11th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

Jo in maroon, with a stiff, gentlemanly linen collar, and a white chrysanthemum or two for her only ornament.

I took them out of the store room and folded them up myself, and I gave him also the gold brooch to wear as an ornament.

I had a single little pearl ornament which Miss Temple gave me as a parting keepsake: I put it on, and then we went downstairs.

Although they had been so quiet since the first outbreak of the matter, that most people really did suppose it to have been abandoned as hopeless, nothing new occurred.

This outbreak of weeping took Eustacia herself so much by surprise that she could not leave off, and she turned aside from him in some shame, though turning hid nothing from him.

The delicate little people must have heard me hammering in gusty outbreaks a mile away on either hand, but nothing came of it.

To this she would reply that unless he changed his mode of life, she would certainly outlive him.

I think he must have made an agreement with death to outlive all his heirs, and he appears likely to succeed.

Men pass through such superhuman loves and outlive them: they are the probation subduing the heart to human joys.

They were the outposts of the Snow Queen.

Sergey Ivanovitch laughed outright a merry laugh, which was rare with him.

he looked at Meg with such a lackadiasical expression that she laughed outright and spoiled his song.

Amy rebelled outright, and passionately declared that she had rather have the fever than go to Aunt March.

No doubt water ought not to be so wet as it is; it overdoes it in wetness.

We thought Hannah was overdoing the authority business, and your mother ought to know.

I should be afraid she might overdo, if I didn't know her 'moral fit' wouldn't last long.

Rose had by no means overrated the measure of the good doctor's wrath.

It was now Heyward's turn to bite his lip with vexation as the other so coolly alluded to a force which the young man knew to be overrated.

After this escape, I was content to take a foggy view of the Inn through the window's encrusting dirt, and to stand dolefully looking out, saying to myself that London was decidedly overrated.

It sent a correspondent to Colorado, and printed pages describing the overthrow of American institutions in that state.

So far as concerns the overthrow or preservation of his fair fame and his earthly state, and perchance his life, he is in my hands.

Feeling about for the obstacle which had flung him down, he discovered that two tufts of heath had been tied together across the path, forming a loop, which to a traveller was certain overthrow.

This is a pageant, all may see.

Sitting in the shell of the room she watched the pageant fade.

So that each of us who has enjoyed this pageant has still an opp.

Alexey Alexandrovitch had not had time to read the pamphlet through in the evening, and finished it in the morning.

With these words Mr. Brocklehurst put into my hand a thin pamphlet sewn in a cover, and having rung for his carriage, he departed.

He had published a pamphlet about it, and set out to organize a party of his own, when a stray Socialist leaflet had revealed to him that others had been ahead of him.

The pang is over, his sufferings are at an end for ever.

The feelings of yesterday pierced the sick heart with a fresh pang.

That pang was intensified by the strange feeling of physical pity for her set up by her tears.

On glancing at the address, the parochial functionary observed that it contained no name.

Thus saying, Mr. Bumble put on his cocked hat wrong side first, in a fever of parochial excitement; and flounced out of the shop.

So, she appropriated the greater part of the weekly stipend to her own use, and consigned the rising parochial generation to even a shorter allowance than was originally provided for them.

I will leave the paternal home, I will give up all.

One paternal kind precaution he had taken to ensure my having a companion.

But the Count of Monte Cristo surrounds me with every paternal care, and I am ignorant of nothing which passes in the world.

But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will patronize in vain--which taste cannot tolerate--which ridicule will seize.

For myself, I found that I was expressing my tendency to lavish expenditure, and to patronize Herbert, and to boast of my great prospects, before I quite knew that I had opened my lips.

I have found out who my patron is.

Legree, in a fury, swore she should be put to field service, if she would not be peaceable.

A pot of beer had appeared from the Jolly Bargemen, and they were sharing it by turns in a peaceable manner.

Induced by these feelings, I was of course led to admire peaceable lawgivers, Numa, Solon, and Lycurgus, in preference to Romulus and Theseus.

Levin still kept between the young peasant and the old man.

The gentleman does nothing, while the peasant works and supplants the idle man.

For both Levin and the young peasant behind him, such changes of position were difficult.

There was no peril of discovery.

It imparted to the wearer a kind of sacredness, which enabled her to walk securely amid all peril.

Yet the hours passed on without any unusual disturbance, and Dantes knew that he had escaped the first peril.

The reader will easily believe, that from what I had hear and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated.

It could not be that one conscious of such aptitudes for mastery and enjoyment was doomed to a perpetuity of failure; and her mistakes looked easily reparable in the light of her restored self-confidence.

Within myself, I had sustained, from my babyhood, a perpetual conflict with injustice.

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Mr. Kenneth was perplexed to pronounce of what disorder the master died.

Having swept the hearth and wiped the table, I departed; more perplexed than ever.

At last she recollected that she had been travelling, and they talked of Matlock and Dove Dale with great perseverance.

She was one of those people who can bear a great deal of pleasure, and she never flinched in her perseverance in the cause.

I was surly; but the thing would not go: it stood by me with strange perseverance, and looked and spoke with a sort of authority.

