3rd Grade Sight Words With Definition

I have devoted myself to industry; I study the useful arts.

Their interest grew stronger, and their industry kept pace with it.

He feels that every man owes a tribute to his country; some contribute their talents, others their industry; these devote their blood, those their nightly labors, to the same cause.

I had gone on the quay to match a piece of mulberry cloth, when I met friend Danglars.

The match went out, and so did we, and shoved in the staple again, and the door was locked as good as ever.

There was once a king, whose queen had hair of the purest gold, and was so beautiful that her match was not to be met with on the whole face of the earth.

At last luck seemed to settle and abide with Joe.

Mercedes has no fortune; I have none to settle on her.

At the end of ten minutes the vessel begins to roll heavily and settle down.

At last spring came, with its warm sunshine.

The sunshine made the whole place look different.

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

The old man was attired in a suit of glistening watered silk, trimmed with steel buttons, beautifully cut and polished.

The pedestrians ranged themselves against the walls; then the trampling of horses and the clashing of steel were heard.

He was rather thin with living on moor grass but he was as tough and wiry as if the muscle in his little legs had been made of steel springs.

He found with pleasure that his captivity had taken away nothing of his power, and that he was still master of that element on whose bosom he had so often sported as a boy.

He was safely sheltered, and yet he felt dizzy in the midst of the warring of the elements and the dazzling brightness of the lightning.

Franz perceived how completely he was in his element; and, unwilling to interfere with the pleasure he so evidently felt, took up Albert's glass, and began in his turn to survey the audience.

I should like to hear her try and repeat something now.

I only repeat what I have been told, and like my informant I can do no more.

My good friend, I can only repeat the words addressed to you by the Abbe Busoni.

Tom turned upon the back track at once, and hurried his steps.

The meal sifted out and made a little track all the way to the lake.

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

She says, Nothin will do her more good than skippin rope.

Hans takes the bacon, ties it to a rope, and drags it away behind him.

Potter and Injun Joe were carrying a handbarrow with a rope and a couple of shovels on it.

The straw, however, began to burn, broke in two pieces, and fell into the stream.

The Count of Monte Cristo turned dreadfully pale; his eye seemed to burn with a devouring fire.

So she made a fire on her hearth, and that it might burn the quicker, she lighted it with a handful of straw.

It seemed as if a flow of blood had ascended from the chest to the head.

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

The crowd moved to and fro in the rooms like an ebb and flow of turquoises, rubies, emeralds, opals, and diamonds.

So saying, Gaetano pointed in a direction in which a small vessel was making sail towards the southern point of Corsica.

The southern districts were ill-watched in particular, in consequence of the disturbances that were perpetually breaking out in Avignon, Nimes, or Uzes.

He has been here a week, with the instinct of a hound, hunting by himself.

One day Buck and me was away out in the woods hunting, and heard a horse coming.

Early next morning the forester got up and went out hunting, and when he was gone the children were still in bed.

Madame Danglars had listened to this recital with a sigh, a tear, or a shriek for every detail.

He could only be kept from furies dangerous to himself by being given his own way in every detail.

When the gnat had heard that, she flew away again, and revealed everything, down to the minutest detail, to the willow-wren.

They had come upon a whole clump of crocuses burst into purple and orange and gold.

Barrois took the glass, and, raising it to his purple lips, took about half of the liquid offered him.

de Villefort, and he thought he could see through the sheet the extended hands, the stiff neck, and the purple lips.

Then they lift and sink again, and both go under at once.

Dantes seized the handles, and strove to lift the coffer; it was impossible.

Tom could lift it, after an awkward fashion, but could not carry it conveniently.

Down one of the corridors, whose extent it was impossible to determine, rays of light were visible.

There were a great many skiffs rowing about or floating with the stream in the neighborhood of the ferryboat, but the boys could not determine what the men in them were doing.

I have told you my wish, or rather my determination.

The abbe made him smell the contents of the phial, and he again opened his eyes.

They were hungry, and the smell of the roasted kid was very savory, and your tars are not very ceremonious.

