It would be so much more pleasant to live at his ease than to
work eight or ten hours _a day_.--BULWER

[Sidenote: _Compare to Sec. 184._]

Strong beer, such as we now buy for eighteenpence _a gallon_, was
then a penny _a gallon_.--FROUDE


[Sidenote: _With_ such, many, what.]

194. _An_ or _a_ is added to the adjectives _such_, _many_, and
_what_, and may be considered a part of these in modifying
substantives.

How was I to pay _such a_ debt?--THACKERAY.

_Many a_ one you and I have had here below.--THACKERAY.

_What a_ world of merriment then melody foretells!--POE.

[Sidenote: _With_ not _and_ many.]

195 LIST III.

A few of comparative form but not comparative meaning:--

After Over Under Nether.