Identifier: journeysthroughb10sylv (find matches)
Title: Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Sylvester, Charles Herbert
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: Chicago : Bellows-Reeve
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ll-ing for volunteers? Does he mean the organizedmilitia, or simply the able-bodied men in thatvicinity? Began to beg me not to turn out. Is turn outa slang phrase here, or is it a term commonly usedin speaking of the assemblage of the militia? It was mighty hard to go against her argu-ments. Does the word mighty show refinement?What word would be better? Does the phrase goagainst look well in a book? Told her that if every man would wait till hiswife got willing to let him go to ^var, there wouldbe no fighting done until we would all be killed inour houses. Is the word tcoidd as it appears thefirst time used properly? Is should the right wordto use? Is got xicilling correct English? Does theword until express the meaning Crockett intends toconvej^? If there would be no fighting done untilthey were all killed in their houses, could there beany fighting done afterward? What words shouldbe used in place of until? Is the word would usedproperly the second time it appears in the sentence?
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Ci.osK Read I x( J 247 Seeing I was bent on it. Can you findauthority for using the phrase bent on it to meandetenuined to do it? The trutli is my dander was up and notliingbut war should bring it right again. What doesthe dictionary say about the use of the word dander?Do you sup))ose it was a common word amongCrocketts friends? Is the word should pro))erlyused in this sentence? Is the proper word would?Is it a common mistake even now to use would forshould and shoidd for would? How may we knowwhich word to use? When the men were paraded, a lawyer by thename of Jones addressed us, informing us he wishedto raise a company, and that then the men shouldmeet and elect their offcers. Who were the menthat were paraded? Was Crockett among them?Whom did Jones address? When Crockett usesthe word men and the word us, twice in the samesentence is his meaning perfectly clear? I believe I was about the second or third manthat stepped out, but on marching up and down theregiment a few times we fou

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