10th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

He lay down, tucked his fore hoofs beneath him, shut his eyes, and with a hard effort managed to formulate his thoughts.

Meanwhile, councils went on in the kitchen at home, fraught with almost insupportable aggravation to my exasperated spirit.

They do live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous external things.

Though he said all this in his frivolous way, the way seemed, for that once, a conscious polishing of but an ugly surface.

She has been allowed to dispose of her time in the most idle and frivolous manner, and to adopt any opinions that came in her way.

Soon there were five buckets of frothing creamy milk at which many of the animals looked with considerable interest.

The green plaid taffeta, frothing with flounces and each flounce edged in green velvet ribbon, was most becoming, in fact her favorite dress, for it darkened her eyes to emerald.

You can trifle with your breakfast and seem to disdain your dinner if you are full to the brim with roasted eggs and potatoes and richly frothed new milk and oatcakes and buns and heather honey and clotted cream.

My friend rubbed his thin hands together with an appearance of avidity which was a surprise to me, who knew his frugal tastes.

Clifford fascinated her because he always, or so often, frustrated her will, as if by a finer instinct.

So his rather prominent pale eyes had a queer look, furtive, and yet a little cruel, so cold: and at the same time, almost impudent.

James Wilder, demure and courtly, but with some trace of that wild terror of the night before still lurking in his furtive eyes and in his twitching features.

As his signal had been rendered futile by this uproarious rapping Wildeve withdrew, passed out at the gate, and walked quickly down the path without thinking of anything except getting away unnoticed.

There was no gainsaying this difficulty, and we relinquished all thoughts of pursuing Orlick at that time.

It occurred to me several times that we should have got on better, if we had not been quite so genteel.

Four thousand a year is a pretty estate, and he seems a very genteel, steady young man, so I hope Miss Julia will be very happy.

He receives these wares not only from treacherous valets or maids, but frequently from genteel ruffians, who have gained the confidence and affection of trusting women.

A visit to the boy suggested itself as a means of gleaning new particulars; though it might be quite unproductive.

The terrible descriptions were so real and vivid, that the sallow pages seemed to turn red with gore; and the words upon them, to be sounded in his ears, as if they were whispered, in hollow murmurs, by the spirits of the dead.

She did not mean, however, to derive much more from it to gratify her vanity, than Mary might have allowed.

He knew that in her heart his aunt was on her knees to him, and he was morosely gratified by the consciousness of it.

And although my sister instantly boxed my ears, it was highly gratifying to me to see that the answer spoilt his joke, and brought him to a dead stop.

Those whom Nature had depicted as merely quaint became grotesque, the grotesque became preternatural; for all was in extremity.

Holmes bent over this grotesque frieze for some minutes, and then suddenly sprang to his feet with an exclamation of surprise and dismay.

It was altogether unaccountable that a young gentleman whose imagination had been strangled in his cradle, should be still inconvenienced by its ghost in the form of grovelling sensualities; but such a monster, beyond all doubt, was Tom.

With the exception of the guerrilla warfare carried on by Aunt Pitty against Uncle Henry, which had been a matter for hilarious laughter within the family for years, there had never been an open breach in the pleasant relations.

I told her that I believed she had given me a faithful account of herself, and that we had both been hapless instruments in designing hands.

It was all done so swiftly and deftly that the fellow was helpless before he knew that he was attacked.

But, Oliver felt it not, as it beat against him; for he still lay stretched, helpless and unconscious, on his bed of clay.

Some of them simply dreads those iron men, as they call them, those machines for hewing the coal, where men always did it before.

Then, she gave the knife a final smart wipe on the edge of the plaster, and then sawed a very thick round off the loaf: which she finally, before separating from the loaf, hewed into two halves, of which Joe got one, and I the other.

She looked, and saw a flickering firelight proceeding from the open side of a hovel a little way before them.

Really, if you looked closely at Clifford, he was a buffoon, and a buffoon is more humiliating than a bounder.

To own to the partial truth of what he had heard would be distressing as long as the humiliating position resulting from the event was unimproved.

Bumble opened the door, and walked in with a very fierce and angry manner: which was at once exchanged for a most humiliated and cowering air, as his eyes unexpectedly rested on the form of his lady wife.

Sparsit, with an affectation of humility the very opposite of his, and therefore in no danger of jostling it.

There was humility in her grief, no defiance in her attitude; and when this is the case a shaken spirit is apt to be stilled.

To call or to fancy it a loss, a disappointment, would be a presumption for which she had not words strong enough to satisfy her own humility.

It was bad enough that a Mrs Clay should be always before her; but that a deeper hypocrite should be added to their party, seemed the destruction of everything like peace and comfort.

It was very remarkable that a young gentleman who had been brought up under one continuous system of unnatural restraint, should be a hypocrite; but it was certainly the case with Tom.

This state of falsity had now brought on that crisis of falsity and dislocation, hysteria, which is a form of insanity.

Micawber, your humble servant, and I may add our children, have jointly and severally arrived, than by borrowing the language of an illustrious poet, to reply that our Boat is on the shore, and our Bark is on the sea.

Scarlett had found that a drink of neat brandy before supper helped immeasurably and she would always chew coffee or gargle cologne to disguise the smell.

I did not believe her to be indifferent because I wished it; I believed it on impartial conviction, as truly as I wished it in reason.

Imperative mood, present tense: Do not thou go home, let him not go home, let us not go home, do not ye or you go home, let not them go home.

The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.

The drops which lashed her face were not scorpions, but prosy rain; Egdon in the mass was no monster whatever, but impersonal open ground.

He has a very satirical eye, and if I do not begin by being impertinent myself, I shall soon grow afraid of him.

She saw with maternal complacency all the impertinent encroachments and mischievous tricks to which her cousins submitted.

Elinor had some difficulty here to refrain from observing, that she thought Fanny might have borne with composure, an acquisition of wealth to her brother, by which neither she nor her child could be possibly impoverished.

She was helpless before his calm smile and his drawling remarks, for she had never before met anyone who was so completely impregnable.