...form is a question of style. Take another example : The sides of the mountain were covered with trees; the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers...; and every month dropped fruits upon the ground. There is here an advantage in putting these four statements together, instead of making four separate...

...precipice to precipice till it was heard no more. The sides of the mountains were covered with trees, the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers...upon the ground. All animals that bite the grass, or brouse the shrub, whether wild or tame, wandered in this extensive circuit, secured from beasts of...

...Guinea — Zimbabwe — Ethiopia — Iran — Tibet The sides of mountains were covered with trees, the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers;...every blast shook spices from the rocks and every mouth dropped fruits upon the ground. —JOHNSON, Rasselas, quoted in T. Packenham, The Mountains of...

...holds both the beauty of the season and a warning: "The sides of the mountains were covered with trees, the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers;...rocks, and every month dropped fruits upon the ground" (169). As everyone is ingathering for the Shabbej, Jeremy is about to arrive for a reconciliation with...

...whom nature has taught to dip the wing in water. The sides of the mountains are covered witlr trees, the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers;...rocks, and every month dropped fruits upon the ground. No. J3-I. Sir John Falstaff examining his recruits, by J. Cawsc, is a тегуclever picture in oils....

...semicolon joins them; as, "The sides of the mountain were covered with trees ; the banks of the brook were diversified with flowers ; every blast shook...: and every month dropped fruits upon the ground." This arrangement is better than writing them in four separate sentences. We can more easily combine...

...or lirnulc the mrub, whether wild or tame, wandered in this extenßv^ circuit, fecured from beafts of prey by the mountains which confined them. On one part were flocks 2nd herds feeding in the paftures, on another all the bealts of chace friíking in the lawns ; the...