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[Sidenote: _Possessive with compound expressions._]


66. In compound expressions, containing words in apposition, a word

with a phrase, etc., the possessive sign is usually last, though

instances are found with both appositional words marked.


Compare the following examples of literary usage:--


Do not the Miss Prys, my neighbors, know the amount of my income,

the items of my _son's_, _Captain Scrapegrace's_, tailor's

bill--THACKERAY.


The world's pomp and power sits there on this hand: on that,

stands up for God's truth one man, the _poor miner Hans Luther's_

son.--CARLYLE.


They invited me in the _emperor their master's_ name.--SWIFT.


I had naturally possessed myself of _Richardson the painter's_

thick octavo volumes of notes on the "Paradise Lost."--DE

QUINCEY.


They will go to Sunday schools to teach classes of little

children the age of Methuselah or the dimensions of _Og the king

of Bashan's_ bedstead.--HOLMES.


More common still is the practice of turning the possessive into an

equivalent phrase; as, _in the name of the emperor their master_,

instead of _the emperor their master's name_.



[Sidenote: _Possessive and no noun limited._]


67. The possessive is sometimes used without belonging to any noun

in the sentence; some such word as _house_, _store_, _church_,

_dwelling_, etc., being understood with it: for example,--


Here at the _fruiterer's_ the Madonna has a tabernacle of fresh

laurel leaves.--RUSKIN.


It is very common for people to say that they are disappointed in

the first sight of _St. Peter's_.--LOWELL.


I remember him in his cradle at _St. James's_.--THACKERAY.


Kate saw that; and she walked off from the _don's_.--DE QUINCEY.




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