Précis Writing for American Schools: Methods of Abridging, Summarizing, Condensing, with Copious ExercisesSamuel Thurber Little, Brown and Company, 1924 - 150 էջ |
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... seemed to think that it was a common fowl . Of course the thing to do was to bark and to frighten it into flight . But barking had no effect whatever except to make the dreadful eyes glow more brightly and to produce a sort of sharp ...
... seemed to think that it was a common fowl . Of course the thing to do was to bark and to frighten it into flight . But barking had no effect whatever except to make the dreadful eyes glow more brightly and to produce a sort of sharp ...
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... upturned faces with the fire glow upon it ; and up there , against the background of black smoke that poured from roof and attic , the boy clinging to the narrow ledge , so far up that it seemed humanly 42 PRÉCIS WRITING.
... upturned faces with the fire glow upon it ; and up there , against the background of black smoke that poured from roof and attic , the boy clinging to the narrow ledge , so far up that it seemed humanly 42 PRÉCIS WRITING.
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... seemed humanly impossible that help could ever come . But even then it was coming . Up from the street , while the crew of the truck company were laboring with the heavy extension - ladder that at its longest stretch was many feet too ...
... seemed humanly impossible that help could ever come . But even then it was coming . Up from the street , while the crew of the truck company were laboring with the heavy extension - ladder that at its longest stretch was many feet too ...
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... seemed to think they made the wind as they wagged forward and back . Remember what I say . The next time you see a tree waving in the wind , recollect that it is the tail of a great underground , many - armed , polypus - like creature ...
... seemed to think they made the wind as they wagged forward and back . Remember what I say . The next time you see a tree waving in the wind , recollect that it is the tail of a great underground , many - armed , polypus - like creature ...
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... seemed as if our armies marched only to defeat . We could have avoided all this suffering simply by shrinking from strife . And if we had thus avoided it , we should have shown that we were weaklings , and that we were unfit to stand ...
... seemed as if our armies marched only to defeat . We could have avoided all this suffering simply by shrinking from strife . And if we had thus avoided it , we should have shown that we were weaklings , and that we were unfit to stand ...
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Էջ 146 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Էջ 108 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it...
Էջ 124 - Oft, in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me : The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain hath bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Էջ 145 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...
Էջ 146 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
Էջ 121 - THE mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel ; And the former called the latter ' Little Prig '. Bun replied, ' You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace 10 To occupy my place.
Էջ 142 - THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's...
Էջ 26 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom...
Էջ 25 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings; Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Էջ 133 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man ,' Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.