11. She promised to befriend him and advised his disguising himself, lest the Magician should see him and turn him likewise into stone.—Old Deccan Days.
12. The buying a new coat is as to the cost of it a much more important matter of consideration to me than building a new Exchange is to you.—Ruskin.
13. She had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes.—Mrs. Gaskell.
14. It is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found, that is of consequence.—Lowell.
15. A perfectly truthful man, who loves truth for its own sake, is not contented with being as truthful as other people.—J. F. Clarke.
16. It’ll be no use their putting their heads down and saying, “Come up again, dear!”—Lewis Carroll.
Exercise 27
Analyze the following sentences:—
1. Miss Binson was, to quote her neighbors, a little too sharp-set.—Miss Jewett.
2. On she came, swaying, rocking, plunging, with a great whiteness wrapping her about like a cloud, and moving with her moving.—Hearn.