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grotesque especially differ from the fanciful or fantastic? 4. How does visionary differ from fanciful?
EXAMPLES.
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Come see the north wind's masonry, ... his wild work; So ----, so savage, naught cares he For number or
proportion.
What ---- tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver
to be gone!
Plays such ---- tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep.
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FANCY (page 167).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an intellectual fancy? 2. How does a conceit differ from a fancy? a conception from both? 3. What
is an emotional or personal fancy? 4. What is fancy as a faculty of the mind?
EXAMPLES.
Tell me where is ---- bred; Or in the heart or in the head?
Elizabeth united the occasional ---- of her sex with that sense and sound policy in which neither man nor
woman ever excelled her.
That fellow seems to me to possess but one ----, and that is a wrong one.
If she were to take a ---- to anybody in the house, she would soon settle, but not till then.
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FAREWELL (page 168).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what language do farewell and good-by belong etymologically? How do they differ? 2. From what
language have adieu and congé been adopted into English? 3. What is the special significance of congé? 4.
What are valediction and valedictory?
EXAMPLES.
---- my paper's out so nearly I've only room for yours sincerely.
The train from out the castle drew, But Marmion stopped to bid ----.
----! a word that must be, and hath been-- A sound which makes us linger;--yet------.
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FEAR (page 168).
QUESTIONS.
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1. What is the generic term of this group? 2. What is fear? Is it sudden or lingering? In view of what class of
dangers? 3. What is the etymological meaning of horror? What does the word signify in accepted usage? 4.
What are the characteristics of affright, fright, and terror? 5. How is fear contrasted with fright and terror in
actual or possible effects? 6. What is panic? What of the numbers affected by it? 7. What is dismay? How
does it compare with fright and terror?
EXAMPLES.
Even the bravest men may be swept along in a sudden ----.
With much more ---- I view the fight than thou that mak'st the fray.
Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No ---- lest he should swerve or
faint.
The ghastly spectacle filled every beholder with ----.
A lingering ---- crept upon him as he waited in the darkness.
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FEMININE (page 169).
QUESTIONS.
1. How are female and feminine discriminated? 2. What is the difference between a female voice and a
feminine voice? 3. How are womanly and womanish discriminated in use?
EXAMPLES.
Notice, too, how precious are these ---- qualities in the sick room.
The demand for closet-room is no mere ---- fancy, but the good sense of the sex.
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FETTER (page 169).
QUESTIONS.
1. What are fetters in the primary sense? 2. What are manacles and handcuffs designed to fasten or hold?
gyves? 3. What are shackles and what are they intended to fasten or hold? 4. Of what material are all these
restraining devices commonly composed? By what general name are they popularly known? 5. What are
bonds and of what material composed? 6. Which of these words are used in the metaphorical sense?
EXAMPLES.
But first set my poor heart free, Bound in those icy ---- by thee.
Slaves can not breathe in England . . . They touch our country, and their ---- fall.
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FEUD (page 170).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a feud? Of what is it used? 2. Is a quarrel in word or act? contention? strife? contest? 3. How does