1st Grade Sight Words With Example

He did not speak, but showed the paper to Dantes.

Tom got out a bit of paper and carefully unrolled it.

The village paper published biographical sketches of the boys.

It is more important than you think, perhaps.

A great misfortune, more important to me than life.

It is important that you should fulfil this mission in person and alone.

She leaned forward and pressed her face against the window just as the carriage gave a big jolt.

Mary asked no more questions but waited in the darkness of her corner, keeping her eyes on the window.

She stood at the window for about ten minutes this morning after Martha had swept up the hearth for the last time and gone downstairs.

So they asked her to let them send some of their shillings to buy things.

I can always send the nurse out of the room and say that I want to be by myself.

He had indeed begun to wonder if it might not be wise to send some one out to explore the garden paths.

commemorate his name by so uncommon an action.

I neither ill-use nor ill-treat my servants by word or action.

If we wanted to conceal the noble action this purse commemorates, we should not expose it thus to view.

No one would dare to follow us.

I was going to follow around, but I stooped down to look at the tracks first.

So she took another hearty drink, and let the second chicken follow the first.

It was sweet and clear and happy and far away.

It was sweet, and she did not know how strong it was.

She was gentle and sweet like a dove, and she was only twenty.

Oh, dear, no, your excellency, unless you intend to commit suicide.

You well know, Edmond, that I am no longer a reasoning creature; I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide.

He saw nothing, unless that, by traces of smoke, others had before him attempted the same thing, and, like him, in vain.

She then came to a large lake, where there was neither ship nor boat.

Morrel will have nothing to reproach us with, we have tried to save the ship, let us now save ourselves.

Then he gave him the ship which could sail on land and water, and when the king saw that, he could no longer prevent him from having his daughter.

A brougham stood on the road before the little outside platform.

It was the long walk outside the gardens with the walls round them.

There would be, birds outside though there would not be ponies or sheep.

But if you stay in a room you never see things.

I asked him if I should go away and he made me stay.

She had made Martha stay with her and Martha had not objected at all.

Tom reached school ahead of time.

The school stared in perplexity at this incredible folly.

He started to school and had the luck of coming upon Becky Thatcher at the head of Meadow Lane.

The poor morsel of food only whetted desire.

The two men got out some food and made a luncheon.

She had had servants, and food and clothes, but no one had taken any notice of her.

Tom eyed it, and longed for it; but it was safe out of his reach.

Right at your elbow; if you reach out your arm you can touch him.

They were content to reach ground again without broken necks, and take the townward track over the hill.

The wailing grew wilder and wilder.

She just grew sour and obstinate and did not care what happened.

She led him round the laurel path and to the walk where the ivy grew so thickly.

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

We played robber now and then about a month, and then I resigned.

By this means the end of the month was passed, but his resources were now exhausted.

She felt very curious to know what it was all about, and crept a little way out of the wood to listen.

So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see it trot away quietly into the wood.

Thick as the ivy hung, it nearly all was a loose and swinging curtain, though some had crept over wood and iron.

It was only a stone or a chunk.

In the midst of the large, old, smoking hall burnt a great fire on the stone floor.

So he sat down, and the fox began to run, and away they went over stock and stone so quick that their hair whistled in the wind.

Aunt Polly felt a sudden pang of remorse.

A sudden thought made her scramble to her feet.

Mr. Craven had it shut when his wife died so sudden.

But Tom did not wait for the rest.

They must stay there and wait until the searchers came.

Another tedious wait at the spring and another long sleep brought changes.

He wanted to cry with vexation.

And, by jings, he begins to cry.

She did not cry, but ground her teeth.

The Flea was the first to step forward.

As he drew near to it his step became still more slow.

There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

The genius for laudation characteristic of the race was in that phrase.

No doubt she belongs to the same horrible race he does, and is, like himself, a dealer in magical arts.

Therefore he must now begin to get ready.

When young things begin to gain health they gain it rapidly.

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

Very clever people try to learn them.

Go forth into the world, there you will learn what poverty is.

After a dainty egg and fish dinner, Tom said he wanted to learn to smoke, now.

The baroness rose hastily, and was going into the study, when Danglars stopped her.

Monte Cristo took Albert into his study, and pointing to a seat, placed another for himself.

While he was yet at the door of the study he heard the bedroom door open, turned, and saw his father.

Not a modern picture among them.

Colin looked rather like a picture himself.

It was the picture of a girl with a laughing face.

Indian servants were commanded to do things, not asked.

She was imperious and Indian, and at the same time hot and sorrowful.

They went to the Indian room and amused themselves with the ivory elephants.

The children groped their way back to the spring.

There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step.

Perhaps out of pure heavenly goodness the spring came and crowned everything it possibly could into that one place.

Now wash and dress yourselves.

Martha, help her to slip on her best dress.

She wore a green brocade dress and held a green parrot on her finger.

He had a red spot on each cheek.

So they chose a new spot and began again.

Tell us about the most beautiful spot on the earth.

The Hatter was the first to break the silence.

He will break a blood-vessel in one of those fits some day.

There was scarcely an interruption from any one to break the charm of its flow.

I got my traps out of the canoe and made me a nice camp in the thick woods.

We better camp here if we can find a good place; the horses is about beat out.

I clipped along, and all of a sudden I bounded right on to the ashes of a camp fire that was still smoking.

By-and-by Becky suggested that they move on again.

Colin began to move toward her, too, and Mary went with him.

When the boy began to walk by himself and even to move more quickly it was an immense relief.

The meagre Latin class recited with honor.

One wore a cap of two staring colors, denoting the class of persons to which she belonged.

Now I belong to this last-named class; and certainly my prospects of military preferment are most encouraging as well as certain.

But you have discarded your titles after the example set you by Messrs.

Accept my acknowledgments for the example you have set me, and which I intend following.

Caderousse set the example and attacked the breakfast with good appetite, praising each dish he set before his visitor.