In the meantime the smell of the sweet jam rose to where the flies were sitting in great numbers, and they were attracted and descended on it in hosts.

This time Maximilian was the first to arrive.

Then arrive a crowd of policemen and constables.

Go straight on, and in the evening you will arrive at a castle.

I only stayed to go to that silly dinner party.

It seemed so silly, she said to herself, to be near it and not be able to get in.

It was a soft thing with a darling silly baby face and legs rather long for its body.

Years of grief have created an abyss between those days and the present.

Then they sat together, with a slate before them, and Tom gave Becky the pencil and held her hand in his, guiding it, and so created another surprising house.

She disturbed the old man so that he said he could most wish there hadn't ever been no snakes created.

Presently he got rather interested and suddenly made a suggestion.

Villefort shuddered at the suggestion; but he had gone too far to draw back.

Franz looked at Albert as though he had not much confidence in the suggestions of his imagination.

His visitor appeared slightly uneasy.

She had been there some moments, and had heard the last words of the visitor.

But the meeting was nearly concluded when the name of his visitor was announced.

So the student let him down, opened the sack, and set him free.

When the horseman came up, he proved to be a student, a merry fellow, who was journeying along on his nag, and singing as he went.

So the student sat himself down and waited a while; but the time hung heavy upon him, and he begged earnestly that he might ascend forthwith, for his thirst for knowledge was great.

No, no, be easy on that score; the family is extinct.

There were tender little fluting sounds here and there and everywhere, as if scores of birds were beginning to tune up for a concert.

Don't be uneasy on that score," replied Villefort; "no ceremony will be neglected in my house.

The Count of Morcerf was no favorite with his colleagues.

Tom had furnished these titles, from his favorite literature.

We need not say which portion of the garden was her favorite walk.

Our expedition lasted nearly six weeks; we had been to Lucca to take in oil, to Leghorn for English cottons, and we ran our cargo without opposition, and returned home full of joy.

He had scarcely been a week at Leghorn before the hold of his vessel was filled with printed muslins, contraband cottons, English powder, and tobacco on which the excise had forgotten to put its mark.

and t'other chap, and a long white cotton nightshirt and a ruffled nightcap to match.

His face lighted with a happy solution of his thought; he put the bark hastily in his pocket.

But excessive grief is like a storm at sea, where the frail bark is tossed from the depths to the top of the wave.

I noticed some pieces of limbs and such things floating down, and a sprinkling of bark; so I knowed the river had begun to rise.

You had five dollars and ten cents left.

Three hundred dollars is a power of money.

The sum amounted to a little over twelve thousand dollars.

His face lighted with a happy solution of his thought; he put the bark hastily in his pocket.

Instead of having watered his cabbage with arsenic, he had watered it this time with a solution of salts, having their basis in strychnine, strychnos colubrina, as the learned term it.

He did not even flutter his wings; he sat without stirring, and looked at Mary.

Sometimes the rook flapped his black wings and soared away over the tree-tops in the park.

At last he spread his wings and made a darting flight to the top of a tree, where he perched and sang loudly.

Aunt Polly was vexed to think she had overlooked that bit of circumstantial evidence, and missed a trick.

Then the prince got down and looked at her foot; and he saw, by the blood that streamed from it, what a trick she had played him.

Meanwhile the miser crept out of the bush half-naked and in a piteous plight, and began to ponder how he should take his revenge, and serve his late companion some trick.

I was concealed by a column, and might witness the whole of the terrible scene which was about to take place.

His feeble eyes endeavored to distinguish objects, and behind the bandit he saw a man enveloped in a cloak, half lost in the shadow of a stone column.

A man was seated with his elbow leaning on the column, and was reading with his back turned to the arcades, through the openings of which the new-comers contemplated him.

The result of the experiment left no doubt whatever on the mind.

His scientific experiment was quite practical and simple and there was nothing weird about it at all.

He tried one experiment after another as he felt himself gaining strength and it was Dickon who showed him the best things of all.