5th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

She pushed poor Gretel out to the oven, from which flames of fire were already darting.

Like her sister she awoke in the beautiful meadow, and walked over it till she came to the oven.

And once Gretel was inside, she intended to shut the oven and let her bake in it, and then she would eat her, too.

They sat down and he took a clumsy little brown paper package out of his coat pocket.

There was a wooden box on the table and its cover had been removed and revealed that it was full of neat packages.

He untied the string and inside there were ever so many neater and smaller packages with a picture of a flower on each one.

I buckled to my paddle and they laid to their oars.

Jim cleaned up the canoe, and I got my paddle ready.

And then I can paddle over to town nights, and slink around and pick up things I want.

I need not say I think you are too faithful and too kind to have spoken of that painful circumstance.

Thus passed the first miles; and then the Raven bade her farewell, and this was the most painful separation of all.

With his instinctive delicacy Edmond had preferred avoiding any touch on this painful chord, and Faria had been equally silent.

The sound had come up that passage.

He proposed to explore another passage.

Down this passage and then to the left, and then up two broad steps, and then to the right again.

One of them went away, and Dantes heard his shoes striking on the pavement.

These words were lost in the noise which the carriage made in rolling over the pavement of La Villette.

Monte Cristo opened the carriage-door, Morrel sprang out on the pavement, Bertuccio was waiting on the steps.

Danglars waited a moment, expecting the postilion to come and demand payment with the termination of his stage.

You had dreamed that a ship had entered the harbor at Havre, that this ship brought news that a payment we had looked upon as lost was going to be made.

At length she took the shoes off, and then her legs had peace.

His soul was at peace, now that he had settled with Sid for calling attention to his black thread and getting him into trouble.

But the old king begged so hard, that she had no peace till she had told him all the tale, from beginning to end, word for word.

THE sun rose upon a tranquil world, and beamed down upon the peaceful village like a benediction.

But he was sleeping, and sleeping very peaceful, too; and pale, not fire-faced the way he was when he come.

Emmanuel did not conceal his joy at the peaceful termination of the affair, and was loud in his expressions of delight.

de Villefort moved in the first Parisian circles, less owing to his social position than to his personal merit.

Danglars accompanied him to the door, where he again assured Albert that no motive of personal hatred had influenced him against the Count of Morcerf.

Franz felt a shudder run through his veins at observing that the feeling of the duke and the countess was so much in unison with his own personal disquietude.

I like you, and you make the fifth person.

It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled.

He looked like a person listening to a new sound in the distance and wondering what it was.

Doan talk to me bout yo pints.

In winter there was an end of this pleasure.

Unfortunately the pleasure lasted but a moment.

Everything was so nice that her pleasure began to crowd her anger out of her mind.

I extended my hand, and was about to pledge myself by any promise he would dictate, but he stopped me.

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.

I have but one promise and but one heart to give; that promise is pledged to you, that heart is also yours.

Buck said she could rattle off poetry like nothing.

And up he flew into the green roof and sang; but in the song there was no poetry, for the spirit of the poet was gone.

A man who accustoms himself to live in such a world of poetry and imagination must find far too little excitement in a common, every-day sort of attachment such as ours.

The cook, however, came up to them, and when she saw the pond she lay down by it, and was about to drink it up.

When his request was granted he set out on his way, and one day came to a pond, where he saw three fishes caught in the reeds and gasping for water.

And pour the waters of the Nile.

I shall leave you the saucepan, and pour your soup into that.

If, after having made me swallow twelve drops instead of ten, you see that I do not recover, then pour the rest down my throat.

I was most powerful sick, and slunk to a chair and set down.

It was a powerful fine sight; I never see anything so lovely.

Jim whispered and said he was feeling powerful sick, and told me to come along.

Tom took him to a private place and opened the matter to him confidentially.

The morning after the funeral Tom took Huck to a private place to have an important talk.

I set it down, private, because somebody might want me to spell it next, and so I wanted to be handy with it and rattle it off like I was used to it.

I no longer belonged to myself, for I had my sister-in-law to protect and provide for.

Though he had acknowledged his guilt, he was protected by his grief.

The French government, without protecting them openly, as you know, gave countenance to volunteer assistance.

When she stopped she was quite proud of herself.

He looked at the plump little scarlet-waistcoated bird as if he were both proud and fond of him.

Now he said that there were just as many inhabitants as he had nails in his body; and he was very proud.

Then he asked his wife for more pudding, and as he ate, he threw the bones under the table.

And she took the little boy and cut him up, made him into puddings, and put him in the pot.

Now he has got his well-deserved punishment.

Villefort merited punishment for what he had done to you, and, perhaps, to others.

I have already successfully conducted several public prosecutions, and brought the offenders to merited punishment.

Franz protested he could not defer his pursuit till the following day, for many reasons.

Caderousse still evaded all pursuit, and I had resigned myself to what seemed my inevitable fate.

In fact, the pursuing vessel had almost overtaken them when, fortunately, night came on, and enabled them to double the Cape of Corsica, and so elude all further pursuit.

She fell asleep, and had as pleasant dreams as ever a queen on her wedding-day.

The king of a great land died, and left his queen to take care of their only child.

Now the queen once travelled through the land, and she had her little daughter with her.

His speech was so quick and easy.

The quick mist swept over her eyes.

and then walk away quick, eleven steps, with your eyes shut, and then turn around three times and walk home without speaking to anybody.

The young women had quilts around them, and their hair down their backs.

The table, chairs, and benches were thrown down, the washing-bowl lay broken to pieces, and the quilts and pillows were pulled off the bed.

Afterwards he was made to promise that he would not make the least attempt to raise the bandage.

The countess left with an indescribable pang in her heart, and before she had taken ten steps the count saw her raise her handkerchief to her eyes.

People said it was heartbreaking to hear her call her child, and raise her head and listen a whole minute at a time, then lay it wearily down again with a moan.

Buck said she could rattle off poetry like nothing.

I set it down, private, because somebody might want me to spell it next, and so I wanted to be handy with it and rattle it off like I was used to it.

He made me take off the rattles and tie them around his wrist, too.

In his arms he held the child, whom no skill had been able to recall to life.

Now, listen to me, and try to recall every circumstance attending your arrest.

I turned around, I looked at the trees, I tried to recall the details which had struck me at the time.

It seemed to him that the noon recess would never come.

At recess Tom continued his flirtation with Amy with jubilant self-satisfaction.

My eyes pierce the inmost recesses of the earth, and are dazzled at the sight of so much riches.