14. I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me, and to whom I do not belong.--EMERSON.
15. That evil influence which carried me first away from my father's house, that hurried me into the wild and undigested notion of making my fortune, and that impressed these conceits so forcibly upon me.--DEFOE.
421. The student is sometimes troubled whether to use each other or one another in expressing reciprocal relation or action. Whether either one refers to a certain number of persons or objects, whether or not the two are equivalent, may be gathered from a study of the following sentences:--
They [Ernest and the poet] led _one another_, as it were, into the high pavilion of their thoughts.--HAWTHORNE.
Men take _each other's_ measure when they meet for the first time.--EMERSON.
You ruffian! do you fancy I forget that we were fond of _each other_?--THACKERAY.
England was then divided between kings and Druids, always at war with _one another_, carrying off _each other's_ cattle and wives.--BREWER
The topics follow _each other_ in the happiest order.--MACAULAY.
The Peers at a conference begin to pommel _each other_.--_Id._
We call ourselves a rich nation, and we are filthy and foolish enough to thumb _each other's_ books out of circulating libraries.--RUSKIN.
The real hardships of life are now coming fast upon us; let us not increase them by dissension among _each other_.--GOLDSMITH.
In a moment we were all shaking hands with _one another_.--DICKENS.
The unjust purchaser forces the two to bid against _each other._--RUSKIN.
[Sidenote: _Distributives_ either _and_ neither.]
422. By their original meaning, either and neither refer to only two persons or objects; as, for example,--
Some one must be poor, and in want of his gold--or his corn. Assume that no one is in want of _either_.--RUSKIN
Their [Ernest's and the poet's] minds accorded into one strain, and made delightful music which _neither_ could have claimed as all his own.--HAWTHORNE.
Sometimes these are made to refer to several objects, in which case any should be used instead; as,--
Was it the winter's storm? was it hard labor and spare meals? was it disease? was it the tomahawk? Is it possible that _neither_ of these causes, that not all combined, were able to blast this bud of hope?--EVERETT.