He would also criticize my conversation, never letting one word pass that was ungrammatical or incorrectly pronounced.

If I said, "I am so glad," he would ask, "So glad that what?
You don't give the correlative." He warned against reliance on the aid of alliteration.

The books read to him were discussed and the authors praised or criticized.
St.Louis was to me altogether delightful, and I still am interested in that city, so enlarged and improved.

I used to see boys riding astride razor-back hogs in the street, where now stately limousines glide over smooth pavements.
I have always had more cordiality towards strangers, homesick students at Dartmouth, and the audiences at my lectures, since learning a better habit.

Frigidity and formality were driven away by the sunshine that brightened my stay at St.Louis.
I do not wish to intrude my private woes, but I returned from the West with a severe case of whooping-cough.