9. It has been thus far an exceptionably busy campaign.
Oral Exercise.—The following sentences are from Stevenson’s volume, Virginibus Puerisque. As in the preceding exercise, decide on the best word for each place in question.
1. Think of the heroism of Johnson, think of that superb indifference to mortal [limit] that set him upon his dictionary, and carried him through triumphantly to the end!
2. [Most] everybody in our land ... can understand and sympathize with an admiral or a prize-fighter.
3. When he comes to ride with the king’s pardon, he must bestride a chair, which he will so hurry and belabor and on which he will so furiously [demean] himself, that the messenger will arrive, if not bloody with spurring, at least fiery red with haste. If his romance involves an accident upon a cliff, he must clamber in person about the chest of drawers and fall bodily [onto] the carpet, before his imagination is satisfied.
4. Surely all these are [practicable] questions to a neophyte entering upon life with a view to play.
5. A sedentary population ... can [noways, in no wise] explain to itself the gaiety of these passers-by.
6. To borrow and [demean] an image, all the evening street-lamps burst into song.
7. But the conservative, while lauding progress, is ever timid of innovation; his is the hand upheld to [council] pause; his is the signal advising slow [advance].