Snow, sandstone, impossibility, widower, opinion, exclamation, passer-by, misunderstanding, inactivity, snowball, kingdom, anticyclone, mother-of-pearl, immobility, might, warmth, succession, ex-president, nurse, misdeed, wisdom, blackbird, attention, policeman, merry-go-round, girlhood, usefulness, fortune, friendship, statesman, brother-in-law, population, fellow-boarder, smelling-salt.

1. A kitten likes to play. 2. A violet does not smell so sweet as a lily of the valley. 3. Have you bought an apple for your child? 4. Here is a letter to be posted. 5. He ate a spoonful of broth and a sandwich. 6. I must buy a postcard. 7. She did not bring me a magazine, she brought me a newspaper. 8. She made a step towards him. 9. In the bedroom a candle was burning. 10. Did she ever lend you a book?

Pretty, bushy, weather-stained, thoughtful, hard-hearted, illegitimate, sober, non-party, low-bred, improbable, sceptical, counter-revolutionary, careworn, beloved, wicked, disobedient, long-legged, regular, water-proof, large, well-timed, homeless, shaky, courageous, panic-stricken, blindfold, Portuguese, newly-baked, antique, peace-making, forlorn, illegible, abundant, red-haired, small, deep-blue, bookish, snow-white, respectable-looking.

1. There's nothing for any of us to do.

(Snow)

2. Both these people were resolved to treat Mr. Polly very well, and to help his exceptional incompetence in every possible way.

(Wells)

3. Tom presented himself before Aunt Polly, who was sitting by an open window in a pleasant rearward apartment, which was bed-room, break fast-room, dining-room, and library combined.

(Twain)

4. Such were the reflections of Felix before the brass tablet.

(Galsworthy)

5. It was the sort of solemn warning that a sanguine man gives to others, because he ought to give it to himself.

(Snow)

6. Elizabeth and George talked and found each other delightful.

(Aldington)

7. What we need is a higher and purer political morality.

(Dreiser)

8. She hesitated a moment, and then sat down beside me, and laid her hand on mine.

(Dickens)

9. The uniform had been cut for a stouter person than myself, but one, fortunately, of approximately the same height.

(Clark)

10. "I didn't know anything about it," cried Charlie indignantly. "I came to see you about something else."

(Priestley)

11. What about this coal strike? Will it ruin the country as the papers say? Isn't it a foolish thing on both sides?

(Galsworthy)

12. She sat in a state of irresponsible exaltation, watching him, with that strange passive cruelty which is natural and proper in her sex and age.

(Wells)

13. None of us except Collingwood knew what the Prime Minister thought of Roger or his policy.

(Snow)

14. There were. some aviators in the compartment who did not think much of me.

(Hemingway)

15. Then a guarded voice said, "Who goes there?"

(Twain)

16. Husbands and wives never listen when they talk to each other, only when the other is talking to somebody else.

(Fowler)

17. Let me tell you something.

(Priestley)

18. There was at least one person in the world who knew that he was alive and attached some importance to the fact.

(Saroyan)

19. What are you talking about?

(Snow)

20. I can only say what I think.

(Hemingway)

21. He seemed to get prouder and prouder over each item of his own deficiency.

1. The afternoon was full of transfiguring sunshine, some Judas trees were abloom in the villa gardens...

(Wells) 2.

I did not mind for myself. I should not have cared if had been alone.

(Du Maurier)

3....his soul was all ablaze with bliss...

(Twain)

4. We are not afraid of the truth.

(Gow and D’Usseau)

5. The rest of his costurne... were the things he had worn at the funeral of his father. So nearly akin are human joy and sorrow.

(Wells)

6. The lieutenant... Jay asleep on the other bed.

(Hemingway)

7. He lit a pool of paraffin on the scullery floor and instantly a nest of wavering blue flame became agog for prey.

(Wells)

8, He [Mr. Polly] rattled and stormed and felt the parlour already ablaze behind him.

(Wells)

9. But Mr. Polly's establishment looked more like a house afire than most houses on fire contrive to look from start to finish.

(Wells)

10. You know- everything there is to know about me. There's not much, because I have not been alive for wery long.

(Du Maurier)

П. He did not answer. I was aware again of that feeling of discomfort.

(Du Maurier)

Laura was terribly nervous. Tossing the velvet ribbon over her shoulder, she said to a woman standing by, "Is this Mrs. Scott's house?" and the woman, smiling queerly, said, "It is, my lass." Oh, to be away from this! She actually said, "Help me God!" as she walked up the tiny path and knocked. To be away from these staring eyes, or to be covered up in anything, one of those women's shawls even! I'll just leave the basket and go, she decided. I shan't even wait for it to be emptied.

1. Martin Eden had been mastered by curiosity all his days.

(London)

2. "What did the-master say exactly?" "Well, of course, I wasn't supposed to hear."

(Christie)

3. Well, come on, shall I go, or shan't I? Half past three—it's quite a good time.

(Christie)

4 "Is Mrs Oliver at home?" asked Rhoda.

(Christie)

5. There was a curious expression on her face—a mingling of grim determination and of strange indecision.

(Christie) 6.

Yes, here he was, without Savina, on his way to total disillusion about the biggest research development of his time.

(Wilson)

7. Suddenly the door opened and admitted the Baron. Followed a complete and deathlike silence.

(Mansfield)

8. But never, never could he have anticipated that evening, some months after the birth of their child.

(Cronin)

9. However, not for the world would he be different from the others.

(Cronin)

10. Not often did he unbend to his servants, but as the butler tucked the rug round his knees he spoke to him.

(Cronin)

11. This morning, however, he was scarcely in the mood for one of those long conversations which so often beguiled the tedious hours. Nor could he bring himself to glance at the lesson books.

(Cronin),

12. Jose did not answer. Fretfully the Consul shifted his position.

(Cronin)

13. So immersed was the little boy that he did not hear the car.

(Cronin)

14. No sooner had they disappeared than Nicholas heard the sound of clattering footsteps.

(Cronin)

15. Not for an instant did he believe that Nicholas spoke the truth.

(Cronin)

16. On they went. Once Alvin let out a sharp exclamation.

(Cronin)

17. He'd been one of those fair babies that everybody took for a girl. Silvery fair curls he had, blue eyes and a little freckle like a diamond on one side of his nose.

(Mansfield)

18. Outside, waiting at the back entrance, was a tall, well-proportioned youth of 19 years old.

(Cronin)

19. Up the staircase he went, falling down, picking himself up again, feeling no hurt.

(Cronin)

20. Yet not for the world would he have revealed the strange inexplicable bitterness which rankled within his breast.

1. It was high summer, and the hay harvest was almost over.

(Lawrence)

2. All the rooms were brightly lighted, but there seemed to be complete silence in the house.

(Murdoch)

3. One small group was playing cards, another sat about a table and drank, or, tiring of that, adjourned to a large room to dance to the music of the victrola or player-piano,

(Dreiser)

4. His eyes were bloodshot and heavy, his face a deadly white, and his body bent as if with age.

(Dickens)

5. He only smiled, however, and there was comfort in his hearty rejoinder, for there seemed to be a whole sensible world behind it.

(Priestley)

6. You'll either sail this boat correctly or you'll never go out with me again.

(Dreiser)

7. Time passed, and she came to no conclusion, nor did any opportunities come her way for making a closer study of Mischa.

(Murdoch)

8. She often enjoyed Annette's company, yet the child made her nervous.

(Murdoch)

9. She ran through another set of rooms, breathless, her feet scarcely touching the surface of the soft carpets; then a final doorway suddenly and unexpetedly let her out into the street.

(Murdoch)

10. It was early afternoon, but very dark outside, and the lamps had already been turned on.

(Murdoch)

11. A large number of expensive Christmas cards were arrayed on the piano; while upon the walls dark evergreens, tied into various clever swags of red and silver ribbon, further proclaimed the season.

(Murdoch)

12. Brangwen never smoked cigarettes, yet he took the one offered, fumbling painfully with thick fingers, blushing to the roots of his hair.

(Lawrence)

1. Cowperwood realized... that he __ making a very remarkable confession, (is, was)

(Dreiser)

2. She scarcely realized what __ happening, (is, was)

(Dreiser)

3. Then all at once he remembered what the program __ be. (will, would)

(Warren)

4. Little Hans was very much distressed at times, as he was afraid his flowers __ think he — forgotten them, (will, would; has, had)

(Wilde)

5. Rosa told herself that this __ the day that __ decide her fate, (is, was, will, would)

(Murdoch)

6. She realised that he __ trying to convey to her that he __ lonely, (is, was; is, was)

(Dreiser) 7.

Mrs. Sohlberg felt that this __ going to be a wonderful evening, (is, was)

(Dreiser)

8. He felt sure he __ sleep now. (shall, should)

(Eliot)

9. He thought how beautifull and serene their life __ be. (will, would)

(Warren)

10. I was thinking that it __ be interesting to start a little gas company in one of these outlying villages that __ growing so fast, and see if we __ not make some money out of it. (may, might; are, were; can, could)

(Dreiser)

11. Each fresh noise crept through her senses like an enemy who __ found a gap in the walls of a beleaguered city, (has, had)

(Bennett)

12. Lunch came just as they were off Sheerness. He didn't feel so hungry as he thought he __ be. (shall, should)

(Jerome K. Jerome)

13. He knew that in a week or two, at most a month, the actual campaign __ begin, (will, would)

(Mailer)

14. When I found Mr. Bennett __ left his house, I thought I __ find him here. Of course, he had told me that he __ consult you. (has, had; shall, should; will, would)

(Qonan Doyle)

15. Brother Sumpter asked Jack Harrick how he __ to day. (is, was)

(Warren)

16. We got to Waterloo at eleven and asked where the elevenfive __ from. The porter who took our things thought it __ go from number two platform, while another porter __ heard a rumour that it __ go from number one. The station-master, on the other hand, was convinced that it __ start from the local. We went upstairs and asked the traffic superintendent, and he told us that he __ just seen it at number three platform, (starts, started; will, would; has, had; will, would; will, would; has, had)

1. "You ought to be grateful," he __ her in his light cocksure conceited manner.

(Greene)

2. He __ I must talk with your friend.

(Marryai)

3. "Look at me, Gretta," he __ her, patting her.cheek with his hand.

(CcUdxuell)

4. I __ I would write to him to-morrow.

(Marryat)

5. They met some people soon after they had got inside, who __ they had been there [in the maze] for three quarters of an hour, and had had about enough of it. Harris __ them they could follow him, if they liked... They __ it was very kind of him, and fell behind, and followed.

(Jerome K. Jerome)

6. Harris kept on turning to the right, but it seemed a long way, and his cousin __ he supposed it was a very big maze. "Oh, one of the largest in Europe," __ Harris.

(Jerome K. Jerome)

7. Harris __ he thought it was a very fine maze.

(Jerome K. Jerome)

8. The man __ he would go and consult his master.

(Jerome K. Jerome)

9. Fox __ me that you were here!

(Wilson)

10. She __ she would — us all about it the next time we met.