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With the cold caution of a coward's spleen.

Which fears not guilt but always seeks a screen.

The clumsy kitchen clock click-clicked.

32. g.

-mechanic

geese gig egg girl gave gag g'arb rug g'uide gog gall goose good goad gown gules-guerdon gherkin, gimlet gibber—auger tiger sago elgin.

He gave a guinea and he got a groat.

A giddy giggling girl her kinsfolks' plague her manners vulgar and her converse vague.

33. ng.

king ring wing, gang fang pang, hung tongue sung, gong wrong song-ringing longing, harpstring lustring- anger linger stronger younger banker anchor thinking sprinkling.

Dividing and gliding and sliding and sprinkling and twinkling and wrinkling.

34. sh.

shire dish share dash shard tush shine shone pshaw shoon bush sure -chagrin pacha sugar shaster, pension nation, asia conscience, issue fissurecharlatan chivalry, showery suretyship-association pro

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O shame where is thy blush.

The weak-eyed bat with short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing.

35. zh.

jet jeu jean jeune, (Fr.) — seizure leisure, vision pleasure, osier fusion - adhesion decision, transition abscission, explosion contusion.

A roseate blush with soft suffusion divulged her gentle mind's confusion.

36. ch.

cheap niche, fetch chirp, chat larch, touch chine, notch torch, choice chew-cheerly richly, chamber truncheon - charity chichester.

Your choice is not so rich in worth as beauty.

His speech was like a tangled chain.

37. j.

jeer gin edge jerk, gaol badge, jar judge, jibe jot, joy jaw, doge june -ginger jailer, jocund joyful-oblige diverge, suggest jejune.

O Jephtha judge of Israel what a treasure hadst thou.
Three thousand ducats due unto the Jew.

38. r-.

This element should have but one articulation and one vocule. The rattle, commonly called the rolling of the r, is to be avoided, except, perhaps, for imitation, in bantering humor; e. g., "and then anon drrrrrrrrums in his ear."

reap reel, rid rim, rent rest, ray rate, rat ran, wrath raft, rye right, rub rug, rod rob, raw wrought, room rouge, rook root, roe roach, rout round, rue rule raiment rhubarb, rural wrestle around erect, enrich unroll — interruption sudorific.

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Ruin seize thee ruthless king.

The royal tree hath left us royal fruit.

39. -r.

regulate ruminate

This element has no proper vocule, for its articulation is hardly close enough to make a vocule possible. Its open vocality makes it sometimes a syllable by itself. (§ 7. 3. (b); § 8. 1 and 4.)

ear fear here, her sir fir, bare care heir, far bar mar, cur burr spur, fire hire tire, nor sort cord, war wart swart, core four soar, bower sour flour, your lure pure — revere refer, repair retard, return retire, resort reward, restore renewer feared heard, paired marred, spurred mired, poured soured.

Far from mortal cares retreating sordid hopes and vain desires. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear the armed rhinoceros or the Hyrcan tiger.

40. 7.

The nearly open vocality of this element frequently makes a syllable without a tonic. Such is the case in most words ending in le, and in the words printed below in Italies.

lea leer, lap lath, lark lump, lot toil, pule lure · navel ravel, snivel shrivel, swivel drivel, shovel grovel, hazel weasel, ousel * nousel,† evil devil, castle axle, cripple able, title meddle-novel chapel parcel libellous legislate, loyalty loveliness.

Let Carolina smooth the liquid lay.

Lull with Amelia's liquid name the nine

And sweetly flow through all the royal line.

41. n.

This element also may be a syllable by itself, as in the words in Italics below.

neat near, nerve deign, ne'er nap, pun nurse, coin gnaw, warn noon, town now, tune news- stolen swollen fallen-eaten wheaten, even reason, deaden deafen, briton given, oaken token, frozen brazen, often roughen · cozener softening — unanimous nonentity.

Main chance father you meant but I meant Maine
Which I will win from France or else be slain.

42. t.

The vocule of this explodent lingual should not be hissed, nor aspirated upon the teeth.

(See also § 5. 3, and "27 u-se," Note.)

tea tear, knit thames, cut turk, yacht torse, wart tool, route tour, rout tower, cute tube tatter matter, titter tetter, brittle victual, phthisis debtor, nature feature, picture torture - titillate tutelar, testament taciturn — testator temptation.

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.

A telltale tattling termagant that troubled all the town.

43. d.

Refer as for 42, t.

deep dead, dare add, duck curd, ride dire, dock cord, owed door, lewd duty duly, deaden bdellium destroyed delayed.

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Ne'er be I found by thee o'erawed in that thrice hallowed eve abroad.

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44. s.

Very short and smooth.

sea seer, cuish mess, curse scene, schism psalm, soon soot, sue suit,

apsis thesis, tacit sceptre, psalmist psyche, hasten chasten - beside design, verbose resource, rescind finance — heresy fallacy.

Hiss not s harshly, but with a short soft sweet slightly whistling

sound.

And she shall be sole victress Cæsar's Cæsar.

Foes to my rest and my sweet sleep's disturbers.

45. z.

ease zeal, bars does, furze eyes, fires boz, toys cause, vows ours, fuse yours― prizes houses, daisies scissors — disease absolves, hussars observes-president sacrifice (v.) -- disposals discernment.

He gives as is his usage at this season a series of lectures on moral duties.

46. th-in.

theme think, birth frith, thank path, thump lith, thing thaw, broth tooth, loath thole, forth thew, youths truths - lethe thule, thesis pathos -amethyst apathy, orthodox synthesis.

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Three sixths of thirteen are one sixth of thirty-nine.

47. th-is.

thee with, then they, there that, baths tithe, booth though, thou mouths

- either heathen, thither father, pother mother, therefore worthy-bequeath beneath, unsheathe inwreathe.

And the milkmaid singeth blithe
And the mower whets his scythe.

48. f.

fee deaf, laugh scarf, fife fire, fop for, foil fawn, wharf few-fifty profit, often roughen- epitaph prophecy (n.), phrenetic febrifuge.

Fire enough for a flint pearl enough for a swine.

49. v.

veal live, starve vice, void groove, vote view

even stephen, vivid

votive, heaven nephew — receive reprieve, above remove.

The very doors and windows savor vilely.

And I to Ford will eke unfold how Falstaff varlet vile his dove will prove his gold will hold and his soft couch defile.

50. p.

pea peer, pert rap, path cup, pipe pyre, pop pause, dupe purepippin slipper, naphtha shepherd papacy populous, pabular ophthalmy.

Here piles of pins extend their shining rows puffs patches powders bibles billetdoux.

51. b.

bee beer, been ebb, babe blab, barb cub, bob born, boil bawl, boor bold, bower bute- cabal baboon, believe becalm, imbue embark — obstacle fabulous.

The barbarous Hubert took a bribe to kill the royal babe.

Earth smiles around with boundless bounty blest and heaven beholds its image in his breast.

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me mere, hymn phlegm, mayor drachm, calm gum, mood moor, comb more, mouth muse -mammon moment, murmur sombre, empty tempter-mimically mamillary, momentary matrimony.

Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole.

53. w.

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we weird, win wend, worth wail, wear wag, waft one, wine choir, wan quoit, warp woof, woe wore, wound (p.) whew! woman wolsey, wayward wormwood, cuirass quagmire — wanderer widower, weatherwise whitherward.

A wight well versed in waggery.

Was ever woman in this humor wooed
Was ever woman in this humor won.

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