Exercise. Analyze the following sentences, supplying the words omitted wherever there is an ellipsis.

1. Wisdom is better than rubies.

2. A song to the oak, the brave old oak!

3. The sun shall not smite thee by day nor the moon by night.

4. She will close the house and go to her son's.

5. Cæsar had his Brutus; Charles the First his Cromwell.

6. It is more blessed to give than to receive.

7. And then to breakfast with what appetite you have.

8. To-day he puts forth the tender leaves of hope; to-morrow blossoms.

9. Love's wing moults when caged and captured.

10. He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

11. Few and short were the prayers we said.

12. All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.

13.

Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage.

14. Though mild, Calvin was also intolerant.

15.

Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound.

16. Drink to me only with thine eyes.

17.

True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings,
Kings it makes gods and meaner creatures, kings.

18. My true love hath my heart, and I have his.

19.

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime.

20. What if the river is too deep for the cattle to ford?
21.
If all the year were playing holidays

To sport would be as tedious as to work.

22. My kingdom for a horse!

23.

No matter what the daisies say,

I know I'll be married some fine day.

24. Blessings on thee, little man!

25.

26.

Six white eggs on a bed of hay,

Flecked with purple, a pretty sight.

'Lady Moon, Lady Moon, where are you roving?"
"Over the sea."

27. The wind has a language, I would I could learn.

XCVII. REVIEW OF ANALYSIS

Exercise. Analyze the following sentences. These sentences contain examples of the various constructions that have been presented in this book. If there is any doubt as to what part of speech a certain word is, the dictionary will usually enable you to decide. Where an ellipsis occurs, the word or words omitted should be supplied.

1. How the black cat had captured the alert and restless squirrel so quickly was a great mystery to me.

2. If a woman puts on airs with her equals, she probably has something about herself or her family that she is ashamed of.

3. In writing these memoirs I shall yield to the inclination so natural to old men, of talking of themselves and their own actions. 4. When ye come where I have stepped,

Ye will wonder why ye wept.

5. I sought out one of these few, Fred Ouillette, pilot and son of a pilot, an idol in the company's eyes, a hero to the boys of Montreal, a figure to be stared at always by anxious passengers.

6. Must we conclude that the dignity of a bird depends upon the length of his tail?

7. During these gales, the top of the tableland is enveloped in thick clouds, which the people of the Cape call the Devil's Table Cloth.

8. The sand-hills were gashed with numberless ravines; and as the sky had suddenly darkened, and a cold gusty wind arisen, the strange shrubs and the dreary hills looked doubly wild and desolate.

9.

Floweret and hope may die,

But love with us shall stay.

10. There are three beautiful dandelions out on the terrace. 11.

I hope to see my Pilot face to face

When I have crossed the bar.

12. Gray Brother did not come upon the night when I sent him the word.

13. The beasts cannot use me more cruelly than I have been used by my fellow creatures.

14. If I stroked the cat in my pet monkey's presence, he would get into a paroxysm of rage and make great efforts to bite me.

15.

The spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great Original proclaim.

16. He was a strange figure, this tattered, long-haired man, with the spear and wallet, and his boots cut down into sandals.

17. Gordon waited long for an opportunity to sing in the choir at old St. George's.

18. When shall you leave Yarmouth? On the fifteenth, if possible. 19. The captain, whose ideas of hard riding were all derived from trans-Atlantic sources, expressed the utmost amazement at the feats of Sorel, who went leaping ravines, and dashing at full speed up and down the sides of precipitous hills, lashing his horse with the recklessness of a Rocky Mountain rider.

20. The Great American Desert is a land where no man permanently abides; for in certain seasons of the year there is no food either for the hunter or his steed.

21.

One constant element in luck

Is genuine, solid, old Teutonic pluck.

22. Did you ever think why a dog's nose is always wet?

23. One of the most difficult things is to get any wild animal to allow himself to be touched with the human hand.

24. Old Trinity's steeple probably sways eighteen inches whenever an elevated train passes.

25. Do steeple climbers always work in pairs?

26. The chipmunk had made a well-defined path from his door out through the weeds and dry leaves into the territory where his feeding ground lay.

