Here is no ruin, no discontinuity, no spent ball.—Id.
Every week, nay, almost every day, was set down in their calendar for some appropriate celebration.—Prescott.
Plural verb.
441. The plural form of the verb is used—
(1) When the subject is plural in form and in meaning; as,—
These bits of wood were covered on every square.—Swift.
Far, far away thy children leave the land.—Goldsmith.
The Arabian poets were the historians and moralists.—Gibbon.
(2) When the subject is a collective noun in which the individuals of the collection are thought of; as,—
A multitude go mad about it.—Emerson.