1st Grade Spelling Words With Example

The train had stopped at a station and Mrs. Medlock was shaking her.

Teresa saw herself rich, superbly attired, and attended by a train of liveried domestics.

The station was a small one and nobody but themselves seemed to be getting out of the train.

Before long the cat was seized by another fit of yearning.

Jim hitched it behind with the hooks, and it was a fair fit.

In the eyes of everybody it seemed fit for table, and preserved its wholesome appearance.

They had concealed a natural chasm which led under the rock.

The money was soon in the bags and the boys took it up to the cross rock.

Four avenues opened out of the small cavern which the great rock stood in.

So they went to the mountains; and as it was a lovely day, they stayed there till the evening.

Now they were seven little dwarfs, that lived among the mountains, and dug and searched for gold.

About this time, a band of brigands that had established itself in the Lepini mountains began to be much spoken of.

Becky snatched at the book to close it, and had the hard luck to tear the pictured page half down the middle.

At that moment a shadow fell on the page and Tom Sawyer stepped in at the door and caught a glimpse of the picture.

Tom counted the pages of the sermon; after church he always knew how many pages there had been, but he seldom knew anything else about the discourse.

The village went to its rest on Tuesday night, sad and forlorn.

But he made a sad business of it with his unsteady hand, and a smothered titter rippled over the house.

The villagers began to gather, loitering a moment in the vestibule to converse in whispers about the sad event.

He seemed scarcely five and thirty.

The other fellow was about thirty, and dressed about as ornery.

She did not mind much, because she had already counted up to thirty.

He was sick, he said, and he looked it.

Pap was standing over me looking sour and sick, too.

She put her hands over her ears and felt sick and shivering.

This was not the garden which was shut up.

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

The King turned pale, and shut his note-book hastily.

Mary felt as if she were in the forest with them.

The walls were covered with tapestry with a forest scene embroidered on it.

Just here the blast of a toy tin trumpet came faintly down the green aisles of the forest.

The poor animal kicked; the girl laughed, and pulled Gerda into bed with her.

The animal was strong and handsome, and away they went at full gallop round the lawn.

Mary had never possessed an animal pet of her own and had always thought she should like one.

He was a tall boy and a handsome one.

She was tall and of slender figure, and of a dazzling whiteness.

At the end of half an hour they were wading through the tall grass of the graveyard.

He was admitted daily after that, but was warned to keep still about his adventure and introduce no exciting topic.

He had little to bite and to break, and once when great dearth fell on the land, he could no longer procure even daily bread.

The majority of the searchers had given up the quest and gone back to their daily avocations, saying that it was plain the children could never be found.

He moved away and joined a group of boys and girls and began to talk.

She went straight to the group of which her husband formed the centre.

So the one went off with one group of scholars, and the other with another.

And here, madame, I must add another word of explanation.

Yes, sir; and I can even add that I have only just left his company.

It is needless to add that there were gold and silver fish in the basin.

And from this time the kindness which Edmond showed him was enough for the brave seaman.

But they were all ashamed of their weakness, and none was brave enough to speak his thought.

Selim had also recognized him, but the brave young man only acknowledged one duty, which was to obey.

Madame Danglars mechanically took the check, the bond, and the heap of bank-notes.

Presently Tom checked his whistle.

There was a ripple of mirth, which the court checked.

The moon drifted from behind the clouds and exposed the pallid face.

I see the moon go off watch, and the darkness begin to blanket the river.

The moon was shining, and outside of the shadows it made it most as light as day.

Well, these twelve thousand livres are his civil list, and are as essential to him as the twelve millions of a king.

When he had run over all these names in his memory, again read and studied them, commenting meanwhile upon his lists, he shook his head.

Injun Joe's cup stands first in the list of the cavern's marvels; even "Aladdin's Palace" cannot rival it.

Those muffins look so nice and hot.

She had never seen such a funny boy, or such a nice one.

One of the nice little gusts of wind rushed down the walk, and it was a stronger one than the rest.

I did wish Tom Sawyer was there; I knowed he would take an interest in this kind of business, and throw in the fancy touches.

I reached for some of it as quick as I could to throw over my left shoulder and keep off the bad luck, but Miss Watson was in ahead of me, and crossed me off.

Aunt Polly entered in time to see him throw a few double summersets, deliver a final mighty hurrah, and sail through the open window, carrying the rest of the flower-pots with him.

The drive across the wonderfulness of the moor was a soothing thing.

He approached the window, and saw his father get into it, and drive away.

They were to drive over the moor and lunch out of doors among the heather.

The men ripped around awhile, and then rode away.

He grabbed his gun and rode straight to the place where we was hid.

Then the shepherd jumped upon the horse, wished Hans and the cow good morning, and away he rode.

She put the key in her pocket and walked up and down her walk.

He knelt down by the sofa and took a feeding-bottle from his pocket.

They sat down and he took a clumsy little brown paper package out of his coat pocket.

She dropped the sentence where it was.

Her lips were about to pass his sentence of life or death.

I am going down there to pronounce the sentence of death against a murderer.

She did not cry, but ground her teeth.

One of his upper front teeth was loose.

It is surprising how well you preserve your teeth, Miss, said the collar.

All the rest of the square was paved with heads.

We want to be awful square and open and above-board here, you know.

On the spot it had occupied was a circular space, exposing an iron ring let into a square flag-stone.

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

A slow smile spread over it and the gardener looked quite different.

He thought that the slow movements might mean that he was preparing to pounce, as cats do.

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

If you have, and they catch you, it will be a bad job for you.

He had also contrived to catch a few bats, and these, also, he had eaten, leaving only their claws.

As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose.

Basil was a little boy with impudent blue eyes and a turned-up nose, and Mary hated him.

He did look funny and delightful, Mary thought, with his round blue eyes and red cheeks and happy looking turned-up nose.

He followed after thee yesterday.

They was quite in a pother yesterday.

I stopped in her cottage on my way to Thwaite yesterday and had a bit of talk with her.

One could have heard a pin drop.

Martha let her knitting drop on her knee and gazed at her with startled eyes.

And this, if you please, this is what Ben Weatherstaff beheld and which made his jaw drop.

The island was three mile long.

It was on a hill, about a mile and a half from the village.

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

Between the two baskets he placed a small silver cup with a silver cover.

Then she made Colin a cup of beef tea and gave a cup to Mary, who really was very glad to get it after her excitement.

So his mother undressed him, put him to bed, and had the tea-pot brought in, to make him a good cup of Elderflower tea.

They used to dance round and sing at me.

But then she went to the ball and began to dance.

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

When I had typhoid fever his face got quite fat.

The good advice was followed, and a pot of fat was bought, but they did not know where to put it.

She went straight to the church, stole to the pot of fat, began to lick at it, and licked the top of the fat off.