College Readings in English ProseFrank William Scott, Jacob Zeitlin |
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... give another illustration , to write naturally is the same thing in regard to common conversation as to read naturally is in regard to common speech . It does not follow that it is an easy thing to give the true accent and inflection to ...
... give another illustration , to write naturally is the same thing in regard to common conversation as to read naturally is in regard to common speech . It does not follow that it is an easy thing to give the true accent and inflection to ...
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... give an example of what is not very clear in the general statement , I should say that the phrase To cut with a knife , or To cut a piece of wood , is per- fectly free from vulgarity , because it is perfectly common ; but to cut an ...
... give an example of what is not very clear in the general statement , I should say that the phrase To cut with a knife , or To cut a piece of wood , is per- fectly free from vulgarity , because it is perfectly common ; but to cut an ...
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... give a thought to the death of Queen Victoria as our author has described it ? But merely to read of Stephen Dedalus walking on the beach is to have come into contact with the vibrating reflex of an actual experience . There are two ...
... give a thought to the death of Queen Victoria as our author has described it ? But merely to read of Stephen Dedalus walking on the beach is to have come into contact with the vibrating reflex of an actual experience . There are two ...
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... give him plenty of time . Now Dick is a good , active , able - bodied boy , possessed of average intelligence and rather more than average zeal . He even had theory of a sort , for he had read various Boy Campers , or the Trapper's ...
... give him plenty of time . Now Dick is a good , active , able - bodied boy , possessed of average intelligence and rather more than average zeal . He even had theory of a sort , for he had read various Boy Campers , or the Trapper's ...
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... give out a sound . In the human voice , the musical effect of the vibrating chords is increased by the cavity of the mouth , which acts as a resonator or sounding - box , and which also , by its shape at any moment , modifies the ...
... give out a sound . In the human voice , the musical effect of the vibrating chords is increased by the cavity of the mouth , which acts as a resonator or sounding - box , and which also , by its shape at any moment , modifies the ...
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