2nd Grade Spelling Words With Definition

A man like Danglars was wholly inaccessible to any gentler method of correction.

This would have been a method of reckoning time, had not Dantes long ceased to do so.

Believe me, to seek a quarrel with a man is a bad method of pleasing the woman who loves that man.

Their parents lived exactly opposite.

There was exactly one a-piece all round.

He went to her and stood a moment, not knowing exactly how to proceed.

The thing was discussed for a long time, but finally decided in his favor.

The rock yielded, rolled over, bounded from point to point, and finally disappeared in the ocean.

However, he reached the shore finally, and drifted along till he found a low place and drew himself out.

This and some dried fruits and a flask of Monte Pulciano, was the bill of fare.

I have no money to pay my bill, but I am not a dishonest man; I leave behind me as a pledge this pin, worth ten times the amount.

The duke he hired the court house, and we went around and stuck up our bills.

Now he lapsed into suffering again, as the dry argument was resumed.

Oh, it is dry again, and is not hurt at all; the string is quite tight.

And Gerda was so glad to be on dry land again; but she was rather afraid of the strange old woman.

The gloomy building rose from the bosom of the ocean with imposing majesty and seemed to dominate the scene.

A figure crept stealthily through a break in the other end of the ruined building, now, but they did not notice it.

He had reserved the house and half the garden, and building a wall between the garden and the workshops, had let them upon lease with the pavilions at the bottom of the garden.

What Ben Weatherstaff did Mary thought queer beyond measure.

The rich shoemaker in the city took the measure of her little foot.

Unfortunately, there are great words, as there are great men; I have measured them.

The Knave did so, very carefully, with one foot.

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

The odd companionship, the play acting, the great secret so carefully kept.

Jim got down on his knees, and put his ear against it and listened.

Just at this juncture the boy felt a slow, fateful grip closing on his ear, and a steady lifting impulse.

She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a little startled when she heard her voice close to her ear.

I got out amongst the driftwood, and then laid down in the bottom of the canoe and let her float.

The water was three or four foot deep on the island in the low places and on the Illinois bottom.

We cleared everything out of the way, about four or five foot along the middle of the bottom log.

There was an unusual amount of talk.

This treasure, which may amount to two.

know of the existence of this treasure, which may amount to nearly two mil.

She did not feel cross when Martha chattered away.

She was cross and disappointed but not at all sorry for Colin.

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

The tears lay very near the surface.

A convulsive movement again brought him to the surface.

I had turned up the earth over a surface of more than twenty feet square, and a depth of two feet.

The change in the weather seemed to have done him good.

We was down south in the warm weather now, and a mighty long ways from home.

But you never know what the weather will do in Yorkshire, particularly in the springtime.

It flies nineteen million times faster than the best race-horse; and yet electricity is quicker still.

This, reckoning his loss, and what he had missed gaining, made the difference of a million to Danglars.

The first year he offered government a million of francs for his release; the second, two; the third, three; and so on progressively.

The Cadets paraded in a style calculated to kill the late member with envy.

Some thought it would be good to kill the families of boys that told the secrets.

But Tom give him five cents to keep quiet, and said we would all go home and meet next week, and rob somebody and kill some people.

Yes, we do; you see them whenever God pleases to allow them to assume a material form.

There was no lack of material; boys happened along every little while; they came to jeer, but remained to whitewash.

The history which he related to me of his lost son touched me to the quick; indeed, his griefs, hopes, and fears on that subject might furnish material for a most touching and pathetic poem.

The valley was very, very still.

He left the valley and went on his wandering way again.

With that he put his money into his purse, and set out, roaming over hill and valley.

Meanwhile the heat became excessive.

This order to heat the irons made Dantes shudder.

There was such a heat inside that the Finland woman herself went about almost naked.

You do beat all for natural stupidness.

They both felt their pulses beat faster.

I never see the beat of it in all my born days.

Mary had begun to listen in spite of herself.

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

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

He said he could size their style.

He then imagined he had got into a needle-case full of pointed needles of every size.

Boys of his own size pretended not to know he had been away at all; but they were consuming with envy, nevertheless.

And the sun is only slipping over the edge.

He sat and gazed at the sunlit water and his eyes began to see things growing at its edge.

However, at last she stretched her arms round it as far as they would go, and broke off a bit of the edge with each hand.

There is no knowing what may happen.

Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen.

Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if anything would EVER happen in a natural way again.

Now this fairy could take any shape she pleased.

Well, by the end of three weeks everything was in pretty good shape.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

Monte Cristo looked in turn at the two iron handles by which the machine was worked.

Alas, yes; the poor old gentleman is entirely helpless; the mind alone is still active in this human machine, and that is faint and flickering, like the light of a lamp about to expire.

Divers descended in machines, made expressly on the discovery, into the bay where they were thrown; but of ten three only remained, the rest having been broken by the waves.

The Councillor saw quite distinctly before him a lantern burning, and behind this a large handsome house.

Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her.

The guest, however, thought no otherwise than that he was to give up one of his ears, and ran as if fire were burning under him, in order to take them both with him.

The point was, then, to discover the hidden entrance.

I did all in my power to discover the murderers, but no one durst tell me their names, so much were they dreaded.

Then he destroyed the second portion, assured that if the first were seized, no one would be able to discover its real meaning.

It was far away, but it was inside.

She was standing inside the secret garden.

She hoped he was not going to stay inside and she pushed the door open wondering if he would.

Then something began pushing things up out of the soil and making things out of nothing.

Where gardening is done all sorts of delightful things to eat are turned up with the soil.

After he had turned a few trowelfuls of soil he spoke exultantly to Dickon in his best Yorkshire.

Yes, that the usual phrase; I am quite familiar with it.

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

He was given to using rather grown-up phrases at times.

They were a nice agreeable pair as they glared at each other.

In the midst of the shoes stood a pair of red ones, just like those the princess had worn.

Martha found her coat and hat for her and a pair of stout little boots and she showed her her way downstairs.

If you please, let me explain.

I will candidly explain the reason of both, and I trust to your goodness to pardon me.

I do not know enough about the wonderfulness of undiscovered things to be able to explain how this had happened to him.

I can scarcely contain myself at the bare idea.

There were four or five more in the emerald, which would contain about a dozen.

This time Franz could contain himself no longer, but sank, half fainting, into a seat.

The sum amounted to a little over twelve thousand dollars.

So vast a sum, all in actual cash, seemed next to incredible.

Thus seven or eight hundred piastres were wanting to them both to make up the sum that Albert required.

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

Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join the dance.

Would not, could not, would not, could not, would not join the dance.

Each day he grew stronger and could walk more steadily and cover more ground.

When he had carefully locked the door, he lifted up the cover, and saw a white snake lying on the dish.

The cover rose more and more; and the Elder-flowers came forth so fresh and white, and shot up long branches.