But Mary secretly rejoiced that the youngest of the three was very much what her father must have been when he wore a round jacket, and showed a marvellous nicety of aim in playing at marbles, or in throwing stones to bring down the mellow pears.

The Leams of the morning sun streamed through the half-closed shutters

The consecutio temporum is constituted by the connections between clauses and their verb forms. […] The connections that have been determined with respect to the consecutio temporum depend on the assumption that there are larger groups of clauses in the text than combinations of main and subordinate clause only.

The Hindus take the bull by the horns and boldly make sítlá (small-pox) a goddess, an incarnation of Bhawáni, deëss of destruction-reproduction.