An English Grammar by J. W. (James Witt) Sewell;W. M. (William Malone) Baskervill
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The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance
that would _those_ looks reprove.--GOLDSMITH. These were thy charms...but all _these_ charms are fled.--_Id._ About _this_ time I met with an odd volume of the "Spectator."--B. FRANKLIN. _Yonder_ proud ships are not means of annoyance to you.--D. WEBSTER. _Yon_ cloud with _that_ long purple cleft.--WORDSWORTH. I chose for the students of Kensington two characteristic examples of early art, of equal skill; but in _the one_ case, skill which was progressive--in _the other_, skill which was at pause.--RUSKIN. Exercise.--Find sentences with five demonstrative adjectives. [Sidenote: _Ordinal numerals classed under demonstratives._] 147. The class of numerals known as ordinals must be placed here, as having the same function as demonstrative adjectives. They point out which thing is meant among a series of things mentioned. The following are examples:-- The _first_ regular provincial newspapers appear to have been created in the last decade of the _seventeenth_ century, and by |
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