4th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

de Boville, the inspector of prisons, to whom they are due.

I consult them when doubtful, and if I ever do any good, it is due to their beneficent counsels.

That night a memorable event occurred, due, no doubt, to the imprudence of some servant who had neglected to extinguish the lights.

Oh, that is very easily arranged.

The ways of justice are frequently too dark and mysterious to be easily penetrated.

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

He erased it once more and then took himself out of temptation by driving the other boys together and joining them.

His name, or rather a plaintive voice which essayed to pronounce his name, reached him.

And, to complete his resemblance with the fantastic heroes of the English poet, the count seemed to have the power of fascination.

The violets exhaled their sweet breath, whilst I pressed against the windowpanes covered with fantastic frost-work the copper coin I had heated on the stove, and so made peep-holes.

The drawing-rooms were decorated with the rarest pictures by the old masters, the boudoirs hung with draperies from China, of fanciful colors, fantastic design, and wonderful texture.

It was the fault of that blockhead Pastrini, that I did not sooner assist you in your distress.

Not long after a suitor appeared, and as he appeared to be very rich and the miller could see nothing in him with which to find fault, he betrothed his daughter to him.

"You know it is not my fault," said Morrel.

I felt easy and happy and light as a feather right off.

The golden feather was brought to the king in the morning, and all the council was called together.

But the arrow did the bird no harm; only it dropped a golden feather from its tail, and then flew away.

Because the fifth is dead, as I hear.

I like you, and you make the fifth person.

At the fifth or sixth blow the pickaxe struck against an iron substance.

A last but final hope was concealed by the young man in the effect of this interview, and therefore he had suggested it.

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

Oh, it is very well as a finish to the toilet.

There was abundance of cold water to finish the feast with.

She did not finish the sentence, because the door opened, and Mrs. Medlock walked in.

He must not talk too much; he must not forget that he was ill; he must not forget that he was very easily tired.

During those years he had only wished to forget him.

Mary thought that there seemed to be a number of uncomfortable things he was not to forget.

Providence had stood by me this fur all right, but I was hard and tight aground now.

So then I got a shovel, and then we picked and shoveled, turn about, and made the fur fly.

My tale is done, there runs a mouse; whosoever catches it, may make himself a big fur cap out of it.

Then they piled on great dead boughs till they had a roaring furnace, and were gladhearted once more.

There in the palace at Sheffield they've got furnaces, and he wants his water hot.

It was a big room with ancient, handsome furniture in it.

All his furniture consisted of a bed, a chair, a table, a pail, and a jug.

There were curious pieces of furniture and curious ornaments in nearly all of them.

It is late, and the governor is asleep.

"It is not ill-planned," said the governor.

"Counting his treasures," replied the governor.

The baroness returned the salute in the most smiling and graceful manner.

Her graceful form, arrayed in snowy robes, is whirling through the mazes of the joyous dance; her eye is brightest, her step is lightest in the gay assembly.

A rich uniform, half French, half Oriental, set off his graceful and stalwart figure, and his broad chest was decorated with the order of the Legion of Honor.

Indeed, I expected it, for it is a family inheritance; both my father and grandfather died of it in a third attack.

One look was sufficient to tell her that her grandfather was suffering, and that there was much on his mind which he was wishing to communicate to her.

He told, too, how he had heard from his grandfather that many, many princes had come, and had tried to break through the thicket, but that they had all stuck fast in it, and died.

And then his grandmother patted his head and told him other stories.

An old grandmother was sitting in the air; her grand-daughter, the poor and lovely servant just come for a short visit.

The Snow Queen kissed Kay once more, and then he forgot little Gerda, grandmother, and all whom he had left at his home.

But his opponent did not allow his guard to be broken.

I must go into the forest and guard my treasures from the wicked dwarfs.

But at the outset it seemed necessary to be on guard against the other two.

He called to him to stop, but the guest pretended not to hear.

Presently the guest came, and knocked politely and courteously at the house-door.

The fowls began to turn brown, and were nearly ready, but the guest had not yet arrived.

He felt as if each stroke of the hammer fell upon his heart.

Now, far away in the woods a bird called; another answered; presently the hammering of a woodpecker was heard.

And now we are by the smithy, where the fire is blazing, and where the half-naked men are banging with their hammers till the sparks fly about.

They lived together very happily, and the queen had a son.

So they were married, and lived together very happily till they died.

The wedding-feast was held, and they lived happily together a long time.

He then gave himself up to his happiness.

I owe to this worthy lord all the happiness I ever knew.

Then all anxiety was at an end, and they lived together in perfect happiness.

Of course no boy could have helped speaking then.

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

Then we helped him fix his chain back on the bed-leg, and was ready for bed ourselves.

Then we hunted up a place close by to hide the canoe in, amongst the thick willows.

She looked so sour and old-fashioned that the nurse turned her head aside to hide the twitching of her mouth.

I run in the parlor and took a swift look around, and the only place I see to hide the bag was in the coffin.

The Saturday holiday seemed a burden to the children.

Luigi wore the very picturesque garb of the Roman peasant at holiday time.

It was noon; and the weather, that had threatened rain, began to clear up, while gaily dressed holiday folks filled the streets.