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"Nay, my Lord," said the insidious counsellor, with a smile, "how do kings manage to be everywhere at the same time?" "They have their Ambassadors. But I am not a king." "Not yet a king" the speaker laid stress upon the adverb "nevertheless public representation is one thing; secret agency another." Mahommed's voice sank almost to a whisper. "Wilt thou accept this agency?"
I persuade the children to get certain of the psalms, proverbs, and parables by heart out of school. Bless you! they like that; but as for teaching them such abstract knowledge as what an adverb or an isthmus is, or the height of Mont Blanc, I defy you! And it is all fudge. Will they sweep a room or make an apple-dumpling the better for it? Not they.
If it is an adverb, it makes nonsense of the words, "Thy cares provide." These beauties we have taken, almost at random, from the first part of the poem. The second part is a series of descriptions of various events, a battle, a murder, an execution, a marriage, a funeral, and so forth. Mr.
We are told that the sins of the fathers will be visited to the third and fourth generation." "Well," Miss Joliffe said, and made a formidable pause on this adverb, "if it is the manners of your side of the family to come and insult people in their own houses, I am glad I belong to the other side."
The first page of this book was purely academic; but the study of English undefiled terminated with a slight jar at the top of the second: "Nor must an adverb be used to modif " And the subsequent entries in the book appeared to have little concern with Room 6, Ward School Nomber Seventh.
"Perhaps so," I nodded, "but 'foolish' is an adjective which in this instance should be an adverb and which we will proceed to make so by the suffix 'ly. Thus instead of saying, I talk 'foolish, you must say I talk 'foolishly' " "So you do!" quoth she. "Then I will talk grammar instead, Diana. Pray give me your most careful attention.
And it was that simple action which changed our very superior young "gentleman" into a man: on such slender threads hang the destinies even of nations. He watched the brick idly as it went through space; he watched it idly as it hit the ground just by a clump of dock leaves; and from that moment idly ceases to be the correct adverb.
Indeed, in this hot time of an opening election campaign, the stress of the contest is so severe that the first condition of a good newspaper is sometimes frightfully maltreated. The first duty of a newspaper is to tell the news; to tell it fairly, honestly, and accurately, which are here only differing aspects of the same adverb.
The supposition of some scholars, that in this passage Cic. used the construction in imitation of the archaic style of Cato, is not likely to be true, seeing that in Cato's extant works the construction does not once occur. For the form undum see n. on 5 ferundum. ISTUC not adverb, but neuter pronoun, as in 8.
"I'm glad to hear it," he replied mechanically. He was drinking her in, all the grace and loveliness and wonder of her, himself quite unconscious of the intensity of his gaze. She accepted the mute tribute untroubled; but there was a suggestion of puzzlement in the frown which began to pucker her forehead. "You're really the station-agent?" she asked with a slight emphasis upon the adverb. "Yes.
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