"Candid! Would you prefer discussing 'sacred fountains and groves?' "
Friend.—That, ingrate, was only to flatter a little, for once, your humor, your "mood,"—which, in all its tenses, I should call the doubtful.
(Scenes and Adventures in the Army)
"In the Missionary College at Lahainaluna, on Maui, one of the Sandwich
Islands, I saw a tabular exhibition of a Hawaiian verb, conjugated
through all its moods and tenses. It
covered the side of a considerable apartment, and I doubt whether Sir
William Jones himself would not have despaired of mastering it." (Typee)
"Each conjugation will I curb,
All moods and tenses of the verb...." (Clarel 2.3)
