V. Avoid blending the termination of one word with the beginning of another, or suppressing the final letter or letters of one word, when the next word commences with a similar sound.

EXAMPLES.

His small eyes instead of His small lies.
She keeps pies " She keeps spies.
His hour is up " His sour is sup.
Dry the widow's tears " Dry the widow steers.
Your eyes and ears " Your rise sand dears.
He had two small eggs " He had two small legs.
Bring some ice cream " Bring some mice scream.
Let all men praise Him " Let tall men pray sim.
He was killed in war " He was skilled in war.
Water, air, and earth " Water rare rand dearth.
Come and see me once more " Come mand see me one smore.

NOTE.—By an indistinct Articulation the sense of a passage is often liable to be perverted.

EXAMPLES.

  1. Will he attempt to conceal his acts?
    Will he attempt to conceal his sacks?
  2. The man had oars to row her over.
    The man had doors to row her rover.
  3. Can there be an aim more lofty?
    Can there be a name more lofty?
  4. The judges ought to arrest the culprits.
    The judges sought to arrest the culprits.
  5. His ire burned when she told him her age.
    His sire burned when she told him her rage.
  6. He was awed at the works of labor and art.
    He was sawed at the works of labor an dart.
  7. He was trained in the religion of his fathers.
    He was strained in the religion of his fathers.

MISCELLANEOUS EXAMPLES.

  1. Bravely o'er the boisterous billows,
    His gallant bark was borne.
  2. Can craven cowards expect to conquer the country?
  3. Click, click, goes the clock; clack, clack, goes the mill.
  4. Did you desire to hear his dark and doleful dreams?
  5. "Firm-paced and slow, a horrid front they form,
    Still as the breeze; but dreadful as the storm."
  6. The flaming fire flashed fearfully in his face.
  7. The glassy glaciers gleamed in glowing light.
  8. How high his honors heaved his haughty head!
  9. He drew long, legible lines along the lovely landscape.
  10. Masses of immense magnitude move majestically through the vast empire of the solar system.
  11. Round the rough and rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.
  12. The stripling stranger strayed straight toward the struggling stream.
  13. She uttered a sharp, shrill shriek, and then shrunk from the shriveled form that slumbered in the shroud.
  14. For fear of offending the frightful fugitive, the vile vagabond ventured to vilify the venerable veteran.
  15. Amidst the mists, with angry boasts,
    He thrusts his fists against the posts,
    And still insists he sees the ghosts.
  16. Peter Prangle, the prickly prangly pear picker, picked three pecks of prickly prangly pears, from the prangly pear trees, on the pleasant prairies.
  17. Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb; now, if Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb, see that thou, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb. Success to the successful thistle sifter.
  18. We travel sea and soil; we pry, we prowl;
    We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.

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SECTION II.
ACCENT AND EMPHASIS.