11th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

The night after that battle he was sentry at the door of a general who carried on a secret correspondence with the enemy.

The correspondence flourished famously, and letters flew to and fro with unfailing regularity all through the early spring.

She was driven away, never to revisit this neighbourhood: but a regular correspondence was established between her and my master when things were more settled.

Meantime the countryman began to look grave, and shook his head.

The next man he met was a countryman carrying a fine white goose.

Then the countryman stopped his fiddle, and left the miser to take his place at the gallows.

Yes; I received the news this evening by a courier.

The same courier who brought the dispatches to General Hood assured Scarlett of that.

Finally a courier came up from Jonesboro with the reassuring news that the Yankees had been beaten back.

It was paved and clean, but grass was growing in every crevice.

Peppino glided first into this crevice; after they got along a few paces the passage widened.

Through this crevice a small room was visible, whitewashed and clean but very bare of furniture.

No one has a right to criticize a husband to a wife.

And I will not permit anyone to criticize you in my hearing.

Darling, what you do, you always do for a good reason and I love you and trust you and it is not for me to criticize.

Starbuck was no crusader after perils; in him courage was not a sentiment; but a thing simply useful to him, and always at hand upon all mortally practical occasions.

The professor was carrying on a hot crusade against materialists.

Their one chance for life was in union, and so the struggle became a kind of crusade.

None of you has ever seen a dead donkey, and the others had to be content with this cryptic answer.

Two young men in brown robes like furniture-covers were gesturing vacuously and droning cryptic sentences full of repetitions.

Only old Benjamin refused to grow enthusiastic about the windmill, though, as usual, he would utter nothing beyond the cryptic remark that donkeys live a long time.

The night was fast closing in, when he returned homeward: laden with flowers which he had culled, with peculiar care, for the adornment of the sick chamber.

Mrs. Hatch swam in a haze of indeterminate enthusiasms, of aspirations culled from the stage, the newspapers, the fashion journals, and a gaudy world of sport still more completely beyond her companion's ken.

Those are the antecedents, and the culmination.

It was like bells rippling up and up to a culmination.

Though her eyes were closed, one could easily imagine the light necessarily shining in them as the culmination of the luminous workmanship around.

Even more culpable in my opinion, your Grace, is your attitude towards your younger son.

If you have been culpable, it was imprudence, and this imprudence was in obedience to the orders of your captain.

The results of what you have done become in time to you utterly insupportable; you take measures to obtain relief: unusual measures, but neither unlawful nor culpable.

I was partly urged by curiosity, and compassion confirmed my resolution.

This was a new sight to me, and I examined the structure with great curiosity.

I remained, while the storm lasted, watching its progress with curiosity and delight.

In this decadence, too, the art of fire-making had been forgotten on the earth.

Before me stretched the portentous menacing road of a new decade.

In normal cases one can place a man in his true decade with tolerable confidence.

Ever and anon a bright, but, alas, deceptive idea would dart you through.

Their anxious and eager looks were baffled by the deceptive light, or rested only on naked rocks, and straight and immovable trees.

That she could be in any danger from the deception never entered my head.

I am always willing to defer to your good sense.

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

She would not hear of staying a second longer: in truth, I felt rather disposed to defer the sequel of her narrative myself.

A feeling that the beloved walls had been defiled rose in her.

They seemed to realize the impossibility of touching tar without being defiled.

Miss Bart caught the startled glance of Mr. Percy Gryce, whose own lips were never defiled by tobacco.

Give me your definition of a horse.

Administering the definition like Tar-water.

However contracted, that definition is the result of expanded meditation.

Slackbridge, the delegate, had to address his audience too that night; and Slackbridge had obtained a clean bill from the printer, and had brought it in his pocket.

The delegate explained to him how it depended upon their being able to get every man to join and stand by the organization, and so Jurgis signified that he was willing to do his share.

It will readily be seen that in this case the alleged right of the Duke to the whale was a delegated one from the Sovereign.

The man whistled to the boy, and offered him part of a stick of candy, which he eagerly grabbed at, and very soon had it in a baby's general depository, to wit, his mouth.

To have imposed any derogatory work upon him, would have been to inflict a wanton insult on the feelings of a most respectable man.

It is well that you come here to whine over the desolation that you have made.

It was a needless question, for a new desolation in the desolate house had told me so.

Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.

The universal response was, that the fare was detestable, and that they wanted to be set free.

There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable.

I had much ado to defend myself against these detestable animals, and could not forbear starting when they came on my face.

What is to me a means of livelihood is to him the merest hobby of a dilettante.

"I thought I'd be a dilettante mother, but I'm as dismayingly natural as Mrs. Bogart," she boasted.

She was diligent at Red Cross work.

Raymie was diligent and rather strong.

She had a hen-like, crumb-pecking, diligent appearance.

Legree, cursing his ill luck, and vowing dire vengeance on the morrow, went to bed.

That direful mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness.

Miserable I am, and must be for a time; for the catastrophe which drove me from a house I had found a paradise was of a strange and direful nature.

It was as if the night sang dirges with clenched teeth.

He was writing now a new chapter on the causes of the present disastrous condition of agriculture in Russia.

The swirling body of blue men came to a sudden halt at close and disastrous range and roared a swift volley.

In that way, mostly, the disastrous encounter between Ahab and the whale had hitherto been popularly regarded.

As His disciple I adopt His pure, His merciful, His benignant doctrines.

I took their word for all that they averred, and I became their disciple.

Nor have Gall and his disciple Spurzheim failed to throw out some hints touching the phrenological characteristics of other beings than man.

But the fact that Sergey Ivanovitch and the princess seemed anxious to get rid of him did not in the least disconcert Stepan Arkadyevitch.

David, in some measure familiarized to the scene, led the way with a steadiness that no slight obstacle was likely to disconcert, into this very building.

And then came that disconcerting ride.

George drew himself up, and smiled disdainfully.

Miss Dartle turned her head disdainfully towards him.

When I met him on his rounds now, I thought he carried his head more disdainfully than ever, and strode up the steps of front porches and rang doorbells with more assurance.

I dare say it is something disparaging which you are going to say.

Why, as to that, my good friend, till I and my company have really acted there must be some guesswork; but I mean no disparagement to Julia.

I found a great many foxes, disparaging whole vineyards of inaccessible grapes; but I found very few foxes whom I would have trusted within reach of a bunch.

Magua still disdained to reply, continuing his efforts to disperse the crowd.

After which, Tamenund and Alice were removed, and the women and children were ordered to disperse.

The man who had addressed Haley, and who seemed not destitute of compassion, bought her for a trifle, and the spectators began to disperse.

Not that I mean to say these were special marks of distinction, which only I received.

It made me start as much as if it had been the knock of a footman to a person of distinction.

His son was bred in the service of his country, and Agatha had ranked with ladies of the highest distinction.

I have no wish to be distinguished; and have every reason to hope I never shall.

I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic.

Lucy was all exultation on being so honorably distinguished; and Miss Steele wanted only to be teazed about Dr. Davies to be perfectly happy.

Mrs. Trenor shook her head dolefully.

Rather a stately house of its kind, but dolefully in want of painting, and with dirty windows.

I had scarcely arrived at the total when a seventh was heard, as in the region of air, wailing dolefully.

He paused, eminent, dominant, glaring from his pedestal.

The tormenting humour which was dominant there stopped them both.

Nowhere is conscience so dominant and all-absorbing as with New England women.

Rather than argue the matter, Scarlett turned the parlor with its deep velvet rug into a dormitory.

The other girls in her dormitory marveled at the slightness of her body when they saw her in sheer negligee, or darting out wet from a shower-bath.

There were no college dormitories; we lived where we could and as we could.

She was very earnest to see the corpse.

His eloquence and religious fervour had already given the earnest of high eminence in his profession.

This lock of hair, which now he can so readily give up, was begged of me with the most earnest supplication.

