They led one another, as it were, into a high pavilion of their thoughts.--HAWTHORNE.
Men take each other's measure when they react.--EMERSON.
Exercise.--Find sentences containing three distributive pronouns.
135. The NUMERAL PRONOUNS are those which stand for an uncertain number or quantity of persons or things.
The following sentences contain numeral pronouns:--
Trusting too much to _others'_ care is the ruin of _many_.
'Tis of no importance how large his house, you quickly come to the end of _all_.
_Another_ opposes him with sound argument.
It is as if _one_ should be so enthusiastic a lover of poetry as to care nothing for Homer or Milton.
There were plenty _more_ for him to fall in company with, as _some_ of the rangers had gone astray.
The Soldan, imbued, as _most_ were, with the superstitions of his time, paused over a horoscope.
If those [taxes] were the only _ones_ we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them.
If hand of mine _another's_ task has lightened. It felt the guidance that it does not claim. So perish _all_ whose breast ne'er learned to glow For _others_' good, or melt for _others_' woe.
It will be noticed that some of these are inflected for case and number; such as _one other_, _another_.
The word _one_ has a reflexive form; for example,--
The best way to punish _oneself_ for doing ill seems to me to go and do good.--KINGSLEY.
The lines sound so prettily to _one's self_. HOLMES.
Exercise.--Find sentences containing ten numeral pronouns.
136. Indefinite pronouns are words which stand for an indefinite number or quantity of persons or things; but, unlike adjective pronouns, they are never used as adjectives.
Most of them are compounds of two or more words:--
_Somebody_, _some one_, _something_; _anybody_, _any one_ (or _anyone_), _anything_; _everybody_, _every one_ (or _everyone_), _everything_; _nobody_, _no one_, _nothing_; _somebody else_, _anyone else_, _everybody else_, _every one else_, etc.; also _aught_, _naught_; and _somewhat_, _what_, and _they_.
The following sentences contain indefinite pronouns:--
As he had them of all hues, he hoped to fit _everybody's_ fancy.
_Every one_ knows how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences.