5th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

These two gentlemen shall decide between us; but, first, I will state the case to them.

Emmanuel hesitated a moment, but his desire to make Julie decide immediately made him reply.

It was really this mention of Dickon which made Mary decide to go out, though she was not aware of it.

Suddenly Edmond saw the gloomy, pale, and threatening countenance of Fernand, as it was defined in the shadow.

She must be less delicate before she begins lessons.

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

None but a real Princess could have had such a delicate sense of feeling.

You recollect that sad night, when you were half-expiring on that bed in the red damask room, while I, scarcely less agitated than you, awaited your delivery.

They had long since passed to dessert and cigars.

I shall come back to dessert; keep me some strawberries, coffee, and cigars.

During dessert, the servant inquired at what time they wished for the carriage.

This nightmare occupied some ten pages of manuscript and wound up with a sermon so destructive of all hope to non-Presbyterians that it took the first prize.

s throne, or the still more tragic destruction of the empire.

Then he went tearing around the house again spreading chaos and destruction in his path.

He had a dirty little room close by the pigsty; and there he sat the whole day, and worked.

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

It was a dirty, littered-up place, and had ink marks, and handbills with pictures of horses and runaway niggers on them, all over the walls.

That was one of her unhappy, disagreeable ways.

Danglars was disagreeable, certainly, but I know how much you care for his ill-humor.

This afternoon he did not give any medicine or leave any new orders and he was spared any disagreeable scenes.

He had scarcely advanced three leagues out of Rome when daylight began to disappear.

Dantes saw the light gradually disappear, and fearing to be surprised in the cavern, left it, his gun in his hand.

Franz was too far off to hear what they said; but, without doubt, nothing hostile passed, for he saw Albert disappear arm-in-arm with the peasant girl.

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.

At first she had disliked her very much, but now she did not.

Mary had been taught very little because her governesses had disliked her too much to stay with her.

She had never felt sorry for herself; she had only felt tired and cross, because she disliked people and things so much.

At first the captain had received Dantes on board with a certain degree of distrust.

However, Jacopo insisted on following him, and Dantes did not oppose this, fearing if he did so that he might incur distrust.

Why, my dear mother, it is necessary, in order to make your advice turn to account, that I should know beforehand what I have to distrust.

I only drove over it in the dark.

Then we took the trunk and put it in my wagon, and he drove off his way and I drove mine.

Ben drove his spade deep and looked as uncompanionable as he had looked when she first saw him.

Vampa was twelve, and Teresa eleven.

At this moment the clock struck eleven.

I was itching in eleven different places now.

From that time I looked upon this fortune as something confided to me for an especial purpose.

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

Diable, when a churchman is killed, it should be with a different weapon than a log, especially when he has behaved like a father.

This was an excellent opportunity to have said something clever.

No matter; he is an excellent fellow, and we must not leave him.

I made myself some excellent ones, which would be universally preferred to all others if once known.

Teresa was lively and gay, but coquettish to excess.

That was agreeable, so they chewed it turn about, and dangled their legs against the bench in excess of contentment.

Meanwhile the heat became excessive.

She tried to excuse herself by saying that she would not be able to find the way thither.

Then the golden hair streamed forth, and let the boy excuse himself as he might, it was of no use.

I beg you, therefore, to excuse if you find anything in me too Turkish, too Italian, or too Arabian.

The rock, already shaken by the explosion, tottered on its base.

There was a lagging, anxious silence, and then all of a sudden there was an explosion of firearms and a cry.

Every little while some giant tree yielded the fight and fell crashing through the younger growth; and the unflagging thunderpeals came now in ear-splitting explosive bursts, keen and sharp, and unspeakably appalling.

We made an extra steering-oar, too, because one of the others might get broke on a snag or something.

They actually awoke to the fact that as Mrs. Sowerby had fourteen people to provide food for she might not have enough to satisfy two extra appetites every day.

The worthy sergeant had recognized the minister's secretary and the millionnaire, and, by way of paying extra attention to his noble neighbors, promised to keep their places while they paid a visit to Beauchamp.

Mary knew the fair young man who looked like a boy.

Jim hitched it behind with the hooks, and it was a fair fit.

She was with a fair young man and they stood talking together in low strange voices.

Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high.

Tom came up to the fence and leaned on it, grieving, and hoping she would tarry yet awhile longer.

I went down to the front garden and clumb over the stile where you go through the high board fence.

Well, all at once here comes a canoe; just a beauty, too, about thirteen or fourteen foot long, riding high like a duck.

You could buy both potatoes and eggs and eat as many as you liked without feeling as if you were taking food out of the mouths of fourteen people.

Here Edmond was to undergo another trial; he was to find out whether he could recognize himself, as he had not seen his own face for fourteen years.

Death is now, perhaps, striking a fourth blow.

On the fourth, he was no longer a man, but a living corpse.

For the first three days I heard him walking about as usual, but, on the fourth I heard nothing.

The bird's duty was to fly daily into the wood and bring in fuel; the mouse fetched the water, and the sausage saw to the cooking.

The giant showed him a bed, and said he was to lie down in it and sleep.

Then the giant picked up a stone and threw it so high that the eye could scarcely follow it.

The little tailor began his game again, picked out the biggest stone, and threw it with all his might on the breast of the first giant.