To think carefully and to write precisely are interrelated goals.

What is learned unwillingly is gladly forgotten.

If we try, we might succeed; if we do not try, we cannot succeed.

The fruit market displayed apples, peaches, pears, nectarines.

They read and studied and wrote and drilled. I laughed and played and talked and flunked.

The lake was not, in fact, drained before April.

The seven thousand unfilled orders represent no small backlog.

But someone might say that this battle really had no effect on the outcome of the war. This position could only come from ignoring the effect it had on the career of General Mars.

Where else can this region look to augment its water supply? One possibility is...

I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

If I had some wheels, I'd put on my best threads and ask for her hand.

She grabbed her purse from the alcove, her gloves from the table, and her keys from the bowl.

The cat rolled on its back, raised its paws, and clawed the air.

His was a countenance sad.

The ship's crew-after three days at sea in a raft-reached the coast of St. Thomas.

This has been a difficult time for the economy, a difficult time for the retail industry, and a difficult time for our clothing stores.

The board, while pretending to pursue stockholders' interests, is actually engaged in the pursuit of power, the consolidation of power, and the abuse of power.

In the library students can find books; in books they can find ideas; with ideas they can plan great achievements.

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.

I am not so sure I can accept the CEO's rationale for buying a jet to be used instead of the commercial airlines.

I pass over the fact that my opponent is an alcoholic and a high school dropout because I do not want to let personal failures enter into this campaign.

I can keyboard that article this afternoon.

The subway car came to a halt with a jolt; a wrenching, neck-snapping jolt.

The most important quality to look for in impact sockets is hardness; no, not so much hardness as resistance to shock and shattering.