3rd Grade Sight Words With Definition

Then they all agreed that Jim had acted very well, and was deserving to have some notice took of it, and reward.

They were soon agreed, both the princess and the shadow; but no one was to know about it before she arrived in her own kingdom.

Joe grumbled awhile; then he agreed with his friend that what daylight was left ought to be economized in getting things ready for leaving.

He took a thick knife out of his Pocket and opened one of its blades.

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

The chirp came from a thick holly bush, bright with scarlet berries, and Mary thought she knew whose it was.

At the first blow the sound ceased, as if by magic.

Directly it begun to rain, and it rained like all fury, too, and I never see the wind blow so.

A little ripply, cool breeze begun to blow, and that was as good as saying the night was about done.

At the same moment the faint report of a gun was heard.

He fancied for a moment that he had been shot, and listened for the report; but he heard nothing.

This was an awkward and unpleasant thing to have to report to those who were awaiting her return in the chamber of her father-in-law.

I went too; but as I was older than Fernand, and had just married my poor wife, I was only sent to the coast.

Why, you see, he has a good understanding with the shepherds in the plains, the fishermen of the Tiber, and the smugglers of the coast.

This new cargo was destined for the coast of the Duchy of Lucca, and consisted almost entirely of Havana cigars, sherry, and Malaga wines.

Alice had been looking over his shoulder with some curiosity.

She put her hand on his shoulder and smiled the mist out of her eyes.

Presently an old man with a spade over his shoulder walked through the door leading from the second garden.

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

His aunt Polly stood surprised a moment, and then broke into a gentle laugh.

She was about sixteen, and very sweet and gentle looking, but awful pale and scared.

Yes, to escort him into the capital.

Time passed merrily in the large town which was his capital; strangers arrived every day at the court.

I have some smuggled coffee and most capital tobacco, in a small chest in the hold, which you shall have to-morrow.

Monte Cristo shook it coldly, according to his invariable practice.

When he had got it pretty good him and the duke begun to practice it together.

These were pistols of an especial pattern, which Monte Cristo had had made for target practice in his own room.

Her eyes had a sharp, curious look.

Dickon was watching him with sharp eyes.

At first the robin watched Mary and Colin with sharp anxiety.

Caderousse remained for a moment aghast under the weight of such an idea.

He hoped that the weight of earth would not be so great that he could not overcome it.

The slow days drifted on, and each left behind it a slightly lightened weight of apprehension.

It was a poor thin back to look at when it was bared.

A neat, thin old man stood near the manservant who opened the door for them.

She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression.

set fire to the famous temple of Diana, in order to.

I had known the famous Vampa for more than ten years.

They had a famous fried-egg feast that night, and another on Friday morning.

There was a weak attempt at applause, but it died early.

Tom and Huck rose up, weak but vastly relieved, and stared after them through the chinks between the logs of the house.

But the little tailor was much too weak to hold the tree, and when the giant let it go, it sprang back again, and the tailor was tossed into the air with it.

Then he could easily guess what had happened, and much grief reigned in the royal court.

No one could guess what the dirty rag could be; I alone suspected that it was the waistcoat of the murdered man.

The fourth had to carry in a dish that was covered, and the lord told the doctor that he was to show his skill, and guess what was beneath the cover.

I would have saved Madame de Saint-Meran, if science could have done it; but she is dead and my duty regards the living.

A few words he let fall showed them that he was no stranger to the sciences, and he seemed much occupied with chemistry.

I began to think of genii, sylphs, gnomes, in short, of all the ministers of the occult sciences, until I laughed aloud at the freaks of my own imagination.

And that was Policar Morrel, my uncle, who was afterwards a captain.

Your uncle Silas knowed a family in Baton Rouge that knowed his people very well.

I said I believed my uncle Abner Moore would take care of me, and so that was why I struck out for this town of Goshen.

The three weeks he spent on his back this time seemed an entire age.

The entire chamber was lined with crimson brocade, worked with flowers of gold.

Then the entire village was dead, and the small peasant, as sole heir, became a rich man.

Give him a direct invitation, but do not ask me to present him.

When he had finished his supper the man asked him if he could direct him to the castle of Stromberg.

He resolved, therefore, to let things take their course without making any direct overture to the count.

He actually had stopped screaming because she had startled him so.

To her surprise the surly old weather-beaten face actually changed its expression.

Dickon looked actually relieved as soon as the surprise died away from his round face.

However, he did not express his thoughts aloud.

From Pontoise another express was sent to the next stage, and in six hours all the horses stationed on the road were ready.

Why, I made a vocabulary of the words I knew; turned, returned, and arranged them, so as to enable me to express my thoughts through their medium.

Jim talked out loud all the time while I was talking to myself.

The duke went down into his carpet-bag, and fetched up a lot of little printed bills and read them out loud.

When she had reached the place where the door hid itself under the ivy, she was startled by a curious loud sound.

"You won't lose your place," said Mary.

My father won't let people talk me over either.

"These won't grow up in a night," said Weatherstaff.

Mercedes drew near, and plucked the fruit.

He had a remarkably fine garden, full of vegetables, flowers, and fruit.

The child ate some fruit and biscuits, and being thirsty she drank a glass of wine which stood nearly filled.

This the pewter soldier did not believe.

Judge Thatcher hoped to see Tom a great lawyer or a great soldier some day.

And the old lady gave the old soldier alms, and went into the church with Karen.

Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing.

Albert was drawing on the satin pantaloon over his black trousers and varnished boots.

At this challenge, Vampa rose quickly, drawing at the same moment a pistol from his girdle.

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

The little steam ferry-boat was about a mile below the village, drifting with the current.

This second night we run between seven and eight hours, with a current that was making over four mile an hour.

So Edmond had to separate the branches or brush away the moss to know where the guide-marks were.

Now a weird flash turned night into day and showed every little grassblade, separate and distinct, that grew about their feet.

They had been unable to decide whether they would keep together and have the things in common, or whether they would separate.

Villefort by a strong effort sought to control himself.

Mary did not even try to control her rage and humiliation.

The countenance of this man, who possessed such extraordinary control over his feelings, expressed the most perfect cordiality.

There was no other process that ever they had heard of.

The dressing process was one which taught them both something.

It really did look like a procession.

You, madame, have only sought to increase your own, and I am convinced that you have succeeded.

He will increase in strength and honor by struggling with adversity, which he will convert into prosperity.

But these forces increase as we go higher, so that we have a spiral which in defiance of reason rests upon the apex and not on the base.

While speaking, Caderousse went on peeling a fresh supply of onions.

Ferrea, banker at Nice, and also a letter of introduction to the Count of Monte Cristo, whom I have directed to supply all your wants.

Yes, but they will make you then sign your declaration, and confront you with him you have denounced; I will supply you with the means of supporting your accusation, for I know the fact well.

You are aware what huge whitings are served to us on maigre days.

The road led them across a heath upon which huge pieces of rock lay strewn about.

It was a continual scratching, as if made by a huge claw, a powerful tooth, or some iron instrument attacking the stones.