Do we say aired or erred

aired 114 occurrences

Added to this, they must be kept in a well-aired place, neither too hot nor too cold, and freely supplied with dry litter.

"It is the first time that work was ever called for," said the librarian, smiling as he took it from the shelf, and aired the leaves a little.

And the very woods afar off, skilfully arranged, aired by broad clearings, seemed to possess more sap, as if all the surrounding growth of life had instilled additional vigor into them.

Ransom aired his pet grievancethe advent of Easterners, who presumed to take up land which was supposed to belong to, or at least go with, the old Spanish grants.

"It's a lovely morning; you'll find it nicely aired."

All the excretions must be put aside for the inspection of the physician, but not kept in the sick chamber, which must be well aired, and perfectly free from closeness.

All bed clothing should be properly aired, by free exposure to the light and air every morning.

He is thoughtful, but there is much sly humour in him; he is cautious but free when aired a little.

Many physicians, I must own, recommend carpets during winter, though not in summer; and in no case, unless they are well shaken and aired, at least once a week.

" This considerationI mean the impurity of sleeping rooms, even after every precaution has been used to keep them ventilatedaffords one of the strongest inducements to going abroad early in the morning (especially when there is no other room which either adults or children can occupy) while the nursery or chamber is aired and ventilated.

The bed and all the clothes should first be thoroughly aired.

You may argue that those three night-prowlers might have shot Ticknor and his wife and Grim through the window while we aired our superior virtue.

Do you thinkbut there, I have aired my English speech and have had my fling at Huxley.

"I suppose they ought to be taken down and aired," he said.

The large, dark parlors were thrown open, the best chambers were aired, the bright, autumnal flowers were gathered and in tastefully arranged bouquets adorned the mantels, while Theo and Maggie, in their best attire, flitted uneasily from room to room, running sometimes to the gate to look down the grassy road which led from the highway, and again mounting the tower stairs to obtain a more extended view.

The sun had aired the opening day before I appeared on deck.

The spacious interior, represented in our view, is one of the most agreeable places in the whole precinct of these gardens, being well aired and lighted, very nicely paved, and tastefully decorated in pale color, with some fine tropical plants in tubs on the floor, or in the windows, and in baskets hanging from the roof.

The day may come when he may be able to spend but little of his time at his Highbury home, but he has children who will keep the house inhabited and well aired if he himself does not.

That Charter got wonderfully aired and invigorated on its ocean-passage.

The house was not more than twenty years old, and the chamber must therefore have been aired within that distance of time, but not, I should have judged, more recently.

The cabin was swept and aired, the stove cleaned, the fittings dusted, the beds made, the tides, thermometers, and barometers registered; the logs posted up, clothes mended, food cooked, traps visited, etc., with the regularity of clockwork, and

We had scarcely ranged our furniture, and aired our rooms, when my wife began to grow discontented, and to wonder what the neighbours would think, when they saw so few chairs and chariots at her door.

Furniture on the porch, woolens on the line, mattresses in the yardeverything that could be pounded, beaten, whisked, rubbed, flapped, shaken or aired was dragged out and subjected to one or all of these indignities.

It should be thoroughly scrubbed with borax or sal-soda and water, and well aired, at least once a week.

They should be thoroughly dried with the iron and well aired before being laid away, in order to bring out the patterns well and to give them the desirable glossy finish.

erred 246 occurrences

It does not appear what good end could be gained, on the part of Providence, by the permission of these magical enchantments, supposing them supernatural; and if we imagine the Devil to have acted spontaneously, with a view to support his power and influence, he most manifestly erred in his design.

If they have erred much, the errors, even the minor ones, have been transformed into crimes.

"He was," he says, "the best, the kindest (and yet strict too) friend I ever had; and I look on him still as a father, whose warnings I have remembered but too well, though too late, when I have erred, and whose counsel I have but followed when I have done well or wisely.

Chameleons who can paint in white and black? 'Yet Chloe sure was formed without a spot' Nature in her then erred not, but forgot. 'With every pleasing, every prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?'She wants a heart.

Or, on the other hand, that the latter erred in enduring at all to look on at and listen to such proceedings?

Then it was we who erred and did wrong in confiscating them; or (to clear your skirts and ours) it was at least Caesar who acted irregularly, he who ordered this to be done: yet you did not censure him at all.

I erred in haste, perhaps; I should have waited until you had a night's rest.

At the same time,while I do not presume to judge in the case of writers whom I know less fully than I happen to know Wordsworth and his contemporaries,it seems clear that the very greatest men have occasionally erred as to what parts of their writings might, with most advantage, survive; and that they have even more frequently erred as to what MS. letters, etc.,casting light on their contemporariesshould, or should not, be preserved.

At the same time,while I do not presume to judge in the case of writers whom I know less fully than I happen to know Wordsworth and his contemporaries,it seems clear that the very greatest men have occasionally erred as to what parts of their writings might, with most advantage, survive; and that they have even more frequently erred as to what MS. letters, etc.,casting light on their contemporariesshould, or should not, be preserved.

In the essay on Coleridge I attempted to characterize the European reaction against the negative philosophy of the eighteenth century: and here, if the effect only of this one paper were to be considered, I might be thought to have erred by giving undue prominence to the favourable side, as I had done in the case of Bentham to the unfavourable.

Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and laid it on her shoulder, and gave to her the child and let her go, which, when she was departed, erred in the wilderness of Beersheba.

Neither had the squire himself erred on the side of flattering his fellow-creatures.

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let there be No farther strife nor enmity Between us twain; we both have erred!

Ah I we must acknowledge that the deputies of the Seine and the Maires of Paris, misled like ourselves, erred in siding with the insurrectionists.

They have erred grievously in perverting history to their own purposes.

"No, we have not erred!

"The officer erred in granting a permit.

If such has been the usual doctrine of the grammarians, they have erred on the one side, as much as our philosopher, and his learned authorities, on the other.

We sometimes thought he erred by excess in this particular.

He searched his memory, but he could not discover in what particular he had erred, and he was forced to continue his anxious waiting, until the stars should choose to fight for him.

If Tayoga had erred either in omission or commission then the spirits that hovered about him forgave him, as when the night was thickest they gave the sign.

But, again, this quite obvious moral, that if we have our responsibility, if, in other words, we have not done all that we might and have been led away by temper and passion, we should, in order to avoid a repetition of such errors in the future, try and see where we have erred in the past, is precisely the moral that Mr. Churchill does not draw.

It erred, it lost itself amid this twofold confidence; it attempted what was far beyond its right and power; it misjudged the moral nature of man and the conditions of the social state.

It appears to me, therefore, that Carducci has erred in not taking a sufficiently broad view of the lines on which literary development proceeds; and also, more specifically, in failing to recognize the importance of the distinction between the ordinary and the dramatic eclogue.

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