27. No wonder Eve ate the forbidden fruit.

28. In Bermuda the banana is as omnipresent as the onion.

29. We called the mice Jack, Jill, and Jenny, and they seemed to know their names.

30. Shooting the Lachine Rapids is like taming a particularly fierce lion.

31. Turk slept at night outside his master's door, and no sentry could be more alert upon his watch than this faithful mastiff, who had apparently only one ambition, to protect and to accompany

his owner.

32. We fancied we could hear the huge bodies of the whales burrowing through the water.

33. At length, finding my life very solitary, I accepted the claw and heart of a rich and respectable green parrot, who offered me a good home and the devotion of a lifetime.

34. Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

35. Presently the doe stepped away, and left her little one lying. on a spotted heap of dead leaves and moss.

36. While traveling along the Rhine, we observed that when the German has nothing else to do, he eats and drinks.

37. The Spaniards changed the whole character and habits of the Indians when they brought the horse among them.

38. The fires in the Australian bush are often the work of the natives, to frighten away the white men; and sometimes the work of the shepherds, to make the grass sprout afresh.

39. Near the Pyramids, more wondrous and more awful than all else in the land of Egypt, there sits the lonely Sphinx.

40. The sexton had lived in Stratford for eighty years, and seemed still to consider himself a vigorous man, with the trivial exception that he had nearly lost the use of his legs.

41. What if this were my last day at school?

42. It was something to have seen the dust of Shakespeare. 43. A queen bee will lay two hundred eggs in a few hours, and in the year she will generally have laid twenty or thirty thousand.

44. The ground was carpeted with softest moss, into which the boy's feet sunk so deep that they were almost covered; and all over the moss were sprinkled little star-shaped pink flowers. 45. The wolf asked little Red Riding Hood whither she was going. 46. O happy harbor of God's saints!

O sweet and pleasant soil!
In thee no sorrow can be found,
Nor grief, nor care, nor toil.

47. She fell back upon the floor as if by the stroke of an unseen hand.

48. Whether she was attended by a physician from Canton or from Milton, I was unable to say; but neither the gig with the large allopathic sorrel horse, nor the gig with the homoeopathic white mare was ever seen hitched at the gate during the day.

49. No sooner did I open their door than out the little starlings would all fly, and seat themselves on my head and shoulders.

50. Neither eye nor ear revealed him anything.

51. Small leisure have the poor for grief.

52. By a flight of winding stairs we reached a covered balcony, over which a tropical vine wanders at will.

53. Dora heard Marjorie singing, laughing, chatting, as she flashed here and there, helping and hindering in about equal proportions.

54. No matter what honors your ancestors attained, make your own name honorable.

55. As I trod the sounding pavement, there was something intense and thrilling in the idea that the remains of Shakespeare were moldering beneath my feet.

56. The lark, springing up from the reeking bosom of the meadow, towered away into the bright fleecy cloud, pouring forth torrents of melody.

57. I now found myself among noble avenues of oaks and elms, whose vast size bespoke the growth of centuries.

58. The air within the tunnel is somewhat damp, but fresh and agreeably cool, and one can scarcely realize in walking along the light passage, that a river is rolling above his head.

59. No frog egg may hope to develop into a turtle, or a bird, or anything but a frog.

60. I heard my own mountain goats bleating aloft.

61. Everybody knows that the porcupine is ridiculously fastidious in his choice of food.

62.

The daisy, by the shadow that it casts,

Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. 63. If I choose to work eleven hours a day, what of it?

64. Far below lay the earth, brown, dry, and desolate, from drouth.

65. There was no sleep that long night for the little duck mother Quackalina.

66. One evening, after the ice of a sleet storm had clogged their wings, the pigeons settled on one of the highest buildings they could find, and sat and shivered through the long night.

67. The taking down of a steeple two hundred and thirty-eight feet high, that rises on a closely built city street, is not a simple proceeding. 68.

The legend of Felix is ended, the toiling of Felix is done;
The master has paid him his wages, the goal of his journey

is won.

69. There we were shown the chair on which the English monarchs have been crowned for several hundred years.

70. Under the seat is the stone brought from the Abbey of Scone, whereon the kings of Scotland were crowned.

71. Sleeping or waking, my thoughts are all of Ireland and of you. 72. Fortunately for us, our two lean, wiry little horses did not object to being used as aquatic animals.