17. _Wretched people_ shiver in _their_ lair of straw.
18. The _soldier_ is giving way to the _husbandman_.
19. _Swords_ flashed, and _bullets_ fell.
20. His banner led the _spearmen_ no more.
+Remark+.--If what is begun as a metaphor is not completed as begun, but is
completed by a part of another metaphor or by plain language, we have what,
is called a _mixed metaphor_. It requires great care to avoid this very
common error.
+Direction+.--_Correct these errors_:--
1. The _devouring_ fire _uprooted_ the stubble.
2. The _brittle_ thread of life may be _cut_ asunder.
3. All the _ripe fruit_ of three-score years was _blighted_ in a day.
4. _Unravel_ the _obscurities_ of this _knotty_ question.
5. We must apply the _axe_ to the _fountain_ of this evil.
6. The man _stalks_ into court like a _motionless_ statue, with the _cloak_
of hypocrisy in his _mouth_.
7. The thin _mantle_ of snow _dissolved_.
8. I smell a _rat_, I see him _brewing_ in the air, but I shall yet _nip
him in the bud_.
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LESSON 155.
VARIETY IN EXPRESSION.
+Remark+.--You learned in Lessons 52, 53, 54 that the usual order may give
way to the transposed; in 55, 56, that one kind of simple sentence may be
changed to another; in 57, that simple sentences may be contracted; in 61,
that adjectives may be expanded into clauses; in 67, that an adverb clause
may stand before, between the parts of, and after, the independent clause;
in 68, that an adverb clause may be contracted to a participle, a
participle phrase, an absolute phrase, a prepositional phrase, that it may
be contracted by the omission of words, and may be changed to an adjective
clause or phrase; in 73, that a noun clause as subject may stand last, and
as object complement may stand first, that it may be made prominent, and
may be contracted; in 74, that direct quotations and questions may be
changed to indirect, and indirect to direct; in 77, that compound sentences
may be formed out of simple sentences, may be contracted to simple
sentences, and may be changed to complex sentences; in 79, that
participles, absolute phrases, and infinitives may be expanded into
different kinds of clauses; and, in 130, that a verb may change its voice.
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