"--_Harris cor._ "To which we are many times
_helped_."--_W. Walker cor._ "But for him, I should have _looked_ well
enough to myself."--_Id._ "Why are you _vexed_, Lady? why do
frown?"--_Milton cor._ "Obtruding false rules _pranked_ in reason's
garb."--_Id._ "But, like David _equipped_ in Saul's armour, it is
encumbered and oppressed."--_Campbell cor._
"And when their merchants are blown up, and _cracked_,
Whole towns are cast away in storms, and _wrecked_."--_Butler cor._
LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.
"The lands are _held_ in free and common soccage."--_Trumbull cor._ "A
stroke is _drawn_ under such words."--_Cobbett's Gr._, 1st Ed. "It is
_struck_ even, with a strickle."--_W. Walker cor._ "Whilst I was
_wandering_, without any care, beyond my bounds."--_Id._ "When one would do
something, unless _hindered_ by something present."--_B. Johnson cor._ "It
is used potentially, but not so as to be _rendered_ by these signs."--_Id._
"Now who would dote upon things _hurried_ down the stream thus
fast?"--_Collier cor._ "Heaven hath timely _tried_ their growth."--_Milton
cor._ "O! ye mistook, ye should have _snatched_ his wand."--_Id._ "Of true
virgin here _distressed_."--_Id._ "So that they have at last come to be
_substituted_ in the stead of it."--_Barclay cor._ "Though ye have _lain_
among the pots."--_Bible cor._ "And, lo! in her mouth was an olive leaf
_plucked_ off."--_Scott's Bible, and Alger's_. "Brutus and Cassius _Have
ridden_, (or _rode_,) like madmen, through the gates of Rome."--_Shak.
cor._ "He shall be _spit upon_."--_Bible cor._ "And are not the countries
so _overflowed_ still _situated_ between the tropics?"--_Bentley_. "Not
_tricked_ and _frounced_ as she was wont, But _kerchiefed_ in a comely
cloud."--_Milton cor._ "To satisfy his rigour, _Satisfied_ never."--_Id._
"With him there _crucified_."--_Id._ "Th' earth cumbered, and the wing'd
air _darked_ with plumes."--_Id._ "And now their way to Earth they had
_descried_."--_Id._ "Not so thick swarmed once the soil _Bedropped_ with
blood of Gorgon."--_Id._ "And in a troubled sea of passion
_tossed_."--_Id._ "The cause, alas! is quickly _guessed_."--_Swift cor._
"The kettle to the top was _hoised_, or _hoisted_."--_Id._ "In chains thy
syllables are _linked_."--_Id._ "Rather than thus be _overtopped_, Would
you not wish their laurels _cropped_."--_Id._ "The HYPHEN, or CONJOINER, is
a little line _drawn_ to connect words, or parts of words."--_Cobbett co
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