Exercise
Parse in full each adjective in these sentences:--
1. A thousand lives seemed concentrated in that one moment to
Eliza.
2. The huge green fragment of ice on which she alighted pitched
and creaked.
3. I ask nothing of you, then, but that you proceed to your end
by a direct, frank, manly way.
4. She made no reply, and I waited for none.
5. A herd of thirty or forty tall ungainly figures took their
way, with awkward but rapid pace, across the plain.
6. Gallantly did the lion struggle in the folds of his terrible
enemy, whose grasp each moment grew more fierce and secure, and
most astounding were those frightful yells.
7. This gave the young people entire freedom, and they enjoyed it
to the fullest extent.
8. I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
9. To every Roman citizen he gives, To every several man,
seventy-five drachmas.
10. Each member was permitted to entertain all the rest on his or
her birthday, on which occasion the elders of the family were
bound to be absent.
11. Instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the
bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are
immutably fishes, oxen, and dogs.
12. I know not what course others may take.
13. With every third step, the tomahawk fell.
14. What a ruthless business this war of extermination is!
15. I was just emerging from that many-formed crystal country.
16. On what shore has not the prow of your ships dashed?
17. The laws and institutions of his country ought to have been
more to him than all the men in his country.
18. Like most gifted men, he won affections with ease.
19. His letters aim to elicit the inmost experience and outward
fortunes of those he loves, yet are remarkably self-forgetful.
20. Their name was the last word upon his lips.
21. The captain said it was the last stick he had seen.
22. Before sunrise the next morning they let us out again.
23. He was curious to know to what sect we belonged.
24. Two hours elapsed, during which time I waited.
25. In music especially, you will soon find what personal benefit
there is in being serviceable.
26. To say what good of fashion we can, it rests on reality, and
hates nothing so much as pretenders.
27. Here lay two great roads, not so much for travelers that were
few, as for armies that were too many by half.
28. On whichever side of the border chance had thrown Joanna, the
same love to France would have been nurtured.
29. What advantage was open to him above the English boy?
30. Nearer to our own times, and therefore more interesting to
us, is the settlement of our own country.
31. Even the topmost branches spread out and drooped in all
directions, and many poles supported the lower ones.
32. Most fruits depend entirely on our care.
33. Even the sourest and crabbedest apple, growing in the most
unfavorable position, suggests such thoughts as these, it is so
noble a fruit.
34. Let him live in what pomps and prosperities he like, he is no
literary man.
35. Through what hardships it may bear a sweet fruit!
36. Whatsoever power exists will have itself organized.
37. A hard-struggling, weary-hearted man was he.
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