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67. It is the business of the police to ---- vice.
INSURE, SECURE.
68. Will you ---- my factory against fire?
69. For woods before and hills behind --it both from rain and wind.
70. The cargoes of ocean steamers are generally fully ----d.
71. The city is ----d by strong fortifications.
72. How are we to ---- to labor its due honor?
73. To enjoy the benefits which the liberty of the press ----s, we must submit to the evils which it creates.
INVESTIGATE, INQUIRE.
74. A committee was appointed to ---- the needs of the laboring cla.s.ses.
75. I will ---- his name and rank.
76. Edison has been busy ---- ing the nature of electricity.
77. A commission was appointed to ---- the causes of the strike.
LET, LEAVE.
78. Please ---- me take you to town.
79. We ---- that to the judgment of the umpire.
80. Pharaoh said, "I will ---- you go."
81. Why do you--- your house go to ruin?
82. Peace I ---- with you.
83. I will ---- you know my decision to-morrow.
84. Please ---- me out at the corner of Twenty-third Street.
85. ---- us free to act.
86. ---- go!
87. ---- the beggar in.
88. ---- us ---- him to himself.
89. He ---- the cat out of the bag.
LOCATE, FIND.
90. The missing man has at last been ----d by the police in Kansas City.
91. The part of the city in which the mint is ----d.
PERSUADE, ADVISE.
92. Almost thou ----st me to be a Christian.
93. I ----d him to take a walk every day, but I could not ---- him to do it.
94. Columbus was ----d to give up the thought of sailing westward in search of the Indies.
95. When in mid-ocean, Columbus was ----d to alter his course.
PREDICATE, PREDICT.
96. This very result was ----d two years ago.
97. Ambition may be ----d us the predominant trait in Napoleon's character.
98. He ----s that the month of July will be rainy.
99. Disaster to the voyage was ----d by the enemies of Columbus.
PRESCRIBE, PROSCRIBE.
100. Sylla and Marius ----d each other's adherents.
101. The doctor ----d quinine in doses of four grains each.
102. It is easier to ---- principles of conduct than to follow them.
103. The Puritans ----d theatres.
104. The number of electors is ----d by law.
PURPOSE, PROPOSE.
105. I don't ---- to let you escape so easily.
106. I ---- that we go boating.
107. We ---- d to go to-morrow, but I fear the rain will prevent us.
108. I ---- to work hard this year.
109. Ba.s.sanio ----d to pay the bond thrice over, but Shylock declined the offer, for he ----d, if possible, to lake Antonio's life.
REPULSE, REPEL.
110. He gently ---- their entreaties.
111. The charge of Pickett's troops at Gettysburg was ----d.
START, BEGIN, COMMENCE.
112. Rosalind tells Orlando to ---- his courts.h.i.+p, and he wishes to ---- with a kiss.
113. The _Spectator_ was ----(d) by Steele.
114. We have ----(d) Homer's "Iliad."
115. We have ----(d) to find out our ignorance.
116. We ----d to feel that perhaps Darcy is not very bad, after all.
117. We ----(d) in an omnibus at seven o'clock.
118. She has ----(d) to study French.
119. Franklin's voyage was ----(d) under unpleasant circ.u.mstances.
120. It ----(d) to rain in torrents.
121. The play has ----(d).
122. Hostilities have ----(d).
123. The people of Philadelphia were so much pleased with Franklin's pavement that they ----(d) paving all the streets.
SUSPECT, EXPECT, ANTIc.i.p.aTE.
124. I ---- that my grandfather was a wild lad.
125. I ---- great pleasure from our a.s.sociation in this work.
126. The burglars ---- that detectives are on their tracks, but they ---- to elude the officers by hiding in the country.
127. I was determined to ---- their fury by first falling into a pa.s.sion myself.
128. I ---- that my father will come on a late train to-night.
129. I ---- that the rogue thinks himself safe from detection.
130. The death of the general is hourly ----ed.
[106] In some of the sentences one verb or another is allowable, according to the meaning intended.
EXERCISE LXI.
_Tell why the italicized words in the following sentences are misused, and subst.i.tute for them better expressions_:--
1. The death of his son greatly _effected_ him.
2. The Prince of Wales does not _propose_ to send a challenge to the owner of the yacht Puritan.
3. He is _learning_ me to ride a bicycle.
4. I cannot _predicate_ what may hereafter happen.
5. Will you _loan_ me your sled for this afternoon?
6. It is even _stated_ on the best of authority that the Minneapolis is capable of attaining a speed of twenty-four knots an hour, and of keeping it up.
