Although this sentence from Genesis is sublime in its simplicity, we are not to conclude that simple sentences are uniformly the best, or that a style composed of propositions briefly expressed would obey a wise Economy.

A simple sentence is sometimes a whole period, sometimes a chief member, sometimes a half member, sometimes a segment, and sometimes perhaps even less.

What a nut this last sentence would be for Blackwood!

" So briefly and baldly Burke stated the case, and every sentence he uttered was a separate thrust in the heart of the white-faced girl who sat her horse beside him, quite motionless, with burning eyes fixed upon the miserable little hovel that had enshrined the idol she had worshipped for so long.

And the companion sentence is this,"Thy justice to the strangers shall be the best security to thine own household.

[70] Yet this short sentence, as I have before suggested, is a fourfold solecism.

Every loose sentence is a killing dart.

Sentences: Closing his eyes as if to listen better to the was a little of his.

"And my sentence, then, is solitary confinement?"

For example, to a person who is not familiar with commercial slang, this sentence from the market columns of a newspaper is a puzzle: "Java coffees are dull and easy, though they are statistically strong.

" The sentence was a studied challenge.

"Yes." "For how long a term?" "The sentence was twenty years.

Sentences should be indeterminate, but the indeterminate sentence of today is often a menace to freedom and a means of great cruelty and wrong.

The two little sentences with which she dismissed him were his sole concern; they were the keys to the whole of this correspondence which had beguiled him.

Perhaps the following sentence from the satire of a notorious wit in Elizabeth's reign, is a fair specimen of those expressive words which paint, the object of which they speak:"To which place, Gabriel came, ruffling it out, hufty-tufty, in his new suit of velvet."

A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought.

[Footnote 28: The following sentence: "For these reasons, then, he had both united them and won them over" is probably an explanatory insertion, made by some copyist.

"A sentence of thirty years in the penitentiary is a big price for a young man to pay for being a fool, Miss Andrés.

The shortest sentences are not necessarily the clearest.

Immediate sentence and death is all the grace I beg."

They made it up to terrify the colonel" A look from the man stopped her; but the broken sentence was to me a volume.

9.The following sentence is a literal imitation of the Latin accusative before the infinitive, and for that reason it is not good English: "But experience teacheth us, both these opinions to be alike ridiculous.

"Sentences are of a twofold nature: Simple and Compound.

It was not that she had expected her one little phrase about Wayne's hands to change her daughter's love into repugnance,that sentence had been only the first drop in a distillation that would do its poisonous work gradually,but she had supposed that Mathilde would be too sensitive to expose Pete to further criticism.

Every second sentence there was some outrageous offence against good taste; every third statement was absurd, or overdrawn, or almost profane.