1st Grade Sight Words With Example

He never made a second attempt.

I was up in a second and shinning down the hill.

As she came near the second of these alcoves she stopped skipping.

You remind me of some one else who loved the earth and things that grow.

They are so busy and having such fun under the earth or in the trees or heather.

When Dickon had deepened the hole Colin went on turning the soft earth over and over.

Rainy days lost their terrors that morning.

That was the day after I lost a white alley.

The pupils wondered if this foolhardy boy had lost his mind.

One was a big family Bible full of pictures.

It was a mighty nice family, and a mighty nice house, too.

The family were still at table, but they had finished breakfast.

She did not feel cross when Martha chattered away.

It sounded like something in a book and it did not make Mary feel cheerful.

She had not known before that this was one of the things which made her feel sour and cross.

She did not believe she was speaking the truth.

Mary hesitated about two minutes and then boldly spoke the truth.

To tell the truth, sir, Master Colin might be better and he might be changing for the worse.

Every few yards it stopped to rest.

I can rest against the tree if I like.

I get my day out once a month same as th rest.

I was itching in eleven different places now.

So was her sister, Miss Sophia, but it was a different kind.

They were of different sizes, and some had their mahouts or palanquins on their backs.

If you can keep this up, my boy, we need not talk of dying.

For some mysterious reason he knew he need not watch Dickon.

What Mary felt afterward was that she need not fear about Dickon.

You never met them in the air or on tree-tops.

Three famous jumpers were they, as everyone would say, when they all met together in the room.

Why, a man I met at daybreak this morning, just as I was going to turn into the woods for my regular sleep.

But at any rate he might answer questions.

No mere ferule will answer for this offence.

Besides, they are afraid of my beak; and I have always a witty answer at hand.

The sea continued to get calmer.

The blaze illumined the sea for a hundred paces around.

He turned towards the fortress, and looked at both sea and land.

Mary looked hard too, but she said nothing.

His elbow was pressing against some hard substance.

Tom was downhearted, but tried hard not to show it.

Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

Mary caught her breath in a short gasp and felt herself turn pale.

The beetle lay there working its helpless legs, unable to turn over.

She came close to the bed and he put out his hand and touched her.

She bent very close to them and sniffed the fresh scent of the damp earth.

Once more she found herself in the long hall, and close to the little glass table.

I only stayed to go to that silly dinner party.

Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the shore.

This speech caused a remarkable sensation among the party.

True, this story has diverted our attention from them.

They passed to the third story; it was the telegraph room.

The Welshman had to tell the story of the night to the visitors.

He kept that book under lock and key.

That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

It sounded like something in a book and it did not make Mary feel cheerful.

She wished she could talk as he did.

She always wanted to try to make him talk to her.

And he wants me to come and talk to him every day.

That idea seemed to impress Colin.

He said it as if he was so accustomed to the idea that it had ceased to matter to him at all.

They both laughed but it was not because the idea was laughable but because they both so liked it.

Mary flew across the grass to him.

Mary crept softly across the room to look.

Mr. Craven got up and began to walk slowly across the room.

I sometimes made little beds in the sand and stuck flowers in them.

He says he feels sometimes as if he was a bird or a rabbit himself, he likes them so.

The listener laughed until tears came into his eyes and sometimes tears came into his eyes when he was not laughing.

They fell into the line of carriages.

Then I set out a line to catch some fish for breakfast.

The file on the Corso broke the line, and in a second all the carriages had disappeared.

The mighty river lay like an ocean at rest.

The river was not high, so there was not more than a two or three mile current.

The river was coming up pretty fast, and lots of driftwood going by on the rise.

That was the change she noticed.

This change of base occurred often.

Even Martha had seen a change in her.

She was so happy that she scarcely dared to breathe.

Dr. Craven did not look happy when he left the room.

If she had felt happy it would probably have lulled her to sleep.

It would seem to bring him nearer.

Of course, it did seem to begin to grow for her that morning.

They never startled one by being sudden enough to seem dangerous or threatening.

The sound had come up that passage.

The mournful sound kept her awake because she felt mournful herself.

There was a sound of many footsteps, and Alice looked round, eager to see the Queen.

But it was too late to be careful.

That morning Dickon was too late to hear the lecture.

Tom was out late, that night, and came to bed through the window.

The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.

When she went out and closed the door, Mary could only stand waiting, a plain little thing, twisting her thin hands together.

This of course, Alice could not stand, and she went round the court and got behind him, and very soon found an opportunity of taking it away.

I have such real dreams very often.

If you are real, sit down on that big footstool and talk.

I will pinch you a little if you like, to show you how real I am.

This was a bad beginning and Mary marched up to him with her stiff manner.

He had not meant to be a bad father, but he had not felt like a father at all.

To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body.

I was away below the ferry now.

She stood below him and called up to him with a sort of gasp.

Three miles below town the ferryboat stopped at the mouth of a woody hollow and tied up.

The far-off faint crying went on and led her.

Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the shore.

Perhaps it led into the garden which no one had seen for ten years.

For we are going a visit to pay.

I will pay twenty-five piastres for my passage back to Leghorn.

Mary had not had time to pay much attention to her changing face.

Tom turned in without the added vexation of prayers, and Sid made mental note of the omission.

She cast her eyes again over the note to peruse it a second time, and saw there was a postscript.

This note was in a different hand from the rest, which showed that it had been added since his confinement.

A wind was rising and making a singular, wild, low, rushing sound.

But as she was listening to the wind she began to listen to something else.

The rainstorm had ended and the gray mist and clouds had been swept away in the night by the wind.