r part of the island _under_ their own power."--
_Id._ "The principal accent distinguishes one syllable _of_ a word from the
rest."--_Id._ "Just numbers are in unison _with_ the human mind."--_Id._
"We must accept of sound _in stead_ of sense."--_Id._ "Also, _in stead of
consultation_, he uses _consult_."--_Priestley cor._ "This ablative seems
to be governed _by_ a preposition understood."--_W. Walker cor._ "_Lest_ my
father _hear of it_, by some means or other."--_Id._ "And, besides, my wife
would hear _of it_ by some means."--_Id._ "For insisting _on_ a requisition
so odious to them."--_Robertson cor._ "Based _on_ the great self-evident
truths of liberty and equality."--_Manual cor._ "Very little knowledge of
their nature is acquired _from_ the spelling-book."--_Murray cor._ "They do
not cut it off: except _from_ a few words; as, _due, duly_, &c."--_Id._
"Whether passing _at_ such time, or then finished."--_Lowth cor._ "It hath
disgusted hundreds _with_ that confession."--_Barclay cor._ "But they have
egregiously fallen _into_ that inconveniency."--_Id._ "For is not this, to
set nature _at_ work?"--_Id._ "And, surely, that which should set all its
springs _at_ work, is God."--_Atterbury cor._ "He could not end his
treatise without a panegyrie _on_ modern learning."--_Temple cor._ "These
are entirely independent _of_ the modulation of the voice."--_J. Walker
cor._ "It is dear _at_ a penny. It is cheap _at_ twenty pounds."--_W.
Walker cor._ "It will be despatched, _on_ most occasions, without
resting."--_Locke cor._ "_Oh_ the pain, the bliss of dying!"--_Pope_. "When
the objects or the facts are presented _to him_."--_R. C. Smith cor._ "I
will now present you a synopsis."--_Id._ "The disjunctive conjunction
connects _words or_ sentences, _and suggests an_ opposition of meaning,
_more or less direct_."--_Id._ "I shall now present _to_ you a few
lines."--_Bucke cor._ "Common names, _or_ substantives, are those which
stand for things _assorted_."--_Id._ "Adjectives, in the English language,
_are not varied by_ genders, numbers, or cases; _their only inflection is
for_ the degrees of comparison."--_Id._ "Participles are [little more than]
adjectives formed _from_ verbs."--_Id._ "I do love to walk out _on_ a fine
_summer_ evening."--_Id._ "_Ellipsis_, when applied to grammar, is the
elegant omission of one or more words _of_ a sentence."--_Merchant cor._
"The _preposition to_ is generally _required_ before verbs in the
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