Практикум по лексикологии английского языка. Часть 1. Словообразование. Маковецкая Н.А - 40 стр.

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through him, the ruined peacefulness of the Pass here, his own violated
trustfulness, the precious rest he had had for ten days but which was now lost, the
cheap reaction of the two men before him to what was clearly a deep moral issue,
the unconscionable lack of integrity of the man behind him (J.Jones). 10. That
branch of the family had been reckless marriers (C.Porter). 11. Mary Jane threw
back her head and roared. “Marvellous,” she said, coming back into drinking
position (J.D.Salinger). 12. On the sub-main floor of the hotel, which the
management directed bathers to use, a woman with zinc salve on (Bid). 13. “Did
he … peacefully?” she asked. “Oh, quite peacefully, ma’am,” said Eliza. “The
pain was bad but it was livable. You couldn’t tell when the breath went out of
him” (J.Joyce). 14. And thereafter I seldom suffered a fine day to pass without
paying a visit to Wildfell about the time new acquaintance usually left her
hermitage, she was a real looker (A.Bronté). 15. … three reporters called to
interview Ben, two of them kittenish young girls (R.Gardner). 16. I had sized up
the Taylor woman as a package-leaver as soon as she joined us (D.Maurier). 17.
A good reliable husband he’ll make, I’m sure… But your father doesn’t over-like
him (J.Lindsay). 18. Unseeking you can have nothing (W.Saroyan). 19. “Well,
you’ve certainly eased my mind,” said Catsmeat, having released the hand and
then re-grabbed and re-squeezed it (P.G.Wodehouse). 20. However, by pulling
this way and by pushing that, I made progress, and I'’ just contrived to de-chair
myself and was about to rise, when another voice spoke (Bid). 21. Lord Conesford
stoat defender of the Queen’s English recently paraphrased Churchill’s “Give us
the tools and we will finish the job” by Washingtonizing it like this: “Supply us
with the implements and we will finalize the solution of the matter” (J.Thurber).
22. When it comes to dealing with daily obstacles, he says, “we have a tendency
towards catastrophizing and awfulizing (fr. Newsweek, 25 Apr., 1988). 23. The
raspy American drawl may be a little grittier … but Lady Long Legs … is in
rumbustuous form, looking great an as much of a clothesaholic as ever (fr.Daily
Telegraph, 12 Jan., 1987). 24. I fell to wondering why chocolate is such
compulsive stuff that those who love it have earned the unlovely nickname of
“chocoholics” . (fr. Daily Telegraph, 26 Mar., 1988).

Exercise 2. Instructions as above.

1. He detests me because I’m in this crazy Religion seminar he conducts, and I
can never bring myself to smile back at him when he’s being charming and
Oxfordish (J.D.Salinger). 2. After half an hour, breakfastless he climbed the
stairs (S.Lewis). 3. It dawned upon him that he became wifeless and in effect
childless (J.O’Hara). 4. Lord Emoworth was so acutely spectacleless, Rupert
Baxter, his secretary, so pronouncedly spectacled (P.Wodehouse). 5. He remained
annoyingly unloverlike (M.Mitchell). 6. … a pale, solemn, unathletic-looking
young man (S.Lewis). 7. You think in such an absolutely unmodern way about
everything (A.Huxley). 8. Sofia Tolstoy was a remarkably unbrilliant woman
(J.D.Salinger). 9. I have decided that you are up to no good. I as well aware that
that is your natural condition. But I prefer you to be up to no good in London.