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grammar 3634 occurrences

No marvel my master be against the grammar; for he hath always made false Latin in the genders.

My chief reason for fixing the date as specified is that tomorrow, though you have doubtless forgotten, is the day of the distribution of prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School, at which, as you know, Gussie is to be the male star and master of the revels.

"Has Market Snodsbury Grammar School burned down?"

What news could possibly be good to me at this moment except the information that bubonic plague had broken out among the scholars of Market Snodsbury Grammar School, and that they were all confined to their beds with spots?"

I can't imagine why I made all that fuss about a potty job like distributing prizes at a rotten little country grammar school.

He was born at Ightfield, in the year 1668, and educated at the grammar-school at Shrewsbury, where he remained four or five years; and at about seventeen years of age, was removed to Christ's Church in Oxford, under the tuition of Mr. George Smalridge, afterwards bishop of Bristol.

EASY GRAMMAR for CHILDREN.

If the town had over one hundred families it had a grammar school, in which Latin was taught.

At eight years of age he was sent to a grammar school, and at ten he was taken from it to assist his father in soap-boiling; but, showing a repugnance to this sort of business, he was apprenticed to his brother James at the age of twelve, to learn the art, or trade, of a printer.

He also studied grammar in all its branches, and geography, and acquired some knowledge of English literature, beginning with that admirable book The Speaker, but it does not appear that Latin and Greek were attended to at this school.

But there was no relaxation in the education of his children, and at the beginning of 1814 George Biddell was sent to the endowed Grammar School at Colchester, then kept by the Rev. E. Crosse, and remained there till the summer of 1819, when he went to College.

On the scribbling-paper are verse-translations from Euripides, careful prose-translations from Thucydides, maps, notes on points of grammar &c.

" "Who have increased in size" would be better grammar and just as good sense.

I pray to God, the Republic of America would weigh the eternal truth of those words, and act accordingly; liberty in America would then be sure to the end of time; but if you say, "American Liberty," and take that grammar for your policy, I dare to say the time will yet come when humanity will have to mourn a new proof of the ancient truth, that without community national freedom is never sure.

In the universal use made of it, gesticulation has some analogy with logic and grammar, in that it has to do with the form, rather than with the matter of conversation; but on the other hand it is distinguishable from them by the fact that it has more of a moral than of an intellectual bearing; in other words, it reflects the movements of the will.

as you're ambitious, and are a very neat draughtsman, you shall try your hand on these proposals for a grammar-school.

"A horse is a quadruped, and quadruped's Latin for beast, as everybody that's gone through the grammar knows.

" "At last thy snow-white age in suburb schools, Shall toil in teaching boys their grammar rules.

See Ramsey's Spanish Grammar, H. Holt & Co., 1902, § 944.] Pero todo fué inútil.

They went to school to get certain formal disciplines, to learn to read, write and cipher and to acquire formal grammar.

It is ill-written, deficient in grammar, and often in English; and yet it interests and even amuses.

How is she going to get it when she is tied down in the grammar school room with a book before her eyes?

Those of you who have taught in the grammar schools year after year will know that a bright girl, one that has been very bright, will have a year when she will come to you and will be absolutely stupid and can't learn.

As Dick had carefully thought out this little speech, translated it into French, and said it over half-a-dozen times, he was able to make himself understood, utterly defective as were his grammar and pronunciation.

Second Spanish grammar and composition.

usage 1541 occurrences

I don't mean to say that I would marry a woman I disliked, and take it out of her in ill-usage or neglect.

Cumulative review, functional grammar and usage.

Sentence mastery and review of functional grammar and usage.

Cumulative review, functional grammar and usage, by J. Martyn Walsh & Anna Kathleen Walsh.

Anna Kathleen Walsh (co-author & C of J. Martyn Walsh); 26Feb63; R311181. <pb id='220.png' n='1963h1/A/0992' /> Sentence mastery and review of functional grammar and usage, by J. Martyn Walsh & Anna Kathleen Walsh.

Handbook of English usage.

BAIR, FREDERICK H. Manual, and key to Better English usage.

Language usage test.

German-English English-German dictionary of everyday usage.

Common sense usage.

A cyclopedia of correct English usage.

Sentence mastery and review of functional grammar and usage.

a cyclopedia of correct English usage.

Baynard Kendrick (A); 9Mar70; R480494. KENNEDY, ARTHUR G. English usage; a study in policy and procedure.

KENNEDY, JAMES M. English usage.

This "plan" was to study the religion, laws, and institutions of his Hindu subjects in order that he might govern as far as possible in conformity with Hindu usage.

So far from intoxication is he, that there is a fable of some hard knocks and ill usage, and even of a thick head being beaten against the harder stones of the courtyard behind, when the said thick head was helpless from much ale.

"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.

The fact that our usage in this respect is a mere convention, not based on physiological facts, makes it all the more reprehensible to falsify psychology by adorning aboriginal tales with the borrowed plumes and phrases of civilization.

The Count of Charolais was informed of it; and in his impetuous wrath he wrote to King Louis, dubbing him simply Sir, instead of giving him, according to the usage between vassal and suzerain, the title of My most dread lord, "May it please you to wit, that some time ago I was apprised of a matter at which I cannot be too much astounded.

"I verily believe," says Commynes, "that if just then the duke had found those whom he addressed ready to encourage him, or advise him to do the king a bad turn, he would have done it; but at that time I was still with the said duke; I served him as chamberlain, and I slept in his room when I pleased, for such was the usage of that house.

This was a usage which Harry was not the man to endure, and there soon arose a scuffle, in which blows had passed between them.

But, on the other hand, had passion not completely got the better of him, had he not at the moment considered the attack made upon him to amount to misconduct so gross as to supersede all necessity for gentle usage on his own part, he would hardly have left the man to live or die as chance would have it.

It might be supposed that in the Western Church the custom was merely a survival of the old Roman usage of renewing the fire on the first of March, were it not that the observance by the Eastern Church of the custom on the same day seems to point back to a still older period when the ceremony of lighting a new fire in spring, perhaps at the vernal equinox, was common to many peoples of the Mediterranean area.

It was, likewise, their usage to light two fires to Bèl, in every district of Ireland, at this season, and to drive a pair of each kind of cattle that the district contained, between those two fires, as a preservative to guard them against all the diseases of that year.

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