Which of the following lines contain alliteration: (a) their stillness answering his cry (b) while his horse moved, cropping the dark turf (c) for he suddenly smote on the door, even (d) neath the starred and leafy sky.

"such has been the patient suffrence of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to after their former systems of government. the history of the present king of great britain is a history of reapeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishedment of an absolute tyranny over these states." which statement best describes the excerpt