The New Webster-Cooley Course in English ...Houghton Mifflin, 1909 On t.p. of Second book: By W.F. Webster and Alice Woodworth Cooley. |
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adjective adverb adverbial clause adverbial modifier Analyze the following Analyze the sentences appositive attribute complement beautiful birds called complete predicate complete subject COMPOSITION WRITING compound conjunctive pronoun copula declarative sentence denote elements EXERCISE EXERCISE II express five sentences flowers following sentences full verb Give group of words hidden horse incomplete verb independent clause indirect object infinitive interrogative intransitive kind lashing billows learned lesson in Composition letter MODEL modify the meaning night noun clause noun or pronoun objective complement omitted paragraph participle person or thing personal pronouns picture plural poem possessive predicate attribute prepositional phrase principal word punctuation Section sentences containing simple predicate simple subject sing singular Sir Launfal snow story tell tence thou thought tion tive transitive or intransitive transitive verb tree unmodified verb transitive verb-phrases William Henry Harrison Winfrid word that modifies words modify
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Página 216 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come!! I repeat it, sir, let it come!!! " It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Página 43 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free...
Página 236 - BREATHES there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Página 236 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, . ' Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Página 74 - So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow!
Página 84 - ANNOUNCED by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm-house 'at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.
Página 131 - My native country! thee, Land of the noble free, Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills, .Like that above.
Página 72 - Unwarmed by any sunset light The gray day darkened into night, — A night made hoary with the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and recrossed the winged snow: And ere the early bedtime came The white drift piled the window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts.
Página 71 - The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. Slow tracing down the thickening sky Its mute and ominous prophecy, A portent seeming less than threat, It sank from sight before it set. A chill no coat, however stout, Of homespun stuff could quite shut out, A hard, dull bitterness of cold, That checked, mid-vein, the circling race Of life-blood in the sharpened face, The coming of the snow-storm told. The wind blew...
Página 93 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.