Lessons in LanguageJ.B. Lippincott, 1898 - 216 páginas |
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adverb auxiliary verbs birds complement complete predicate complete subject complete the meaning complex sentence compound sentence copulative verb denoting DICTATION EXERCISE EXAMPLES expresses farmer father Fill each blank find a word flowers following outline following sentences following words girl Give three illustrations Give two illustrations glimpse of dawn grade grammar group of related group of words horse incomplete verb infinitive IRREGULAR VERBS James John kind lady LESSON Mary modify morning mother nest noun or pronoun object opposite meaning orally outline in writing past participle past tense person or thing personal pronoun Pick Plural poem possessive preposition principal quotation related words relative pronouns require the pupils second sentence sing singular number speech STANZA subordinate conjunction TEACHER tell tence third sentence Thou thought three in sentences three sentences transitive verb tree verbal noun WORD STUDY writing a composition
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Página 215 - The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Página 216 - Toiling, — rejoicing, — sorrowing, Onward through life he goes; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought...
Página 218 - The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.
Página 132 - It whispered to the fields of corn, "Bow down, and hail the coming morn." It shouted through the belfry-tower, "Awake, O bell! proclaim the hour." It crossed the churchyard with a sigh, And said, "Not yet! in quiet lie.
Página 216 - It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise! He needs must think of her once more How in the grave she lies; And with his hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes.
Página 143 - No man is born into the world, whose work Is not born with him; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil!
Página 218 - To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.
Página 132 - It hailed the ships, and cried, " Sail on, Ye mariners, the night is gone." And hurried landward far away, Crying, " Awake ! it is the day." It said unto the forest, " Shout ! Hang all your leafy banners out ! " It touched the wood-bird's folded wing, And said,
Página 216 - And children coming home from school Look in at the open door...
Página 220 - There's freedom at thy gates and rest For Earth's down-trodden and opprest, A shelter for the hunted head, For the starved laborer toil and bread. Power, at thy bounds, Stops and calls back his baffled hounds.