4. Souls such as _these_ treat you as G.o.ds would.--_Id._
5. _These_ are the first mountains that broke the uniform level of the earth"s surface.--AGa.s.sIZ
DISTRIBUTIVE p.r.o.nOUNS.
[Sidenote: _Definition and examples._]
134. The DISTRIBUTIVE p.r.o.nOUNS are those which stand for the names of persons or things considered singly.
[Sidenote: _Simple._]
Some of these are _simple_ p.r.o.nouns; for example,--
They stood, or sat, or reclined, as seemed good to _each_.
As two yoke devils sworn to _other"s_ purpose.
Their minds accorded into one strain, and made delightful music which _neither_ could have claimed as all his own.
[Sidenote: _Compound_.]
Two are compound p.r.o.nouns,--_each other_, _one another_. They may be separated into two adjective p.r.o.nouns; as,
We violated our reverence _each_ for _the other"s_ soul.
--HAWTHORNE.
More frequently they are considered as one p.r.o.noun.
They led one another, as it were, into a high pavilion of their thoughts.--HAWTHORNE.
Men take each other"s measure when they react.--EMERSON.
Exercise.--Find sentences containing three distributive p.r.o.nouns.
NUMERAL p.r.o.nOUNS.
[Sidenote: _Definition and examples_.]
135. The NUMERAL p.r.o.nOUNS are those which stand for an uncertain number or quant.i.ty of persons or things.
The following sentences contain numeral p.r.o.nouns:--
Trusting too much to _others"_ care is the ruin of _many_.
"Tis of no importance how large his house, you quickly come to the end of _all_.
_Another_ opposes him with sound argument.
It is as if _one_ should be so enthusiastic a lover of poetry as to care nothing for Homer or Milton.
There were plenty _more_ for him to fall in company with, as _some_ of the rangers had gone astray.
The Soldan, imbued, as _most_ were, with the superst.i.tions of his time, paused over a horoscope.
If those [taxes] were the only _ones_ we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them.
_Much_ might be said on both sides.
If hand of mine _another"s_ task has lightened.
It felt the guidance that it does not claim.
So perish _all_ whose breast ne"er learned to glow For _others_" good, or melt for _others_" woe.
_None_ shall rule but the humble.
[Sidenote: _Some inflected._]
It will be noticed that some of these are inflected for case and number; such as _one other_, _another_.
The word _one_ has a reflexive form; for example,--
[Sidenote: One _reflexive_.]
The best way to punish _oneself_ for doing ill seems to me to go and do good.--KINGSLEY.
The lines sound so prettily to _one"s self_. HOLMES.
Exercise.--Find sentences containing ten numeral p.r.o.nouns.
INDEFINITE p.r.o.nOUNS.
[Sidenote: _Definition and examples._]
136. Indefinite p.r.o.nouns are words which stand for an indefinite number or quant.i.ty of persons or things; but, unlike adjective p.r.o.nouns, they are never used as adjectives.
Most of them are compounds of two or more words:--
[Sidenote: _List._]
_Somebody_, _some one_, _something_; _anybody_, _any one_ (or _anyone_), _anything_; _everybody_, _every one_ (or _everyone_), _everything_; _n.o.body_, _no one_, _nothing_; _somebody else_, _anyone else_, _everybody else_, _every one else_, etc.; also _aught_, _naught_; and _somewhat_, _what_, and _they_.
The following sentences contain indefinite p.r.o.nouns:--
As he had them of all hues, he hoped to fit _everybody"s_ fancy.