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"A work on english grammar and composition"


"Between such dictionaries as Worcester's, The Imperial, and Webster's."--
_B. G. White_. "Betwixt the slender boughs came glimpses of her ivory
neck."--_Bryant_. With what clumsy circumlocutions would our speech be
filled if prepositions could never slip the leash of their etymology! What
simple and graceful substitute could be found for the last phrase in this
sentence, for instance: There were forty desks in the room with ample space
_between them_?
"We observe that _between_ is not restricted to two."--_Imperial
Dictionary_. "In all senses _between_ has been, from its earliest
appearance, extended to more than two. It is still the only word available
to express the relation of a thing to many surrounding things severally and
individually--_among_ expressing a relation to them collectively and
vaguely: we should not say, 'The choice lies among the three candidates,'
or 'to insert a needle among the closed petals of a flower.'"--_The New
English Dictionary_.
We have collected hundreds of instances of _between_ used by good writers
with three or more.
Guard against such expressions as _between each_ page; a choice _between
one_ of several.]
+Direction+.--_We give below a few words with the prepositions which
usually accompany them.


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