Type D half-lines ending in words of this type are analysed by Hutcheson as ending in two completely unstressed syllables. That analysis must be descriptively correct for, say, the 10th cent.; whether it would have fitted the facts in the 8th cent. is much less clear.

Toujours Perdrix ! That's loving to satiety– There is no fun in life without variety !

In another minute she lay peaceful and motionless under the anæsthetic — a statue, immobile, yet expressionful, as though carved by some master hand.

We stalked over the extensive plains with Killbuck and Lena in the slips, in search of deer.