He was obliged to collect sticks, and put a senseless round-bottomed kettle on a damp reluctant fire; to himself he used much stronger adjectives in describing both; he relieved his feelings slightly by saying that he never ate lunch, and by gloomily eying the game-pie instead of aiding Sarah to demolish it.

And, moreover, this idea queries the adjective of Belgian, Portuguese, French, and British Central Africa alike, just as emphatically as it queries "German."

Another thing to avoid is the use of words in the wrong parts of speech, as a noun for a verb, or an adjective for an adverb.

I use these adjectives with the greatest deliberation.

" I should hardly have applied quite such a complimentary adjective to Mr. Gow's gait myself, but all the same Joyce's diagnosis proved to be quite correct.

His mother held tightly to his arm as they went into the house; she seemed elder sister rather than mother, and he delighted her by telling her soomitting the qualifying adjective before the sister.

He has rounded off the adjectives by describing the movement as 'most foolish of all foolish schemes.'

We must get rid of that adjective without delay.

Girls who didn't know an adjective from an adverb an' would have been stuck by a simple sum in algebra could converse in French an' sing in Italian.

Under this Head may be reckon'd the placing the Adjective after the Substantive, the Transposition of Words, the turning the Adjective into a Substantive, with several other Foreign Modes of Speech which this Poet has naturalized to give his Verse the greater Sound, and throw it out of Prose.

Under this Head may be reckon'd the placing the Adjective after the Substantive, the Transposition of Words, the turning the Adjective into a Substantive, with several other Foreign Modes of Speech which this Poet has naturalized to give his Verse the greater Sound, and throw it out of Prose.

Sometimes, I fear, she aims the adjectives at me.

What is said of adjectives as agreeing or disagreeing with their nouns in number?

the adjectives like, near, and nigh, the preposition to or unto is often understood; as, "It is like [to or unto] silver.

The yelping after spies, the heaping of adjectives on every trifling achievement of British arms, the ill-timed talk of snatching the enemy's trade in a war theoretically fought for a high principle, all that journalistic vulgaritywhich might be as characteristic of our own papers under similar circumstancesone is mercifully spared.

It was a frequent termination of certain adjectives among the Romans,as of those designating a person following the sea, or given to rural pursuits.