Language usage test, form A. By George K. Bennett, H. G. Seashore & A. G. Wesman.

Common usage dictionary: French English, English French.

A similar usage prevails at an Indian wedding, where, "after the first night, the mother of the husband, with all the female relatives, comes to the young bride and places on her head a measure of cornemblem of fertility.

Question Nettuno as you will, or turn the affair in every way that usage warrants, and let appearances take what shape they may, I swear to you my innocence.

This poor lady has evidently very little usage du monde.

As established usage points out the duty of both parties, therefore notification is considered unnecessary.

Whether learned words of this kind, and classical names such as Cæsar, Æschylus, &c., should be spelt with vowels ligatured or divided (Caesar, Aeschylus), is a point about which present usage varies; and that usage does not always represent the taste of the writers who employ it.

Of the living, conventional usage forbids all mention, but I have deemed it right to reproduce as appendices to this skeleton and imperfect memoir the notices that appeared in the principal Indian papers of William McNair's death, as also the obituary notices taken from the proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society for October and November, 1889.

BOSWELL. 'When a man is the aggressor, and by ill-usage forces on a duel in which he is killed, have we not little ground to hope that he is gone into a state of happiness?' JOHNSON. '

The last-named usage forms an exception to the rule; in the other two the noun is understood, and should be supplied by the parser.

" Note that the date is March 6, 1474, according to Florentine usage ab incarnatione, and according to the Roman usage, a nativitate, it is 1475.

MARGARET Our land doth no such usage know.

This respect for traditional usage admits of almost endless illustration.

Dix mille guinées partiront demain par un homme de confiance pour le Yorkshire, et c'est pour notre usage qu'elles partent."

And bad usage poisons it.

At Beziers another usage prevailedthat of attacking the Jews' houses with stones, from Palm Sunday to Easter.

In such a case, non persuadebis, etiamsi persuaseris; although you stop his mouth, you cannot subdue his heart; although he can no longer fight, yet he never will yield: animosity raised by such usage rendereth him invincibly obstinate in his conceits and courses.

words, not to be needlessly broken two or more, not to be split when to be written with hyphen; when without it Compounding of words, unsettled usage respecting; manner of, in Lat. and Gr.; arbitrary practice of, in Eng., its effect does not necessarily preclude their separate use propriety of, sometimes difficult to decide Compounds, orthog.

And so the term "port," which in naval usage supersedes "larboard," is the abbreviated porta lo timone, (carry the helm,) which, like the same term in military usage, "port arms," seems traditionally to suggest the left hand.

Cet usage tient lieu d'essai.

Guerry, "Sur les usages et traditions du Poitou," Mémoires et dissertations publiés par la Société Royale des Antiquaires de France, viii.

"The following singular usage obtains universally ... all conjugal intercourse is entirely suspended from the time of accouchement until the child be completely weaned, which seldom takes place before it is able to run about.

[FORMULE.Not proper, because the participle holden is not in that form which present usage authorizes.

Yet the beaten path forsaking, Thou didst run into the snare; So with law and usage breaking, On thy wilful course didst fare; Yet at last high thought has given To thy noble courage weight, For the loftiest thou has striven It to win was not thy fate.

He that gives the name HORSE to that idea which common usage calls MULE, talks improperly, and will not be understood.