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The felicity of this last form of the phrase is its expression of both these ideas, which are united in fact as in word. A rare construction of the verb to believe, with the simple preposition in, coincides with this part of the meaning of believing unto or into, and need not be separately considered.
About this time Laura learned the difference between the present and past tense of the verb. And here her simplicity rebukes the clumsy irregularities of our language.
I laughed; but he seemed to be serious, and, having grasped the armful of wood, he began to repeat as he ran, "The conjugation of the verb consists in its variations according to number according to number and person " And then, throwing down the wood and piling it, "according to the time according to the time to which the action refers."
"I don't see why they should," said I. "Come, let us be off to America together." "To America together?" said Belle. "Yes," said I; "where we will settle down in some forest, and conjugate the verb siriel conjugally." "Conjugally?" said Belle. "Yes; as man and wife in America." "You are jesting, as usual," said Belle. "Not I, indeed. Come, Belle, make up your mind, and let us be off to America."
Yet, if Bailly still lived, we should be only just in saying to him, as Voltaire did, merely changing the tense of a verb, "Your two books were, Sir, treasures of the most profound erudition and the most ingenious conjectures, adorned with an eloquence of style, which is always suitable to the subject." Bailly became the particular and intimate friend of Franklin at the end of 1777.
I then said, I did not think the 't' superfluous, 'fiert' being an old French word, not derived from the noun 'ferus', proud, threatening; but from the verb 'ferit', he strikes, he wounds; the motto, therefore, did not appear to mean, some threat, but, 'Some strike who do not kill'. The whole company fixed their eyes on me, then on each other, without speaking a word; never was a greater degree of astonishment; but what most flattered me, was an air of satisfaction which I perceived on the countenance of Mademoiselle de Breil.
I cannot think a girl of your age should cry over a simple verrrb." "I thought it was a very elaborate verb!" said Pixie faintly. "But it wasn't that that made me cry; it was hurting your feelings, Mademoiselle!" Mademoiselle leant back in her seat and looked intently at the shrinking figure. "Look up, cherie!" she said softly, and Pixie's fear fell from her like a mantle.
She had exactly the German way; whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
#Notched.# This word well describes the appearance of old pollard willows after they have been cropped; but its full propriety may escape notice. A very early use of the verb to notch was to cut or crop the hair roughly, and notched was so used.
His headache over the present treatment of the verb 'To bid, was a quaint beginning for one who had soon to plead before Japanese, and who acknowledged now 'in contrition of spirit, that in formerly opposing the scheme for an Academy, he helped to the handing of our noble language to the rapid reporter of news for an apathetic public.
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