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connection is _armor_ used in modern warfare? EXAMPLES. ---- on ---- clashing brayed Horrible discord. There is constant rivalry between irresistible projectiles and impenetrable ----. * * * * * ARMY (page 56). QUESTIONS. 1. What are the essentials of an _army_? 2. Is an _army_ large or small? 3. What term would be applied to a _multitude_ of armed men without order or organization? 4. In what sense is _host_ used? _legion_? EXAMPLES. For the ---- is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous, prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen. The still-discordant wavering ----. * * * * * ARRAIGN (page 56). QUESTIONS. 1. To what kind of proceedings do _indict_ and _arraign_ apply? 2. How is one _indicted_? How _arraigned_? 3. How do these words differ from _charge_? _accuse_? _censure_? EXAMPLES. The criminal was ---- for trial for his offenses. Religion does not ---- or exclude unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued. * * * * * ARTIFICE (page 58). QUESTIONS. 1. What is an _artifice_? a _device_? _finesse_? 2. In what sense are _cheat_, _maneuver_, and _imposture_ always used? 3. In what sense is _trick_ commonly used? 4. What is a _fraud_? 5. Is _wile_ used in a good or a bad sense? 6. Does the good or the bad sense commonly attach to the words _artifice_, _contrivance_, _ruse_, _blind_, _device_, and _finesse_? EXAMPLES. Those who can not gain their ends by force naturally resort to ----. The enemy were decoyed from their defenses by a skilful ----. Quips and cranks and wanton ----, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles. Whoever has even once become notorious by base ----, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief. * * * * * ARTIST (page 58). QUESTIONS. 1. What is an _artist_? an _artisan_? 2. What is an _artificer_? How related to _artist_ and _artisan_? EXAMPLES. The power depends on the depth of the ----'s insight of that object he contemplates. Infuse into the purpose with which you follow the various employments and professions of life the sense of beauty, and you are transformed at once from an ---- into an ----. If too many ---- turn shopkeepers, the whole nat
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