expressing ideas implying some condition, either expressed or
understood.

EXAMPLES.

1. You, a beardless youth, pretend to teach a British general.

2. What! shear a wolf? a prowling wolf?

3. My father's trade? ah, really, that's too bad!
My father's trade? Why, blockhead, are you mad?
My father, sir, did never stoop so low,--
He was a gentleman, I'd have you know.

4. What! confer a crown on the author of the public calamities?

5. But you are very wise men, and deeply learned in the truth; we are
weak, contemptible, mean persons.

6. They pretend they come to improve our state, enlarge our thoughts,
and free us from error.

7. But youth, it seems, is not my only crime; I have been accused of
acting a theatrical part.

8. And this man has become a god and Cassius a wretched creature.