8. Multitudes came every summer to visit that famous natural curiosity, the Great Stone Face.
9.
And whirling plate, and forfeits paid,
His winter task a pastime made.
10.
He broke the ice on the streamlet's brink,
And gave the leper to eat and drink.
III. Uses of the Possessive.
60. The possessive case always modifies another word, expressed or understood. There are three forms of possessive showing how a word is related in sense to the modified word:—
(1) Appositional possessive, as in these expressions,—
The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle.—Byron.
Beside a pumice isle in Baiæ's bay.—Shelley.