--_Emerson_.
2. The Angel of Life winds our brains up once for all, then closes the
case, and gives the key into the hands of the Angel of
Resurrection.--_Holmes_.
3. I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the
Old.--_Canning_.
4. The prominent nose of the New Englander is evidence of the constant
linguistic exercise of that organ.--_Warner_.
5. Every Latin word has its function as noun or verb or adverb ticketed
upon it.--_Earle_.
6. The Alps, piled in cold and still sublimity, are an image of
despotism.--_Phillips_.
7. I want my husband to be submissive without looking so.--_Gail Hamilton_.
8. I love to lose myself in other men's minds.--_Lamb_.
9. Cheerfulness banishes all anxious care and discontent, soothes and
composes the passions, and keeps the soul in a perpetual
calm.--_Addison_.
10. To discover the true nature of comets has hitherto proved beyond the
power of science.
+Explanation+.--_Beyond the power of science = impossible_, and is
therefore an attribute complement. The preposition _beyond_ shows the
relation, in sense, of _power_ to the subject phrase.
11. Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by
turning somersets in the air.--_Longfellow_.
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