "He that sleeps, feels not
the _toothache_:"--or, "_toothake_."--_Id._ "That the shoe must fit him,
because it fitted his father and _grandfather_."--_Phil. Museum cor._ "A
single word _misspelled_ [or _misspelt_] in a letter is sufficient to show
that you have received a defective education."--_C. Bucke cor._ "Which
_misstatement_ the committee attributed to a failure of
memory."--_Professors cor._ "Then he went through the _Banqueting-House_ to
the scaffold."--_Smollet cor._ "For the purpose of maintaining a clergyman
and _a schoolmaster_."--_Webster cor._ "They however knew that the lands
were claimed by _Pennsylvania_."--_Id._ "But if you ask a reason, they
immediately bid _farewell_ to argument."--_Barnes cor._ "Whom resist,
_steadfast_ in the faith."--_Alger's Bible_. "And they continued
_steadfastly_ in the apostles' doctrine."--_Id._ "Beware lest ye also fall
from your own _steadfastness_."--_Ib._ "_Galiot_, or _Galliot_, a Dutch
vessel carrying a main-mast and a _mizzen-mast_."--_Webster cor._
"Infinitive, to overflow; Preterit, overflowed; Participle,
_overflowed_."--_Cobbett cor._ "After they have _misspent_ so much precious
time."--_Brit. Gram. cor._ "Some say, 'two _handsful_;" some, 'two
_handfuls_; and others, 'two _handful_.' The second expression is
right."--_G. Brown_. "_Lapful_, as much as the lap can contain."--_Webster
cor._ "_Dareful_, full of defiance."--_Walker cor._ "The road to the
_blissful_ regions is as open to the peasant as to the king."--_Mur. cor._
"_Misspell_ is _misspelled_ [or _misspelt_] in every dictionary which I
have seen."--_Barnes cor._ "_Downfall_; ruin, calamity, fall from rank or
state."--_Johnson cor._ "The whole legislature _likewise_ acts _as_ a
court."--_Webster cor._ "It were better a _millstone_ were hanged about his
neck."--_Perkins cor._ "_Plumtree_, a tree that produces plums;
_Hogplumtree_, a tree."--_Webster cor._ "_Trissyllables_ ending in _re_ or
_le_, accent the first syllable."--_Murray cor._
"It happened on a summer's _holyday_,
That to the greenwood shade he took his way."--_Dryden_.
RULE XV.--USAGE.
"Nor are the _moods_ of the Greek tongue more uniform."--_Murray cor._ "If
we _analyze_ a conjunctive _preterit_, the rule will not appear to
hold."--_Priestley cor._ "No landholder would have been at that
_expense_."--_Id._ "I went to see the child whilst they were putting on its
_clothes_."--_Id._ "This _style_ is ostenta
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