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Verbal distinctions.

1. Copy carefully.

2. Write from dictation.

3. Use the

italicized words in sentences of your own.

1. And in thy gentle speech, a prophecy

Is whispered. -PERCY BYSSHE SHelley.

2. Always prophesy good fortune, unless there is an absolute impossibility of its fulfillment.

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4. I shall always consider the best guesser the best

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prophet. -CICERO.

A sculptor wields

The chisel, and the stricken marble grows

To beauty. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

6. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. JOSEPH ADDISON.

7. We have strict statutes and most biting laws.

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- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

He's of stature somewhat low

Your hero always should be tall, you know.

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9. History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with

doubt and controversy; the inscription moulders from the tablet; the statue falls from the pedestal. WASHINGTON IRVING.

Verbal distinctions.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own.

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Plaintive and piteous, as if it wept and wailed

Its wasted tones. - WILLIAM COWPER.

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2. I say I rather think - but don't let that influence you I rather think the plaintiff is the man.

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3. I remember a tall poplar of monumental proportions and aspect, a vast pillar of glassy green.

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4. On my once letting slip at table that I was not fond of a certain popular dish, he begged me at any rate not to say so, for the world would think me mad. - CHARLES LAMB.

5. Behold a gorgeous palace that amid

Yon populous city rears its thousand towers.

-PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

6. A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved isle. - OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

7. The hoary morns precede the sunny days.

ROBERT BUrns.

8. Too careless often as our years proceed, What friends we sort with, or what books we read.

- WILLIAM COWPER.

Verbal distinctions.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own.

1. The long habitation of a powerful and ingenious race has turned every rood of land to its best use.

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2. What a pity to think that these fine ingenuous lads in a few years will all be changed into frivolous members of Parliament!-CHARLES LAMB.

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The lightning now

Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH.

Man is a packhorse,

You may brighten his path by lightening his load.

The scene had lent

To the dark water's breast

Its every leaf and lineament

With more than truth expressed.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

6. There is no liniment for a broken heart.

7. It is pleasant to hear him discourse of patience extolling it as the truest wisdom-and to see

him during the last seven minutes that his dinner is getting ready. -CHARLES LAMB.

8. The doctor had few patients, no patience had his wife.

Verbal distinctions.

1. Copy carefully.

2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the

italicized words in sentences of your own.

1. Her presence of mind is equal to the most pressing trials of life, but will sometimes desert her upon trifling occasions.-CHARLES LAMB.

2. Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?-WILLIAM SHAKkespeare.

3. O see where wide the golden sunlight flows The barren desert blossoms as the rose !

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"Please your honor," quoth the peasant, "This same dessert is not so pleasant;

Give me again my hollow tree,

A crust of bread, and liberty." ALEXANDER POPE.'

5. Tricks and turns that fancy may devise,

Are far too mean for Him that rules the skies.

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6. Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. - GEORGE Farquhar.

7. Life in its large extent is scarce a span.

- CHARLES COTTON.

8. I must bid adieu also to that poor temple of my

childhood, to me more sacred at this moment than perhaps the biggest cathedral then extant could have been. -THOMAS CARLYLE.

Verbal distinctions.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own.

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Is not, as you conceive, indisposition

Of body, but the mind's disease. — John Ford.

2. So the people ceased to honor him during his lifetime, and quietly consigned him to forgetfulness after his decease. - NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.

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Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard. — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

4. Yet all how beautiful! pillars of pearl

Propping the cliffs above. - WIlliam Henry Burleigh.

5. Habits that give them an insight into the nature of labor, and inspire within them a genuine sym

pathy with those whose lot it is to labor.

-JOSIAH GILBERT HOLland.

6. And each incited each to noble deeds.

- ALFRED TENNYSON.

7. Where the swift sun yet paused in his descent

Among the many-folded hills.- PERCY BYSSHE Shelley.

8. The art of gently saying strong things, or of insinuating my dissent, instead of uttering it right

out at the risk of offence. -THOMAS CARLYLE.

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