Speaking and Writing: For use in fifth year classesAmerican Book Company, 1911 - English language |
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Æsop asked audience Aztec battle Bernardo birds Black Beauty Bow wow brave brother business letter called careless speakers caught the ball City Mouse classmates Columbus commas Cortez Country Mouse dance Daniel Webster Dear Demosthenes exclamation fable father following sentences frogs Ginger girl give golden ax Grace Darling grasshoppers Hee-haw history play honor horse John Julius Cæsar King listen live Look Mabel manger Marco Polo Mercury mother never noun OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES paragraph Pedro person persuade picture plural poem possessive form predicate printed in italics pronouns pupils Pythias Read the following school yesterday scuttled Sheep ships sing sister sit erect soldiers speak speech story subject word take music lessons teach teacher tell thing three sounds tortoise verb voice woodchuck worm-eaten write WRITTEN EXERCISES Zeke
Popular passages
Page 21 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 89 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past ! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea ! " OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, The Chambered Nautilus.
Page 75 - His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Page 88 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Page 89 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Page 88 - Then out spake Spurius Lartius — A Ramnian proud was he : "Lo, I will stand at thy right hand, And keep the bridge with thee.
Page 87 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Page 88 - Woodman, spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough ! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand, Thy axe shall harm it not. That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea — And wouldst thou hew it down? Woodman, forbear thy stroke! Cut not its earth-bound ties...
Page 75 - Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.
Page 106 - THE VIOLET Dear little Violet, Don't be afraid! Lift your blue eyes From the rock's mossy shade! All the birds call for you Out of the sky: May is here, waiting, And here, too, am I. Why do you shiver so, Violet sweet? Soft is the meadow-grass Under my feet.