Unit 4: Selection Vocabulary 4

Or gazing empty at despair?

With dragging pace or footsteps fleet?

Strong, willing sinews in your wings?

There is nothing to cook with, hence I have nothing to do, and, therefore, have time to write.

I received a silver medal from the soldiers which cost twenty dollars. I know what thee will say—that the money could have been better laid out. It was very complimentary though.

The tents of the wounded I look right out on—it is a melancholy sight, but you have no idea how soon one gets used to it.

Their screams of agony do not make as much impression on me now as the reading of this letter will on you.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground.