which he, and not we, is responsible; or again, we may visit our indignation upon him)
He anticipated much towards Mary's recovery in her return to Japan.–Sladen. (anticipate...from)
But both Governments have now requested Washington to be chosen as the place of meeting.–Times. (requested that Washington should)
For as its author in later years told the writer of this article, he had studied war for nine years before he put the pen to the paper.–Times. (Put pen to paper. This looks like imitation French; it is certainly not English)
4. The meaning of an idiom is mistaken without confusion with another.
For days and days, in such moods, he would stay within his cottage, never darkening the door or seeing other face than his own inmates.–Trollope. (To darken the door is always to enter as a visitor, never to go out)
5. Some miscellaneous and unclassified violations are added, mostly without further comment than italics, to remind sanguine learners that there are small pitfalls in every direction.
If I did not have the most thorough dependence on your good sense and high principles, I should not speak to you in this way.—Trollope.
Japan, while desiring the inassacre of her own and Russia's subjects to be brought to an end, has nevertheless every interest that the war should go on.–Times.
The unpublished state, of which only an extremely few examples are in existence.–Times.
Once I jested her about it.–Crockett.
It is significant to add that when Mrs. Chesnut died in 1886 her servants were with her.–Times.
Herring boats, the drapery of whose black suspended nets contrasted with picturesque effect the white sails of the larger vessels.–S. Ferrier.
It is at least incumbent to be scrupulously accurate.–Times. (The metaphor in incumbent is so much alive that upon—is never dispensed with)
A measure according Roman Catholic clergymen who have passed through the local seminaries but have not yet passed the prescribed Russian language test to hold clerical appointments.–Times.
There will be established in this free England a commercial tyranny the like of which will not be inferior to the tyrannical Inquisition of the Dark Ages.–Spectator.
