 | William Russell - Elocution - 1851 - 392 pages
...journey of a day." In long sentences the fall is more obvious, and commences farther from the close. "As we perceive the shadow to have moved along the dial, but did not perceive its moving; and it appears that the grass has grown, though nobody ever saw it grow : so the advances... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1854 - 398 pages
...journey of a day." In long sentences the fall is more obvious, and commences farthe.r from the close. " As we perceive the shadow to have moved along the dial, but did not perceive its moving; and it appears that the grass has grown, though nobody ever saw it -grow : so the advances... | |
 | John Wilson - English language - 1855 - 360 pages
...into clauses separated by semicolons, a colon should be used before the connecting word. EXAMPLES. 1. As we perceive the shadow to have moved along the dial, but did not see it moving ; and it appears that the grass has grown, though nobody ever Raw it grow : so the advances... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1855 - 768 pages
...involving two or more simple periods : " As we perceive the shadow to have moved along tho dial, tut did not perceive it moving; and it appears that the grass has grown, though notody' ever saw it grow ; so the advances we make in knowledge, as they consist of such minute steps,... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...little importance to the meaning, or those with which the auditor may be supposed to be pre-acquainted. As we perceive the shadow to have" moved along the...not perceive" it mo'Ving; and it appears that the generally be sufficient. Continnntive tone may therefore he considered u possessed of inflexion, but... | |
 | Walter William King - 1856 - 228 pages
...when a sentence can be divided into two parts, either part of which is divided by a semicolon : — "As we perceive the shadow to have moved along the...dial, but did not perceive it moving ; and it appears the grass has grown, though nobody saw it grow : so the advances we make in knowledge, as they consist... | |
 | John Wilson - English language - 1856 - 188 pages
...into clauses separated by semicolons, a colon should be used before the connecting word. EXAMPLES. 1. As we perceive the shadow to have moved along the dial, but did not see it moving; and it appears that the grass has grown, though nobody ever saw it grow : so the advances... | |
 | Richard Greene Parker - 1857 - 152 pages
...the woods, almost beyond the sound of city-chime, at intervals heard through the breezeless air. 235. As we perceive the shadow to have moved along the dial, but did not perceive its moving : and it appears that the grass has grown, though nobody ever saw it grow : so the advances... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1857 - 516 pages
...reasoning power, and is called a period. IX. The compound period, involving two or more .simple periods : " As we perceive the shadow to have moved along the dial, but did not see it moving ; and it appears that the grass has .grown, though nobody ever saw it grow ; so the advances... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - English language - 1857 - 470 pages
...the great divisions of sentences, when minor subdivisions occur that are separated by semicolons ; as', " We perceive the shadow to have moved along the dial, but did not see it moving ; we observe that the grass has grown, though it was impossible to see it grow : so the... | |
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As we perceive the shadow to have moved along the dial, but did not see it moving ; and it appears that the grass has grown, though nobody ever saw... 