A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy.

However, leaving that mystery to solve itself, or go unsolved for ever, he drove his task onward with earnest haste and ecstasy.

To see her lay the flowers against her little dimpled chin, was to lose all presence of mind and power of language in a feeble ecstasy.

I did so, and eking out the flicker with a scrap of paper from my pocket, I made good my retreat to the narrow tunnel.

Her iron-gray hair was eked out by a curled false fringe that was proudly brown and disdained to match the rest of her hair.

With the small competence he possessed, eked out by such employment as he could pick up, he travelled from town to town through the United States in quest of his enemies.

Gurth started up as if electrified.

She was first transfixed with surprise, and then electrified with delight.

CLOSE upon the hour of noon the whole village was suddenly electrified with the ghastly news.

I really think that we may eliminate him entirely from our calculations.

Therefore Simpson becomes eliminated from the case, and our attention centres upon Straker and his wife, the only two people who could have chosen curried mutton for supper that night.

Just as Ellen had done, other plantation mistresses throughout the South had put the pickaninnies through courses of training and elimination to select the best of them for the positions of greater responsibility.

She wanted to talk, but there seemed to be an embargo on every subject.

Yes; odds and ends, needlework, crotchet-work, embroidery, and that kind of thing.

You hold the embroidery thus in your left hand, and use the needle with the right--like this--with a long, easy sweep.

An association lurked in every fold: each fall of lace and gleam of embroidery was like a letter in the record of her past.

It is a very justifiable cause of a war, to invade a country after the people have been wasted by famine, destroyed by pestilence, or embroiled by factions among themselves.

When the song was ended, the anchorite emphatically declared it a good one, and well sung.

So very emphatically and unexpectedly, that we were all three discomposed; until Tiffey came in with the bill.

It became, emphatically, the bloody arena, in which most of the battles for the mastery of the colonies were contested.

Nevaire again must I be deegneefied and full of ennui.

It was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an appalling and hopeless ennui.

But as she sat there amid her guests, she felt the old ennui overtaking her; the hopelessness which so often assailed her, which came upon her like an obsession, like something extraneous, independent of volition.

It was a body capable of enormous leverage--a cruel body.

Eckleburg which had just emerged pale and enormous from the dissolving night.

They look out of no face but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose.

Mistress Mary felt solemnly enraptured.

But Scarlett hardly heard a word he said, so enraptured was she at being in the same room with Ashley again.

Bertuccio left enraptured, so great, so powerful, and real was the influence exercised by this man over all who surrounded him.

I shall enumerate them by their fore-castle appellations; for possibly such a list may be valuable to future investigators, who may complete what I have here but begun.

Roger Chillingworth possessed all, or most, of the attributes above enumerated.

I enumerated in my own mind all the various points upon which he had shown me that he was exceptionally well-informed.

The round eyes, eager gaze, the piping voice which enunciated the words, had operated like stilettos on his brain.

A calm, subdued triumph, blent with a longing earnestness, marked his enunciation of the last glorious verses of that chapter.

This unexpected resistance gave Magua time to interpose, and with rapid enunciation and animated gesture, he drew the attention of the band again to himself.

The swineherd, who was a most equitable man, then stood up to give every one his share.

We took their wives and also much booty, which we divided equitably amongst us, so that none might have reason to complain.

Oh, Frankenstein, be not equitable to every other and trample upon me alone, to whom thy justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due.

Then the railroad building era really began.

Like all that pertains to crime, it seemed never to have known a youthful era.

Even in this new era of motors the citizens went down to the station to see the trains go through.

I acquit Edward of essential misconduct.

This is essential for me, for you, and for our son.

Danger in the races of officers, of cavalry men, is an essential element in the race.

But I am very far from agreeing with you in your estimation of ladies in general.

Amy rose daily in the estimation of her friend, but he sank in hers, and each felt the truth before a word was spoken.

The high estimation then placed upon the military character might be seen in the lofty port of each individual member of the company.