A Handbook of Present-day English ...Kemink & Zoon, 1915 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
Accidence and Syntax action adjective clauses adjective-adjunct adverb adverbial adjuncts adverbial clauses asked Athenaeum attributive nouns auxiliary Barchester Towers Bennett called Cannan class-nouns collective nouns Compare compound Conrad construction dare definite article dependent clauses ending Everyman express father following quotation function Fyne genitive gerund Gilbert Cannan headword Hence indefinite infinitive KRUISINGA literary English London meaning Meredith mixed future Name of Garland never Note nouns denoting object occasionally Oxford passive past participle Patterson personal pronouns Pett Ridge Pilot plural form poet possessive pronouns preceding predicate prefix prepositional adjunct present tense preterite principal clause proper names qualified Quinneys rare referring relative pronoun Rügen seems Sefton Delmer singular sometimes speaker spelt spoken English Stephen Compton stress subjunctive suffix superlative syllable tell things thought told Trollope unstressed usually Vachell verb woman words writing
Fréquemment cités
Page 488 - But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow!
Page 420 - I have also thought it expedient to restrict myself still further, having abstained from the use of many expressions, in themselves proper and beautiful, but which have been foolishly repeated by bad Poets, till such feelings of disgust are connected with them as it is scarcely possible by any art of association to overpower.
Page 294 - My father had left a small collection of books in a little room up-stairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined my own) -and which nobody else in our house ever troubled. From that blessed little room, Roderick Random...
Page 124 - For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
Page 58 - Hold the book with its back on a smooth or covered table; let the front board down, then the other, holding the leaves in one hand while you open a few leaves at the back, then a few at the front, and so on, alternately opening back and front, gently pressing open the sections till you reach the center of the volume. Do this two or three times and you will obtain the best results. Open the volume violently or carelessly in any one place and you will likely break the back and cause a start in the...
Page 478 - THE Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the Modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have left by the Tiber.
Page 479 - ... was the idea of pursuit. He had been pursuing for six months as never in his life before, and what had actually unsteadied him, as we join him, was the sense of how he had been justified. Capture had crowned the pursuit — or success, as he would otherwise have put it, had rewarded virtue; whereby the consciousness of these things made him, for the hour, rather serious than gay. A sobriety that might have consorted with failure sat in his handsome face, constructively regular and grave, yet...
Page 325 - My satire is against those who see figures and averages, and nothing else — the representatives of the wickedest and most enormous vice of this time — the men who, through long years to come, will do more to damage the real useful truths of political economy than I could do (if I tried) in my whole life...
Page 58 - ... on, alternately opening back and front, gently pressing open the sections till you reach the center of the volume. Do this two or three times and you will obtain the best results. Open the volume violently or carelessly in any one place and you will likely break the back and cause a start in the leaves. Never force the back ; if it does not yield to gentle opening rely upon it the back is too tightly or strongly lined.
Page 73 - ... you're not only devilishly impertinent, but you're talking nonsense. Every pretty girl is not such a fool as you, to suppose that when a gentleman admires her beauty and pays her a little attention, he must mean something particular. Every man likes to flirt with a pretty girl, and every pretty girl likes to be flirted with. The wider the distance between them, the less harm there is, for then she's not likely to deceive herself." "I don't know what you mean by flirting...