2nd Grade Sight Words With Definition

He had followed his own path, and had reached the spot just as soon as the son of the king had done.

Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard.

Then the second son was ordered to watch; and at midnight he too fell asleep, and in the morning another apple was gone.

She could run faster, and longer, and she could skip up to a hundred.

Here was another locked door added to the hundred in the strange house.

Sometimes people went to sleep in them for a hundred years, which she had thought must be rather stupid.

He could not recollect that the closing word had ever been applied in his case before.

Every boy and girl had a theory about the nature of that book; but no two theories were alike, and there was no way of getting at the facts in the case.

The part of the body most difficult to manage on such occasions was, no doubt, the head; here, as is so often the case in the world, long-headed people get through best.

I like you, and you make the fifth person.

It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled.

He looked like a person listening to a new sound in the distance and wondering what it was.

Perhaps everything is dead in it already.

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

Presently he did a few gently while he stood upon his already steadied feet.

Perhaps the fact that she was in a rebellious mood made her bold.

She could see nothing, in fact, but a dense darkness on either side.

But, in fact, he did not object to her as strongly as he had at first.

He sent them word I had not gone.

The Duchess took her choice, and was gone in a moment.

She had finished her dinner and gone to her favorite seat on the hearth-rug.

She had never known it to be so silent before.

But she had not known him long enough to be sure.

That was a wise thought; matches were hardly known there in that day.

There would be a new Ayah, and perhaps she would know some new stories.

She supposed that perhaps this was the English way of treating children.

These had been left to themselves for ten years and perhaps they had spread, like the snowdrops, into thousands.

And she was quite sure she was.

He had meant that she might be sure he would keep her secret.

She listened for a few minutes and each minute she became more and more sure.

Mother always knows what a body means.

Birds is rare choosers an a robin can flout a body worse than a man.

He had a tiny plump body and a delicate beak, and slender delicate legs.

The wind itself had ceased and a brilliant, deep blue sky arched high over the moorland.

She did not know what it was, because at first she could scarcely distinguish it from the wind itself.

She drew up the blinds and opened the window itself and a great waft of fresh, scented air blew in upon her.

She hurled one in return, and the angry breach was complete.

Susan Sowerby got up at last to return to the house and Mrs. Medlock.

No, he would be a soldier, and return after long years, all war-worn and illustrious.

She could see nothing, in fact, but a dense darkness on either side.

There were bare flower-beds on either side of it and against the walls ivy grew thickly.

Most strangers thought he must be either half mad or a man with some hidden crime on his soul.

The law backs that old Judge Thatcher up and helps him to keep me out o my property.

A few words sufficed for a mutual understanding between the two officers of the law.

Colin had been instructed as to the law of whispers and low voices several days before.

When she awakened she lay and stared at the wall.

He lay thinking a few minutes, as he had done before, and then he spoke again.

He dropped back on his pillow and lay there with an odd expression on his face.

Mary alternately cried and slept through the hours.

Mrs. Thatcher recognized the ribbon and cried over it.

They cried with them, too, and that was still better than words.

The Caterpillar was the first to speak.

The servants are not allowed to speak about me.

This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak again.

The afternoon was dragging towards its mellow hour.

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

Every moment of the afternoon was full of new things and every hour the sunshine grew more golden.

She held her hands tighter and turned her eyes toward him.

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

It held two thick pieces of bread with a slice of something laid between them.

Baron, send for the minister of war.

Not long afterwards, the country was overrun by war.

He no longer took an interest in war, nor even in piracy.

Hardly a word was said during the next three-quarters of an hour.

There was no Sabbath-school during day-school vacation, but everybody was early at church.

They were telling each other, with a confidential interchange of ideas, where they had been during the day.

Colin had been instructed as to the law of whispers and low voices several days before.

She surprised him several times by seeming to start up beside him as if she sprang out of the earth.

Mary had worn her contrary scowl for an hour after that, but it made her think several entirely new things.

She wondered what it would look like and whether there were any flowers still alive in it.

In the first place, as she began to like to be with him, she wanted to discover whether he was the kind of boy you could tell a secret to.

By and by, Mr. Dobbins straightened himself up, yawned, then unlocked his desk, and reached for his book, but seemed undecided whether to take it out or leave it.

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

She sank to the ground and burst into such a frenzy of crying that Tom was appalled with the idea that she might die, or lose her reason.

It was talked about, gloated over, glorified, until the reason of many of the citizens tottered under the strain of the unhealthy excitement.

The spectacle took the general breath away.

As a general thing it makes a body wish he was dead, too, and done with it all.

There was a gate, but as a general thing he was too crowded for time to make use of it.

A certain Amy Lawrence vanished out of his heart and left not even a memory of herself behind.

And then she took a long breath and looked behind her up the long walk to see if any one was coming.

When the door closed behind Martha, Colin found Mistress Mary gazing at him as if he had set her wondering.

She gradually ceased crying and became quiet.

Mary became quite still and Colin looked fretful.

During that week of sunshine, she became more intimate with Ben Weatherstaff.

Tom had become indifferent to persecution by this time.

I asked him what was become of young Harney and Miss Sophia.

It suddenly dawned on Tom that it was become very lonely and still.

The sum amounted to a little over twelve thousand dollars.

There was as much as a thousand people there from twenty mile around.

He showed her ten thousand new green points pushing through the mould.

She never dared even to ask a question.

Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another question.

But just before Martha went downstairs for the tea-tray, Mary asked a question.

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

She wondered also who would take care of her now her Ayah was dead.

In India she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything.

Well, I must detain you some time longer, but I will strive to make it as short as possible.

It did not seem possible that he could be the crazy creature who had screamed and beaten and bitten his pillow.

He went to the best inn, ordered himself handsome clothes, and then bade the landlord furnish him a room as handsome as possible.

I kept all my limbs very supple.

She went slowly and kept her eyes on the ground.

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

That made Mrs. Medlock laugh a short sort of laugh.

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

But it must have fallen short or gone too far; so he tried twice more.

All the town was drifting toward the graveyard.

Now the raft was passing before the distant town.

They sprang to their feet and hurried to the shore toward the town.

You asked me the cause of my being late, and why I come disguised.

Cocles had seen them go without thinking of inquiring the cause of their departure.

Then every one could understand the cause of the unearthly pallor in the young girl and the bandit.