_Your_ mere puny stripling, that winced at the least flourish of
the rod, was passed by with indulgence.--IRVING

To empty here, _you_ must condense there.--EMERSON.

The peasants take off their hats as _you_ pass; _you_ sneeze, and
they cry, "God bless you!" The thrifty housewife shows _you_ into
her best chamber. _You_ have oaten cakes baked some months
before.--LONGFELLOW


[Sidenote: _Uses of_ it.]

92. The pronoun _it_ has a number of uses:--

(1) _To refer to some single word preceding_; as,--

Ferdinand ordered the _army_ to recommence _its_ march.--BULWER.

_Society_, in this century, has not made _its_ progress, like
Chinese skill, by a greater acuteness of ingenuity in
trifles.--D. WEBSTER.

(2) _To refer to a preceding word group_; thus,--

If any man should do wrong merely out of ill nature, why, yet
_it_ is but like the thorn or brier, which prick and scratch
because they can do no other.--BACON.