Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 24, 2025
If any light had illuminated that man, it might have been divined from the thorough manner in which he was soaked that he had passed the night in the rain. Arrived beneath the elephant, he uttered a peculiar cry, which did not belong to any human tongue, and which a paroquet alone could have imitated. Twice he repeated this cry, of whose orthography the following barely conveys an idea:
Not that I am apprehensive of your forgetting to speak French: since it is probable that two-thirds of our daily prattle is in that language; and because, if you leave off writing French, you may perhaps neglect that grammatical purity, and accurate orthography, which, in other languages, you excel in; and really, even in French, it is better to write well than ill.
Dictation exercises were turned to account in the study of grammar and orthography, and writing was taught by imitation, though the "copy-book" was not paper, but a tablet covered with a thin coating of wax, and the pen a stylus, pencil-shaped, sharp at one end and flat at the other, so that the mark made by the point might be smoothed out by reversing the instrument.
But our fishermen, with a happy disregard of orthography, and, perhaps, with an eye to that brevity which is said to be the soul of wit, prefer to call it Skimlico. When the gear was down the men retired to their little cabin to refresh themselves with a meal and a pipe. The skipper, who had recovered neither his spirits nor his self-respect since his recent fall, preferred to remain on deck.
The nuns ere not strict, and they must have been very ignorant, for they had taught her nothing but her prayers, a little reading, some writing, very bad orthography, embroidery, and heraldry; but they were very good-natured, and had a number of pensionnaires who seemed to have all run wild together in the corridors and gardens, and played all sorts of tricks on the nuns.
Sawyer substitutes for the language of the common version the foreign word of the original, sometimes merely giving the orthography of the Greek in English letters, sometimes affixing a termination, and frequently he adds, in brackets, an explanation of his rendering. As examples of this, we quote the following: "And he desired to fill his stomach with the carob pods which the swine eat."
And now, when the town was fallen into the sere and yellow leaf of an unlovely senility, the graveyard though somewhat marred by time and circumstance, and not altogether exempt from innovations in grammar and experiments in orthography, to say nothing of the devastating coyote answered the humble needs of its denizens with reasonable completeness.
We may have to make a long day of it to-morrow." "I am accustomed to doing without my sleep at times," replied Christophe, which was his first name, according to the French orthography, and was pronounced in two syllables. "Of course you have, when your duty required you to be on deck; but there is not the least need of doing so now."
The duchess took the letter, read it, and passed it to her neighbor, who passed it on, so that it made the round of the table. Malezieux, who had it the last, could not repress a slight smile. "Ah! poet," said Richelieu, "you are laughing; I suppose I have had the misfortune to offend that ridiculous prude called orthography.
Let each reader take his lead-pencil and remorselessly correct the orthography, the capitalization, and the punctuation of the essay.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking