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LESSON 153.
ENERGY--CRITICISM.
+Direction+.--_Expand these brief expressions into sentences full of long
words, and note the loss of energy_:--
1. To your tents, 0 Israel!
2. Up, boys, and at them!
3. Indeed!
4. Bah!
5. Don't give up the ship!
6. Murder will out.
7. Oh!
8. Silence there!
9. Hurrah!
10. Death or free speech!
11. Rascal!
12. No matter.
13. Least said, soonest mended.
14. Death to the tyrant!
15. I'll none of it.
16. Help, ho!
17. Shame on you!
18. First come, first served.
+Direction+.--_Condense each of these italicized expressions into one or
two words, and note the gain_:--
1. He _shuffled off this mortal coil_ yesterday.
2. The author surpassed all _those who were living at the same time with
him_.
3. To say that revelation is _a thing which there is no need of_ is to talk
wildly.
4. He _departed this life_.
5. Some say that ever _'gainst that season comes wherein our Saviour's
birth is celebrated_ this _bird of dawning_ singeth all night long.
+Direction+.--_Change these specific words to general terms, and note the
loss in energy_:---
1. Don't _fire_ till _you see the whites of their eyes_.
2. _Break down_ the _dikes_, give Holland back to _ocean_.
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