Was his wealth stored fraudfully, the spoil of orphans wronged, and widows who had none to plead their rights?
Have not you, too, gone about the earth like an evil genius, blasting the fair fruits of peace and industry?
Is that a map which you have before you, with the leaves blotted with ink?
Will you say that your time is your own, and that you have a right to employ it in the manner you please?
[Sometimes a comma is to be read like a period, with the falling inflection of the voice.]
The teacher directed him to take his seat, to study his lesson, and to pass no more time in idleness.
It is said by unbelievers that religion is dull, unsocial, uncharitable, enthusiastic, a damper of human joy, a morose intruder upon human pleasure.
Charles has brought his pen instead of his pencil, his paper instead of his slate, his grammar instead of his arithmetic.
Perhaps you have mistaken sobriety for dullness, equanimity for moroseness, disinclination to bad company for aversion to society, abhorrence of vice for uncharitableness, and piety for enthusiasm.
Henry was careless, thoughtless, heedless, and inattentive.