Position Of "N Curl

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Position Of "N Curl

516. As the n curl, like a tick, can never be written alone, it has no position of its own, and hence, with its accompanying circle, accommodates itself to the normal position of the succeeding word. Illustrations: in his grief

in his grave

in his list

in his

last

in similar.

in some

"N curl" for "in."

517. In the following exercise, initial in is followed by a circle which is a part of the next word:

exercise.

in (con)sideration

in (con)sidering a

in (con)sidering his

in (con)sidering the

in (con)struction

in (ex)press language

in sacred

in secret

in security

in seeming

in seizing

in selfish

in selling

in sermons

in ceremony

in similar

in sleep

in small

in small numbers

in smoke

in sober

in some

in some cases

in some degree

in some instances

in some measure

in some one

in some other

in some other respects

in some other way

in some other places

in some you will find

in spring

in something

27b The "N" Curl.

in something better

in something else (else

made downward) in some things in somewhat in strong in strength in strict in striving

in strict accord in summer in supreme in surprise in swallowing in (ex)pressing in suppressing in symmetry in sympathy

"in his" represented by the "curl" and circle.

518. In the following exercise, the in hook and its accompanying circle represent in his:

in his ambition in his allusion in his ample in his appearance in his argument in his arrest in his association in his brain in his branch in his brave in his bravery in his breast in his brief in his brutality in his care in his careful in his character in his charming in his course in his courage in his courtesy in his creation

in his credit in his credulity in his crime in his criticism in his cruelty in his crusade in his danger in his drama in his drawer in his dread in his dream in his dress in his drink in his eagerness in his easy in his empire in his error in his escape in his grace in his grade in his grasp in his grave

in his gravity

in his great

in his grip

in his gross

in his growth

in his habits

in his haste

in his head

in his hearty

in his heavy

in his hesitation

in his holy

in his house

in his hurried

in his hurry

in his husky

in his illustration

in his image

in his immense

in his immediate

in. his importance

in his imposition

in his improvement

in his impulses

in his journey

in his labor

in his last

in his las (t) letter

in his lecture

in his letter

in his line

in his list

in his love

in his grief

in his management

in his manuscript

in his march

in his merit

in his method

in his mind

in his miserable

in his mission

in his mistake

in his moderation

in his motive

in his mouth

in his music

in his order

in his perception

in his permission

in his praise

in his personal

in his precious

in his precise

in his prediction

in his preface

in his preference

in his premises

in his principles

in his promise

in his process

in his proof

in his property

in his proposition

in his provision

in his protest

in his prime

in his remonstrance

in his remedy

in his room

in his treaty

in his trunk

in his usual

in his usual way

in his way

in his weariness

in his wise

in his western in his wish in his weary

"in as" represented by the "curl" and circle.

519. In the following exercise, the in hook and the accompanying circle represent in as:

in as brave in as brief in as cheerful in as correct in as careful in as great in as gross in as little in as moderate

in as many

in as many ways

in as many cases

in as many as possible

in as many more

in as true

in as wise

in as zealous

ellipsis of "a," "an" or "the."

520. In some cases, a, an, or the, following in expressed by the "curl," is omitted in the writing, to be supplied by the sense in the reading. Thus we may write