Language Lessons, Book 2Werner School Book Company, 1897 |
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adjective clause ADJECTIVE MODIFIER adverbial clause animals Answer the questions autumn bark beginning birds Black Forest called Change the italicized color comma COMPOSITION EXERCISES compound sentences contracted sentences crow Cyclops Danube DESCRIPTION FROM OUTLINE diligent direct object direct quotation ears earth eggs Elbe Eurylochus expressions eyes father fire foregoing forest Form sentences fox catches fruit future perfect tense gold hare head horses indirect insects italicized words land larvæ LESSON letter means mother mountains mouse nest nouns participle past perfect tense phrases plants possessive pronoun preposition present perfect principal clause pupil RELATIVE PRONOUN Rip Van Winkle rivers RULES AND PRINCIPLES SENTENCE EXERCISES sheep sleep song soon spring storm subordinate clause summer TEACHER tell things thought told tongue transitive verb tree Ulysses Whither wind wings winter wolf woods WORD STUDIES Write the story
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Page 147 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie : There I couch*. When owls do cry, '} \ On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 115 - ... odd-looking personages playing at ninepins. They were dressed in a quaint, outlandish fashion. Some wore short doublets; others, jerkins, with long knives in their belts; and most of them had enormous breeches of similar style with that of the guide's.
Page 29 - Strike — till the last armed foe expires; Strike — for your altars and your fires; Strike — for the green graves of your sires, God — and your native land!
Page 106 - ... evening was gradually advancing; the mountains began to throw their long blue shadows over the valleys; he saw that it would be dark long before he could reach the village, and he heaved a heavy sigh when he thought of encountering the terrors of Dame Van Winkle. As he was about to descend, he heard a voice from a distance, hallooing, "Rip Van Winkle! Rip Van Winkle!
Page 99 - ... woodland. He saw at a distance the lordly Hudson, far, far below him, moving on its silent but majestic course, with the reflection of a purple cloud or the sail of a lagging bark here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom, and at last losing itself in the blue highlands.
Page 127 - These mountain beds do not agree with me," thought Rip, "and if this frolic should lay me up with a fit of the rheumatism, I shall have a blessed time with Dame Van Winkle." With some difficulty he got down into the glen : he found the gully up which he and his companion had ascended the preceding evening; but to his astonishment a mountain stream was now foaming down it, leaping from rock to rock, and filling the glen with babbling murmurs.
Page 145 - ... he was himself or another man. In the midst of his bewilderment, the man in the cocked hat demanded who he was, and what was his name. "God knows!
Page 106 - On nearer approach he was still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance. He was a short, square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard.
Page 126 - what excuse shall I make to Dame Van Winkle!" He looked round for his gun, but in place of the clean, welloiled fowling-piece, he found an old firelock lying by him, the barrel incrusted with rust, the lock falling off, and the stock worm-eaten.
Page 127 - He now suspected that the grave roysters of the mountain had put a trick upon him, and having dosed him with liquor, had robbed him of his gun. Wolf, too, had disappeared, but he might have strayed away after a squirrel or partridge. He whistled after him and shouted his name, but all in vain ; the echoes repeated his whistle and shout, but no dog was to be seen.