Mary would not reave these people until they could be taken care of by Christian workers.

If thou spare them, rain then upon my head The fulness of thy plagues with deadly ire, To reave this ruthful soul, who all too sore Burns in the wrathful torments of revenge.

But when I once beheld his manly face, And saw his cheer, no more appall'd with fear Of present death, than he whom never dread Did once amate: my heart abhorred then To give consent unto so foul a deed: That wretched death should reave so worthy a man.

20 But seeing kindly sleep refuse to doe His office, and my feeble eyes forgoe, They sought my troubled sense how to deceave With talke that might unquiet fancies reave; [Reave, take away.

20 But seeing kindly sleep refuse to doe His office, and my feeble eyes forgoe, They sought my troubled sense how to deceave With talke that might unquiet fancies reave; [Reave, take away.

That she whose conquering beauty doth captíve 275 My trembling hart in her eternall chaine, One drop of grace at length will to me give, That I her bounden thrall by her may live, And this same life, which first fro me she reaved, May owe to her, of whom I it receaved.

Name of Interviewer: Velma Sample Subject: Slavery Days THE ATTACK THE YANKEES MADE ON JOHNNIE REAVES PLACE GIVEN BY AUNT ELCIE BROWN Aunt Elcie Brown (a negro girl age nine years old) was living in the clay hills of Arkansas close to Centerville, and Clinton in Amid County on Johnnie Reeves Place.

"Reave, reaved or reft, reaving, reaved or reft.

"Reave, reaved or reft, reaving, reaved or reft.

"Reave, reaved or reft, reaving, reaved or reft.

Again, there are, I think, more than twenty redundant verbs which are treated by Crombie,and, with one or two exceptions, by Lowth and Murray also,as if they were always regular: namely, betide, blend, bless, burn, dive, dream, dress, geld, kneel, lean, leap, learn, mean, mulct, pass, pen, plead, prove, reave, smell, spell, stave, stay, sweep, wake, whet, wont.

Reave, reft or reaved, reaving, reft or reaved.

Reave, reft or reaved, reaving, reft or reaved.

Reave, reft or reaved, reaving, reft or reaved.

6. Write the irregular participles which are commonly preferred to the following regular ones: abided, bended, builded, bursted, catched, creeped, dealed, digged, dwelled, freezed, grinded, knitted, layed, meaned, payed, reaved, slided, speeded, splitted, stringed, sweeped, throwed, weaved, weeped, winded. EXERCISE VIII.ADVERBS, &c. 1.

"Make, made; have, had; pay, paid; say, said; leave, left; Dream, dreamt; mean, meant; reave and bereave have reft.

Before verbs, they sometimes arbitrarily employ or omit prefixes: as, bide, or abide; dim, or bedim; gird, or begird; lure, or allure; move, or emove; reave, or bereave; vails, or avails; vanish, or evanish; wail, or bewail; weep, or beweep; wilder, or bewilder: 1.

The following twenty-nine are omitted by this author, as if they were always regular; belay, bet, betide, blend, bless, curse, dive, dress, geld, lean, leap, learn, mulet, pass, pen, plead, prove, rap, reave, roast, seethe, smell, spoil, stave, stay, wake, wed, whet, wont.

We was Reaves from back yonder.

She was a Reaves and her children are mostly Reaves.

She was a Reaves and her children are mostly Reaves.

I was raised by mother and she was a Reaves.

Her name was Olive Reaves.

Her old mistress' name was Charlotte Reaves, old master was Edmond Reaves.

You spent in shady forest all the day, And joyed, returning, to shew me the prey, To tell the story, to describe the place, With all the pleasures of the boasted chace; Till fit for arms, I reaved you from your sport, To train your youth in the Peruvian court: I left you there, and ever since have been The sad attendant of my exiled queen.