3. _Three hundred men_ held the hosts of _Xerxes_ at bay.
4. I _sat_ at her _cradle_, I _followed_ her _hearse_.
5. Their _daggers_ have _stabbed_ Caesar.
6. When I'm _mad_, I _weigh a ton_.
7. _Burn_ Moscow, _starve back_ the _invaders_.
8. There's no use in _crying over spilt milk_.
9. In proportion as men delight in _battles_ and _bull-fights_ will they
punish by _hanging, burning_, and the _rack_.
+Direction+.--_Change these general terms to specific words, and note the
gain in energy_:--
1. Anne Boleyn was _executed_.
2. It were better for him that a _heavy weight were fastened to him_ and
that he were _submerged_ in _the waste of waters_.
3. _The capital of the chosen people_ was _destroyed_ by _a Roman general_.
4. Consider the _flowers_ how they _increase in size_.
5. Caesar was _slain_ by _the conspirators_.
6. The _cities of the plain_ were _annihilated_.
+Direction+.--_Arrange these words, phrases, and clauses in the order of
their strength, placing the strongest last, and note the gain in energy_:--
1. The nations of the earth repelled, surrounded, pursued, and resisted
him.
2. He was no longer consul nor citizen nor general nor even an emperor, but
a prisoner and an exile.
3. I shall die an American; I live an American; I was born an American.
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