I had, as I have before said, guessed that the remains had been removed; yet, I could not conceive that it had been done so thoroughly as not to leave some certain sign, beneath the stone, indicative of their fate.

Of the ten commandments, eight are negative, and all these are indicative in form.

"If a verb does not form its past indicative by adding d, or ed to the indicative present, it is said to be irregular.

Here a truly illuminating result was attained by the simple device of using the indicative for the conditional moodas in Juvenal's famous comment on Cicero's second Philippic: Antoni gladios potuit contemnere si sic omnia dixisset.

It has always seemed to me that the songs of a people, and especially of a people who have composed them themselves, and not adopted them from others, are indicative to a very great degree of their character; whether, as some author supposed, the songs have a reflex influence on the character, or whether they exist simply as its exponents, the result is the same, viz., a greater or less correspondence between the two.