Give the positive, comparative, and superlative degrees of the adjective solemn, with illustrations of the meaning of the word? Solemn, being married: solemner, not being able to get married; solemnest, wanting to be un-married when you are married.
Give the positive, comparative, and superlative degrees of getting on in the world? Get on; get honor; get honest.
Sir Kenneth rode forth from his castle gate,
On a prancing steed rode he;
He was my first of large estate,
And he went the Lady Ellen to see.
The Lady Ellen had been wedded five years,
And a goodly wife proved she;
She’d a lovely boy, and a lovelier girl,
And they sported upon their mother’s knee.
At what period of his sorrow does a widower recover the loss of his dear departed? When he re-wives!
What would be a good motto to put up at the entrance of a cemetery? “Here lie the dead, and here the living lie!”
Why, asks a disconsolate widow, is venison like my late and never sufficiently-to-be-lamented husband? Because—oh, dear! oh, dear!—it’s the dear departed!
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