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Such a sleep

They sleep-the men I loved.

108. Nor ever yet had Arthur fought a fight

Like this last, dim, weird battle of the West. 109. They that have done this deed are honorable. 110. He laughed a laugh of merry scorn.

111. I would fain die a dry death.

112. Pray but one prayer for me 'twixt closed lips, Think but one thought of me up in the stars.

113. Assemble all the poor men of your sort;'

Draw them to the Tiber banks, and weep your tears
Into the channel.

114. We twain had never kissed a kiss or vowed a vow. 115. Gray Brother, outside, whined a muffled and penitent whine of anxiety and fear.

116. Now the turnpike gate again flew open in short space,

The tollman thinking, as before, that Gilpin rode

a race.

117. April, April,

Laugh thy girlish laughter;

Then, the moment after,

Weep thy girlish tears!

118. Since I received command to do this business,

I have not slept one wink.

119. Let us run with patience the race that is before us. 120. When I dance the last dance with you, you will see me beckon you.

121. Beatrix loves admiration more than love.

122. Catherine was saved

attempting an answer.

the embarrassment of

123. When morning came, Hansel and Gretel were shown two beautiful little beds with white curtains.

124. Shylock was offered the ducats, but he refused to

take them.

125. She was bequeathed her grandmother's jewels.
126. He was unexpectedly left a large fortune.

127. The laborer was paid his wages and dismissed.
128. Mowgli was taught the Stranger's Hunting Call.
129. The child was promised a present for her
birthday.

130. We are forgiven our sins.

131. The boy was asked a question which he was unable to answer.

132. I have been told the truth.

133. He was refused admission.

134. He was forbidden access to the sacrifices; he was refused the protection of the law.

135. I was also taught the master word of thy tribe. 136. She had fallen into good hands, known nothing but kindness from the Campbells, and had been given an excellent education.

137. Her eyes, a deep grey, with dark eyelashes and eyebrows, had never been denied their praise.

Exercise 4.-Miscellaneous Exercise for Parsing
Nouns. Parse the nouns in italics.

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1. By his wilfulness he made his error a sin, his mistake a crime.

2. The master became a servant, the servant a

3.

master.

Romans now

Have thews and limbs like their ancestors.

4. O grief, where hast thou led me?

5. That man of hers, Pisanio, her old servant, I have not seen these two days.

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6. It were impious to trace any farther the picture of

a blasphemer and parricide's death-bed.

7. He feels no more hate than love.

8. Sing unto him a new song.

9. Yesterday the sullen year

Saw the snowy whirlwind fly.

10. You have always been called a merciful man.
There is sweet music here that softer falls

petals from blown roses on the grass.
12. Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals
The blast of war's great organ shakes the skies.
13. His prayer he saith, this patient, holy man.
14. A man he was to all the country dear.
15. They saw in death his eyelids close.
16. Let his children be vagabonds.

17. O spare me not, my brother Edward's son,
For that I was his father Edward's son.

18. He did bid Antonius send word to you.

19. True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
20. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf.
21. By the pricking of my thumbs

Something wicked this way comes.

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22. Behold, I seem but king among the dead.

23. I'll pray a thousand prayers for thy death.

24. When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a proverb unto them.

25. He was taught all accomplishments.

26. Hence! home, you idle creatures, get you home.

27. At St. Peter's the duke was made king, the king an emperor.

28. Pleasantly rose, next morn, the sun on the village of Grand Pré.

29. Lord, be merciful to me, a fool.
30. Men are but children of a larger growth.
31. In full-blown dignity see Wolsey stand,

Law in his voice and fortune in his hand. 32. This expostulation was addressed to no other than our acquaintance, Isaac.

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33. "I was taught that lesson," answered the youth, "by a rascally forester of the Duke of Burgundy." 34. Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.

35. Come, read to me some poem,

Some simple and heartfelt lay.

36. Mute with amazement and sorrow, Priscilla, the Puritan maiden,

Looked into Alden's face, her eyes dilated with wonder.

37. I am not Cinna, the conspirator.

38. I cannot will my will, nor work my work wholly, nor make myself in mine own realm victor and lord.

39. We are given admonition.

40. Let that day be darkness.

41. Now is the winter of our discontent

Made glorious summer by this sun of York.

42. Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it

to you.

43. Hands of invisible spirits touch the springs Of that mysterious instrument, the soul.

44. Rats!

house.

They fought the dogs, and killed the cats. 45. Thus have I been twenty years in 46. Man became a living soul.

47. I grant I am a woman, but withal

your

A woman well reputed, Cato's daughter.

oby, low

48. Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is.
49. Let music swell the breeze,

And ring from all the trees
Sweet Freedom's song.

50. Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans
Upon his hoe, and gazes on the ground,
The emptiness of ages in his face,

And on his back the burden of the world.

51. Behold her single in the field.
Yon solitary Highland lass.

52. Three weeks we westward bore.
53. A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays
And confident to-morrows.

54. Mighty victor! mighty lord!

Low on his funeral couch he lies.

55. Cedric and Athelstane relied on their descent and character as well as their courage.

56. "She loves the finger of my kinsman Wilfred's. glove better than my whole person."

57. At anchor in Hampton Roads we lay,

On board of the Cumberland, sloop-of-war.

58. This man is now become a god.

59. I have seen the ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam.

60. Let independence be our boast.

61. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

62. This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.

63. O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore are thou Romeo?

64. I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

65. 'Twas Pentecost, the feast of gladness.

66. She hath betrayed me and shall die the death.

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