Analysis.
1. Elizabeth's favorite, Raleigh, was beheaded by James I.
favorite (Raleigh) | was beheaded
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\Elizabeth's | \by
\ James I
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+Oral Analysts+.—Elizabeth's and Raleigh are modifiers of the subject; the first word telling whose favorite is meant, the second what favorite. Elizabeth's favorite, Raleigh is the modified subject.
2. The best features of King James's translation of the Bible are derived from Tyndale's version. 3. St. Paul, the apostle, was beheaded in the reign of Nero. 4. A fool's bolt is soon shot. 5. The tadpole, or polliwog, becomes a frog. 6. An idle brain is the devil's workshop. 7. Mahomet, or Mohammed, was born in the year 569 and died in 632. 8. They scaled Mount Blanc—a daring feat.
They | scaled | Mount Blanc ( feat )
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| \a \daring
+Explanation+.—Feat is explanatory of the sentence, They scaled Mount Blanc, and in the diagram it stands, enclosed in curves, on a short line placed after the sentence line.
9. Bees communicate to each other the death of the queen, by a rapid interlacing of the antennae. [Footnote: For uses of each other and one another, see Lesson 124.]
+Explanation+.—Each other may be treated as one term, or each may be made explanatory of bees.
10. The lamp of a man's life has three wicks—brain, blood, and breath.