Verbal Pitfalls: a Manual of 1500 Words Commonly Misused ... Arranged Alphabetically, With 3000 References And Quotations, And the Ruling of the Dictionaries
Verbal Pitfalls: a Manual of 1500 Words Commonly Misused ... Arranged Alphabetically, With 3000 References And Quotations, And the Ruling of the Dictionaries
Bardeen, C. W. (Charles William), 1847-1924
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I lie upon the bed (rest). ** I laid myself upon the bed (action). I lay upon the bed (rest). " I have laid myself upon the bed (action). I have lain upon the bed (rest). "A hen lays her eggs (action). A ship lies at wharf (rest). The murdered Lincoln lay in state (rest); the people laid the crime upon the rebels (action)." a 185, x 113. tt 498, s 97, c 36. r 345, i 20, g27. ** Some years ago an old lady consulted an eccen- tric Boston physician, and, in describing her disease, said, * The trut...h, Doctor, is that I can neither lay nor set.* * Then, Madame,' was the reply, * I would respectfully suggest the propriety of roosting.'" r 345. But the rude physician was half as ignorant as his patient. Hens sit Tiesirik (for teach), x 114, g 28. *' This use of lea7*n is found in respectable writers, but it is now deemed improper, as well as inelegant." Wb. Digitized by Google L^AY LECTURE. 123 Leave (without an object). " To wind up a story with, * Then he ^fiy is as bad as to say, then he sloped— worse, for tiUyped is recognized slang." a 134, r 354, tt 499, d 128.
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