or the other.'"--_Id._ "A noun of multitude may have a pronoun
or _a_ verb agreeing with it, either of the singular number or _of the_
plural."--_Bucke cor._ "_The principal_ copulative conjunctions are, _and,
as, both, because, for, if, that, then, since_."--_Id._ "The two real
genders are the masculine and _the_ feminine."--_Id._ "In which a mute and
_a_ liquid are represented by the same character, _th_."--_Gardiner cor._
"They said, John _the_ Baptist hath sent us unto thee."--_Bible cor._ "They
indeed remember the names of _an_ abundance of places."--_Spect. cor._
"Which created a great dispute between the young and _the_ old
men."--_Goldsmith cor._ "Then shall be read the Apostles' or _the_ Nicene
Creed."--_Com. Prayer cor._ "The rules concerning the perfect tenses and
_the_ supines of verbs are Lily's."--_K. Henry's Gr. cor._ "It was read by
the high and the low, the learned and _the_ illiterate."--_Dr. Johnson
cor._ "Most commonly, both the pronoun and _the_ verb are
understood."--_Buchanan cor._ "To signify the thick and _the_ slender
enunciation of tone."--_Knight cor._ "The difference between a palatial and
_a_ guttural aspirate is very small."--_Id._ "Leaving it to waver between
the figurative and _the_ literal sense."--_Jamieson cor._ "Whatever verb
will not admit of both an active and _a_ passive signification."--_Alex.
Murray cor._ "_The_ is often set before adverbs in the comparative or _the_
superlative degree."--_Id. and Kirkham cor._ "Lest any should fear the
effect of such a change, upon the present or _the_ succeeding age of
writers."--_Fowle cor._ "In all these measures, the accents are to be
placed on _the_ even syllables; and every line is, in general, _the_ more
melodious, as this rule is _the_ more strictly observed."--_L. Murray et
al. cor._ "How many numbers do nouns appear to have? Two: the singular and
_the_ plural."--_R. C. Smith cor._ "How many persons? Three; the first,
_the_ second, and _the_ third."--_Id._ "How many cases? Three; the
nominative, _the_ possessive, and _the_ objective."--_Id._

"Ah! what avails it me, the flocks to keep,
Who lost my heart while I preserv'd _the_ sheep:"--or, "_my_ sheep."

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"The negroes are all _descendants_ of Africans."--_Morse cor._ "_Sybarite_
was applied as a term of reproach to a man of dissolute manners."--_Id._
"The original signification of _knave_ was _boy_."--_Webster cor._ "The
meaning of these will be