Her abode may be four miles from Fairton, so that the time-taking live is as far from Fairton in one case as the other; and yet it puts it in two sundry cases.
‘If Alfred gave to Edred a field,’ the time-taking gave ended in the mid-thing, the field (the endingness case), but it put the field to Edred, as his, in the toness case.
The place of a time-taking may be shown by one place-mark, or by two or three, of which a latter may mark the place of a former, as ‘The rooks build in the elms, above the house,’ where the elms mark the place of the building, and the house marks that of the place-mark (the elms).
But some case-words are made up of a smaller case-word and a thing-name, as ‘Alfred sat beside the wall.’ Beside being ‘by the side,’ and the side of the wall (whereof case).
The figure for case-shifting, or the changing of the case-tokens, is called in Gr. enallage as
‘I have ten sovereigns in my purse’; ‘My purse contains ten sovereigns.’
‘The pump has a new handle’; ‘There is a new handle to the pump.’
‘The carpet in the hall’; ‘The carpet of the hall.’
‘The brother of or to that lady.’
‘John likes cricket or is fond of cricket.’