An English Grammar by J. W. (James Witt) Sewell;W. M. (William Malone) Baskervill
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2. The judge ... bought up all the pigs _that_ could be
had.--LAMB 3. Nature and books belong to the eyes _that_ see them.--EMERSON. 4. For the sake of country a man is told to yield everything _that_ makes the land honorable.--H.W. BEECHER 5. Reader, _that_ do not pretend to have leisure for very much scholarship, you will not be angry with me for telling you.--DE QUINCEY. 6. The Tree Igdrasil, _that_ has its roots down in the kingdoms of Hela and Death, and whose boughs overspread the highest heaven!--CARLYLE. [Sidenote: What.] 110. Examples of the use of the relative _what_:-- 1. Its net to entangle the enemy seems to be _what_ it chiefly trusts to, and _what_ it takes most pains to render as complete as possible.--GOLDSMITH. 2. For _what_ he sought below is passed above, Already done is all that he would do.--MARGARET FULLER. 3. Some of our readers may have seen in India a crowd of crows picking a sick vulture to death, no bad type of _what_ often happens in that country.--MACAULAY |
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