1. My father gave me a fine pony.
2. At this moment the noise grew louder.
3. There are eight girls in the class.
4. Seek the company of the good.
5. It is a sin to deceive anyone.
6. How could he mark thee for the silent tomb!
7. Crossing the field, I found a knife, rusty and broken.
8. On an eminence above the sea paces a strong, rough
Cornishman.
9. On the eastern side of the Nile lies the temple of Karnak.
10. For their lean country much disdain,
We English often show.
11. Home they brought her warrior dead.—_Tennyson._
12. Bright-eyed beauty once was she.—_Lucy Larcom._
13. Do men gather figs from thorns?—_Bible._
14. The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea.—_Gray._
15. These are the gardens of the desert.—_Bryant._
16. Soon on the hill’s steep verge he stood.—_Scott._
17. The Indian knows his place of rest far in the cedar
shade.—_Hemans._
18. Through all eternity, to Thee
A joyful song I’ll raise.—_Addison._
19. The uncertain vacillating temper common to all Indians now
began to declare itself.—_Parkman._
20. The fine English cavalry then advanced to support their
archers, and to attack the Scottish line.—_Scott._
21. So saying, from the ruined shrine he stept.—_Tennyson._
22. Yet Fortune was bending over him, just ready to let fall a
burden of gold.—_Hawthorne._
23. On the first day of his fasting,
Through the leafy woods he wandered.—_Longfellow._
24. Raising his head, he looked the lustrous stranger in the
face.—_Hawthorne._
25. At daybreak on the bleak sea-beach,
A fisherman stood aghast,
To see the form of a maiden fair
Lashed close to a drifting mast.—_Longfellow._
26. Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace
The day’s disasters in his morning face.—_Goldsmith._
27. All the livelong day, Oliver paced softly up and down the
garden, raising his eyes every instant to the sick
chamber, and shuddering to see the darkened
window.—_Dickens._
28. By Nebo’s lonely mountain,
On this side Jordan’s wave,
In a vale in the land of Moab,
There lies a lonely grave.—_Mrs. Alexander._
29. Wolfe had discovered a narrow path winding up the side of
the steep precipice from the river.—_Warburton._
30. Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.—_Gray._
31. The silent influence of Shakespeare’s poetry on millions of
young hearts in England, in Germany, in all the world,
shows the almost superhuman power of human
genius.—_Müller._
32. Now see him mounted once again
Upon his nimble steed,
Full slowly pacing o’er the stones,
With caution and good heed.—_Cowper._
33. By comparing the words of these inscriptions with many
others, the proper method of interpreting this peculiar
language was ascertained.—_Ontario Reader._
34. Failing in this, they set themselves, after their custom on
such occasions, to building a rude fort of their own in
the neighboring forest.—_Parkman._
35. I heard a brooklet gushing
From its rocky fountain near,
Down into the valley rushing,
So fresh and wondrous clear.—_Longfellow._
36. Up from the meadows rich with corn,
Clear in the cool September morn,
The clustered spires of Frederick stand
Green-walled by the hills of Maryland.—_Whittier._
37. No nightingale did ever chant
So sweetly to reposing bands
Of Travellers in some shady haunt
Among Arabian sands.—_Wordsworth._
38. The French, blown and exhausted, inferior beside in weight
both of man and horse, offered but a short
resistance.—_Lever._
39. Looking, looking for the mark,
Down the others came,
Struggling through the snowdrifts stark,
Calling out his name.—_Lushington._
40. A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard
In spring-time from the Cuckoo bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides.—_Wordsworth._
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=LESSON LXIII.=