e country was saved--saved from the rapacities of
fortune, saved from the malignancy of its enemies, saved from
the sluggish despair of the people of England themselves.

Emphatic and natural: This corner of the garden was my first
playground. Here I made my first toddling effort to walk. Here
on the soft grass I learned the delight of out-of-doors. Here I
became acquainted with the bull-frog, and the bumble-bee, and
the neighbor's dog.

Emphatic and delightful: He maketh me to lie down in green
pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth
my soul; he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his
name's sake.

Exercise:

1. He kept digging away for gold through long years.

2. Breaking against the shore, came innumerable waves.

3. Sand, sagebrush, shimmering flat horizon. I could not endure
the barren monotony of the desert.

4. We want you to come and visit us, and bring along a good
appetite and your customary high spirits. Plan to stay a long
time.

5. 'Twas bitter cold outside. The cat meowed until I had to let
her in.

=Offensive Repetition=

Careless repetition attracts attention to words that do not need
emphasis. It is extremely annoying to the reader.

=48a. Unless a word or phrase is repeated deliberately to gain force or
clearness, its repetition is a blunder. Get rid of recurring expressions
in one of three ways: (1) by substituting equivalent expressions, (2) by
using pronouns more liberally, (3) by rearranging the sentence so as to
say once what has awkwardly been said twice.= Each of these schemes is
illustrated below.

=1.= Repetition cured by the use of equivalent expressions (synonyms).

Bad: _Just_ as we were half way down the lake, _just_ off
Milwaukee, we _began_ to feel a slight motion of the ship and
the _wind began_ to freshen. The _wind began_ to blow more
fiercely from the south and the waves _began_ to leap high. The
boat _began_ to pitch and roll.

Right: _Just_ as we were half way down the lake, _opposite_
Milwaukee, we began to feel a slight motion of the ship, for
the wind _had_ freshened. Before long _a gale_, _blowing_ from
the south, _kicked up a heavy sea and caused_ the boat to pitch
and roll. [Notice how combining the last two sentences helps to
solve the problem of the last _began_, b