Immediately ( page 211 ).
Questions.
1. What is the primary meaning of immediately? Its meaning as an adverb of time? 2. What did by and by formerly signify? What is its present meaning? 3. What did directly formerly signify, and what does it now commonly mean? 4. What change has presently undergone? 5. Is immediately losing anything of its force? What words now seem more emphatic?
Examples.
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal —— does always last.
Let us go up ——, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
Obey me ——!