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... pirates in the Mediterranean than in all the other waters put together. In the Mediterranean they had the most part of the trade of Europe for their quarry; while the coasts of Africa, and the islands ... accustomed to the law and order of the present day to understand the dangers which threatened the Jacobean trav- eller. The seas swarmed with pirates; so that f...

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... large firms, they are commit- ted to their careers and eager to move ahead. They live together. They say they are in love, and they seem to be. But they are cool about it, and about the possibility ... that the business of the storyteller is to ask questions, not to answer them. That truth applies sometimes to the essayist, who may wish to sug- gest a judgment rather tha...

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... 299 Carter, Hodding, 70, 112, 1 63, 279, 30 5, 33 3, 39 3 Catton, Bruce, 31 1 Cherry, Colin, 2 13 Chesterton, G. K., 57, 72, 139 , 141, 176,180,207,216,221,264,297, 32 6, 33 1, 428 Collingwood, Robin ... 36 2 similes in, 36 1 subjective, 35 5 ff Diacritics, 431 Diction, 241 ff repetitious, 278 unusual, 32 5 ff Dictionaries, 33 6 ff general, 33 6 ff thesauri, 33 9...

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... down to the depth STOPS 39 9 optional between the final coordinated pair, the choice de- pending on the preference of the writer or the policy of an editor. The first of these examples uses the ... the steps before THE HUMAN FACTORY, where little robots gathered and shoveled the food from chamber to chamber of the body. They had put me out into the streets, I...

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... summoning all to pray for the SOLlls of the dead. Morris Bishop Images can appeal to other senses: to smell, taste, touch, even to the muscular sense of movement and balance (these wake 1 ... transitive verb meaning to clothe, to rlrocc 32 0 DICTION The people for miles around Hiroshima, in the fields, in the mountains, and on the bay, saw a light that was brilli...

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... uncommon words to draw attention 284 DICTION Nucleonics investigates the smaller particles that go to make up the nucleus of the atom. BETTER: . that make up the nucleus of the atom. A special ... deal about such drifters: their lack of will and purpose, the futility with which they float through life, their incapacity to anchor themselves to anything solid, their inevita...

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... all these cases the writers select words for their refer- ential value, to make clear what is in their minds. The histo- rian, aiming to be factually accurate, and the philosopher, aiming to be ... elegance, the name is intended to overcome masculine resistance to toilet- ries as "sissy" (or perhaps to appeal to women, who buy most of these products for their m...

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... with. CONCISE These ideas are already old-fashioned, infrequently met with. WORDY The women of the settlement would gather together at one home to work on the quilt. They would bring their children with them ... and spend the entire day, chatting gaily as they worked. CONCISE The women of the settlement would gather together at one home to work on the quilt, bringing their c...

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... proof—these are among the constants, the themes of the Story. Elizabeth Bowen Notice how Bowen uses these to sum up all the preceding nouns and to act as the subject of the sentence. (These, ... happens in that sentence is that the accumulation is gathered between dashes and intrudes into the middle of the main sentence ("When they sat for a photograph together i...

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