wing are additional examples:--

The next _correspondent_ wants you to mark out a whole course of
life for _him_.--HOLMES.

Every _city_ threw open _its_ gates.--DE QUINCEY.

Every _person_ who turns this page has _his_ own little
diary.--THACKERAY.

The pale realms of shade, where _each_ shall take
_His_ chamber in the silent halls of death.
--BRYANT.

[Sidenote: _Avoided: By using both pronouns._]

Sometimes this is avoided by using both the masculine and the feminine
pronoun; for example,--

Not the feeblest _grandame_, not a mowing _idiot_, but uses what
spark of perception and faculty is left, to chuckle and triumph
in _his or her_ opinion.--EMERSON.

It is a game which has been played for untold ages, every _man_
and _woman_ of us being one of the two players in a game of _his
or her_ own.--HUXLEY.

_By using the plural pronoun._

411. Another way of referring to an antecedent which is a
distributive pronoun or a noun modified by a distributive adjective,
is to use the plural of the pronoun following. This is not considered
the best usage, the logical analysis requiring the singular pronoun in
each case; but the construction is frequently found _when the
antecedent includes or implies both genders_. The masculine does not
really represent a feminine antecedent, and the expression _his or
her_ is avoided as being cumbrous.

Notice the following examples of the plural:--

_Neither_ of the sisters _were_ very much deceived.--THACKERAY.

_Every one_ must judge of _their_ own feelings.--BYRON.

Had the doctor been contented to take my dining tables, as
_anybody_ in _their_ senses would have done.--AUSTEN.

If the part deserve any comment, every considering _Christian_
will make it _themselves_ as they go.--DEFOE.

_Every person's_ happiness depends in part upon the respect
_they_ meet in the world.--PALEY.

_Every nation_ have _their_ refinements--STERNE.

_Neither_ gave vent to _their_ feelings in words.--SCOTT.

_Each_ of the nations acted according to _their_ national
custom.--PALGRAVE.

The sun, which pleases _everybody_ with it and with
_themselves_.--RUSKIN.

Urging _every one_ within reach of your influence to be neat, and
giving _them_ means of being so.--_Id._

_Everybody_ will become of use in _their_ own fittest way.--_Id._