5th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

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

One gave her goodness, another beauty, another riches, and so on till she had all that was good in the world.

Perhaps out of pure heavenly goodness the spring came and crowned everything it possibly could into that one place.

As they came near the brook they saw something like a large grasshopper jumping towards the water, as if it were going to leap in.

Each stalk served as a perch for a grasshopper, which regaled the passers by through this Egyptian scene with its strident, monotonous note.

Thousands of grasshoppers, hidden in the bushes, chirped with a monotonous and dull note; the leaves of the myrtle and olive trees waved and rustled in the wind.

The boys drew a long, grateful breath.

Huck sank back, panting gently, but deeply, unutterably grateful.

When he got abroad at last he was hardly grateful that he had been spared, remembering how lonely was his estate, how companionless and forlorn he was.

Mary was not vain and as she had never thought much of her looks she was not greatly disturbed.

After a long talk with the harbor-master, Captain Leclere left Naples greatly disturbed in mind.

So greatly did they desire to have one, that the wife prayed for it day and night, but still they remained childless.

Aunt Polly paused, perplexed, and Tom looked for healing pity.

She started homeward, now, intending to find Tom and tell him; Tom would be thankful and their troubles would be healed.

But she never suspected that she was not an angel of healing and the balm of Gilead in disguise, to the suffering neighbors.

When young things begin to gain health they gain it rapidly.

She was one of those people who are infatuated with patent medicines and all new-fangled methods of producing health or mending it.

He was the man who had proposed to Carlini the health of their chief, and to whom Carlini replied by breaking the glass across his face.

Astonishment was at its height.

The public astonishment had reached its height.

Well, at the height of his despair God assisted him through human means.

The beetle lay there working its helpless legs, unable to turn over.

Faria had now fully regained his consciousness, but he still lay helpless and exhausted.

He had seen a hunted and helpless rabbit look as she did, with a gun levelled at its head.

His agitated features presented the appearance of pale and hideous terror.

Every criminal I condemn seems to me living evidence that I am not a hideous exception to the rest.

Madame de Villefort uttered a wild cry, and a hideous and uncontrollable terror spread over her distorted features.

Never you mind, honey, never you mind.

But bless you, honey, I doan want none.

You'd a ben down dah in de woods widout any dinner, en gittn mos' drownded, too; dat you would, honey.

He talked hopefully to Becky; but an age of anxious waiting passed and no sounds came again.

But the calm had brought a sort of courage and hope with it.

This time he thought he could detect colicky symptoms, and he began to encourage them with considerable hope.

They rose up and wandered along, hand in hand and hopeless.

Three dreadful days and nights dragged their tedious hours along, and the village sank into a hopeless stupor.

Potter lifted his face and looked around him with a pathetic hopelessness in his eyes.

The same day he was discharged from the hospital as perfectly cured; but the Shoes meanwhile remained behind.

Among the audience was the young man of the hospital, who seemed to have forgotten his adventure of the preceding night.

And he now remembered the important event of the evening before, how his head had got jammed in between the iron railings of the hospital.

They returned to the hotel; at the door Franz ordered the coachman to be ready at eight.

We all got in a big room in the hotel, and lit up some candles, and fetched in the new couple.

Well, then, you must give me your word to return immediately to your hotel, and make no attempt to follow this man to-night.

She went as before to look for him, but he slept, and it was impossible to awaken him.

There are, indeed, some things which appear so impossible that the mind does not dwell on them for an instant.

A double movement of the globe he inhabited, and of which he could feel nothing, appeared to him perfectly impossible.

The host will tell you I have three or four more, so that you will not inconvenience me in any way.

He was disagreeably surprised to see his own valet de chambre, whom he had not brought, that he might not inconvenience Monte Cristo.

No, my dear fellow, it is not at all incredible.

The school stared in perplexity at this incredible folly.

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

Tom decided that he could be independent of Becky Thatcher now.

What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.

She has fostered my independence by professedly indulging my love for liberty.

And he sprang from the rock in order to inspect the base on which it had formerly stood.

So the boy eagerly drew his sore toe from under the sheet and held it up for inspection.

He picked up and inspected several large semi-cylinders of the thin white bark of a sycamore, and finally chose two which seemed to suit him.

Your interview will be private.

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

And desirous of putting an end to the interview, he pushed by her, and closed the door, as if to exclude the pain he felt.

He smiled; the infernal invention would serve him for this purpose.

You got to invent all the difficulties.

The young girl then continued, speaking slowly, like a person who is either inventing or suppressing some feature of the history which he is relating.

Still I was but an agent, led on by an invisible and offended Deity, who chose not to withhold the fatal blow that I was destined to hurl.

The boudoir up-stairs communicated with the bed-chamber by an invisible door on the staircase; it was evident that every precaution had been taken.

So communing with himself, Huck stepped out and glided along behind the men, cat-like, with bare feet, allowing them to keep just far enough ahead not to be invisible.

Yes; but we do not invite people of fashion.

He was an old friend of mine and if he had not so bad a memory he ought to invite me to your wedding, seeing he came to mine.

The bridegroom arrived and also a large company of guests, for the miller had taken care to invite all his friends and relations.