EXERCISE.

Select the qualifying adjectives in the following sentences, and state

the nouns they qualify:—

1. A wise man considers his words.

2. Gentle, loving Nell was dead.

3. Her sleep was beautiful and calm.

4. Wonderful animals are to be seen in African forests.

5. With a slow and noiseless footstep

Comes that messenger divine.—_Longfellow._

6. Like other dull men, the king was all his life suspicious of

superior people.—_Thackeray._

7. O Caledonia! stern and wild,

Meet nurse for a poetic child!

Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,

Land of the mountain and the flood.—_Scott._

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=LESSON XXX.=

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