Exercise 27.-Simple Sentences for Analysis. 1. Colt-like I ran through the meadows, frisking happy heels in the face of nature laughing responsive. 2. Out into the brimming sun-bathed world I sped, free of lessons, free of discipline and correction, for one day at least. 3. This little affair concluded with satisfaction to all parties concerned, we rambled along the road, picking up the defaulting Harold by the way, muffinless now and in his right and social mind. 4. This, our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 5. No one took any notice of Mowgli sitting among Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, 7. Mowgli had been trying to make himself heard by pulling at Bagheera's fur and kicking hard. 8. Harold gave one startled glance around, and then fled like a hare, made straight for the back door, burst in upon the servants at supper, and buried himself in the broad bosom of the cook, his special ally. 9. On returning to the house at the fated hour appointed for study, we were thunderstruck to see the station-cart disappearing down the drive, freighted with our new acquaintance. 10. Then the playthings began to have their own games together, to pay visits, to have sham fights and to give balls. 11. She was born in a tulip, and had half of a walnut shell for a cradle. 12. She wove herself a bed with blades of grass, and hung it up under a broad leaf, to protect herself from the rain. 13. The farmer, wrapped in warm clothing, sat in his sleigh, and beat his arms across his chest to keep off the cold. 14. Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll. 15. The grasshopper sprang right into the king's face, and caused him to say, "How very disagreeable!" 16. In the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas, Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand Lay in the fruitful valley. 17. Under the open sky, in the odorous air of the orchard, Stript of its golden fruit, was spread the feast of betrothal. 18. I entered and admired, for the hundredth time, that picture of convenience, neatness, and broad, honest enjoyment, the kitchen of an English inn. 19. I can see our house, with its lattice windows standing open to let in the sweet-smelling air, and the ragged old crows' nests still dangling in the elm trees at the bottom of the front garden. 20. Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight, 21. All the little boys and girls, And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls, The wonderful music, with shouting and laughter. 22. It was one of those spacious farm houses, with highridged but lowly-sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers, the low projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front capable of being closed up in bad weather. 23. Down the street with laughter and shout, Glad in the freedom of school let out, Come the boys. 24. Out of the bosom of the air, Out of the cloud-fold of her garments shaken, Over the harvest fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow, Descends the snow. 25. Half way down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely-peaked gables facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge clustered chimney in the midst. 26. Soon o'er the yellow fields, in silent and mournful procession, Came, from the neighboring hamlets and farms, the Driving in ponderous wains their household goods 27. The appearance of Rip, with his long, grizzled beard, his rusty fowling-piece, his uncouth dress, and an army of women and children at his heels, soon attracted the attention of the tavern politicians. 28. The world is probably not aware of the ingenuity, humor, good sense, and sly satire contained in many of the old English nursery tales. 29. The foremost of the three visitors, Squire Hawkwood, was a very pompous, but excellent old gentleman, the head and prime mover in all the affairs of the village, and universally acknowledged to be one of the sagest men on earth. 30. Among all the children of the neighborhood, the lady could remember no such face, with its pure white, and delicate rose-color, and the golden ringlets tossing about the forehead and cheeks. Exercise 28.-Compound Sentences for Analysis. (Use scheme on page 128, separating the different clauses by straight dotted lines.) 1. The earth stretched herself, smiling in her sleep; and everything leaped and pulsed to the stir of the giant's movement. 2. There was no label this time with the words' "Drink me;" nevertheless, she uncorked it, and put it to her lips. 3. Edward held but a low opinion of me as a counsellor; but he had a very solid respect for Ulysses. 4. In the bright moonlight, wind-swung branches tossed and swayed eerily across the blinds; there was rumbling in chimneys, whistling in key holes, and everywhere a clamor and a call. 5. I cannot speak to her, yet she urged confidence. 6. Will you give thanks, or else shall I? 7. I went at once; otherwise I should have missed him. 8. The pretty columbine was very kind to him, but for all that she preferred the harlequin for a husband. 9. The Sea King had been a widower for many years, and his old mother kept house for him in the palace at the bottom of the sea. 10. Anne Lisbeth was a beautiful young woman, with It must appear in other ways than words, 12. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other. 13. Next to seeing you is the pleasure of seeing your handwriting; next to hearing you is the pleasure of hearing from you. 14. It was the height of summer; yet it rained for more than twenty-four hours, and did not clear until the afternoon of the third day. 15. He did not think of looking for it there, nor had Martin the chance of telling him. 16. Thou desirest not sacrifice, else would I give it. 17. It does not disgrace a gentleman to become an errand boy, or a day laborer; but it does disgrace him to become a knave. 18. The match Was rich and honorable; besides the gentleman 19. This will he send or come for; furthermore, 20. Emotion is often weakened by association with thought, whereas thoughts are always strengthened by emotion. 21. In the daytime the child looked like its mother, but had the ugly disposition of its father, the marsh king; in the night it changed to a frog, but had the lovely disposition of the princess. |