receiver from the hook you call the
operator.

4. At last the employer of the men, and those who were employed
by him, having compromised their difficulties, effected a
settlement, and reached an amicable understanding agreeable to
both parties.

5. The two merchants joined up their forces together in order
to secure a monopoly of the entire trade of the village. There
was one absolutely essential preliminary which they thought
must necessarily precede everything else. It was that they
should take all the old shop-worn articles and dispose of them
by selling them as bargains at a reduced rate.

=Triteness=

=61. Avoid trite or hackneyed expressions.= Such expressions may be tags
from everyday speech (_the worse for wear_, _had the time of my life_);
or stale phrases from newspapers (_taken into custody_, _the officiating
clergyman_); or humorous substitutions (_ferocious canine_, _paternal
ancestor_); or forced synonyms (_gridiron heroes_, _the Hoosier
metropolis_); or conventional fine writing (_reigns supreme_, _wind
kissed the tree-tops_); or oft-repeated euphemisms (_limb_ for _leg_,
_pass away_ for _die_); or overworked quotations from literature
(_monarch of all I survey_, _footprints on the sands of time_).

List of trite expressions:

along these lines
meets the eye
feathered songsters
a long-felt want
the last sad rites
launched into eternity
last but not least
doomed to disappointment
at one fell swoop
sadder but wiser
did justice to a dinner
a goodly number
budding genius
beggars description
a dull thud
silence broken only by
wended their way
abreast of the times
trees stood like sentinels
method in his madness
sun-kissed meadows
tired but happy
hoping you are the same
nipped in the bud
the happy pair
seething mass of humanity
specimen of humanity
with bated breath
green with envy
the proud possessor
too full for utterance
a pugilistic encounter
conspicuous by its absence
with whom they come in contact
exception proves the rule
favor with a selection
as luck would have it
more easily imagined than described
where ignorance is bliss

Exercise:

1. Halleck returned from his trip considerably the worse for
wea