Meanwhile, Mr. Waldengarver, in a frightful perspiration, was trying to get himself out of his princely sables.

I sat shuddering yet, and wiping the perspiration from my forehead: the intruder appeared to hesitate, and muttered to himself.

Villefort fell back on his chair, passed his hand over his brow, moist with perspiration, and, for the third time, read the letter.

His pallor was so peculiar, that it seemed to pertain to one who had been long entombed, and who was incapable of resuming the healthy glow and hue of life.

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

As regarded the shipmaster, however, all was looked upon as pertaining to the character, as to a fish his glistening scales.

Everybody laughed at them, for Tamoszius was petite and frail, and Marija could have picked him up and carried him off under one arm.

The petition finished, Villefort read it aloud.

Even to petition the Tsar for legitimization, a divorce is essential.

It was only one phase of the multitudinous emotions which had assailed her.

It was on this phase of the proceedings that Miss Bart entered on the afternoon of her return from the Van Osburgh wedding.

Mrs. Micawber, tapping at the wall again to know if tea were ready, broke up this particular phase of our friendly conversation.

He was, as this remark shows, a man full of philanthropy, and in every way fit for his office.

Yet Yeobright was as firm in the contrary intention as if the tendency of marriage were rather to develop the fantasies of young philanthropy than to sweep them away.

Gerty Farish was not a close enough reader of character to disentangle the mixed threads of which Lily's philanthropy was woven.

I still think it is the most plausible one.

Miss Melly will believe any plausible scoundrel.

As always when he spoke, he sounded so plausible.

Marriage had never presented itself to him as a possibility.

Perhaps the latter possibility may be the nearer to the truth.

I was agonized with the idea of the possibility that the reverse of this might happen.

As for Monte Cristo, his head was bent down, his arms were powerless.

Seeing that he was powerless to begin the conversation, she began herself.

In this particular, his influence upon her was equally powerless with mine.

They were practically alone and he might never get another such opportunity.

And he wanted to prove this theoretically in his book and practically on his land.

Uncle Peter practically raised Melanie and me, for we were very young when Father and Mother died.

She unconsciously waited for the bellboy to precede her into the elevator.

He signed her to precede him; and casting back a look that cut my heart, she obeyed.

In this part of the field there passed slowly the intense moments that precede the tempest.

It was not, indeed, precisely that which he had laid out for himself to tread.

Our breakfast was as good as the supper, and at half-past eight precisely we started for Little Britain.

Hester Prynne did not now occupy precisely the same position in which we beheld her during the earlier periods of her ignominy.

High on the upper deck, in a little nook among the everywhere predominant cotton-bales, at last we may find him.

She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant and predominant, but because she thought that Lily disliked her.

Nothing could be more gracefully majestic than his step and manner, had they not been marked by a predominant air of haughtiness, easily acquired by the exercise of unresisted authority.

I need not say how rejoiced I shall be to hear there has been any mistake, but the report is so prevalent that I confess I cannot help trembling.

It was the prevalent conviction, and of all other explanations Levin had unconsciously, not knowing when or how, chosen it, as anyway the clearest, and made it his own.

The necessity of accepting this view of their past relation, and of meeting it in the key of pleasantry prevalent among her new friends, was deeply humiliating to Lily.

He coaxed in schoolmistress fashion, as to a congregation of boys with primers.

"Yes, if you are good, and love your book, as the boys in the primer are told to do," said Meg, smiling.

Then, there are the Prodromus whales of old Scotch Sibbald, and Jonah's whale, as depicted in the prints of old Bibles and the cuts of old primers.

We seem to want the oldest and simplest human clothing where the clothing of the earth is so primitive.

There were apples, yams, peanuts and milk on the table at Tara but never enough of even this primitive fare.

The floor was of smooth, white stone; the chairs, high-backed, primitive structures, painted green: one or two heavy black ones lurking in the shade.

He knows not what I term privation.

This, however, is not considered a very great privation.

It was January, midwinter, an awful time to have to face privation.

I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed.

He had also a wish to establish himself in the good graces of the lady; for John was at least as licentious in his pleasures as profligate in his ambition.

The rest of Prince John's retinue consisted of the favourite leaders of his mercenary troops, some marauding barons and profligate attendants upon the court, with several Knights Templars and Knights of St John.

It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.

There was a momentary silence, profound as what should follow the utterance of oracles.

My feelings are profound, but I possessed a coolness of judgment that fitted me for illustrious achievements.

Mr. jorkins is not a man to respond to a proposition of this peculiar nature.

The proposition pleased the two others, and they set out on their way together.

The procureur arose, delighted with the proposition, but his wife slightly changed color.

Our voyage was very prosperous, but I shall not trouble the reader with a journal of it.

What they had, each shared with less fortunate friends, as they had done in more prosperous days.

She could not consider her partiality for Edward in so prosperous a state as Marianne had believed it.

I will proclaim, I will prove your innocence.

I wanted to be cutting at those trees in the forest of difficulty, under circumstances that should prove my strength.

I avoided the Middletons as much as possible, as well as everybody else who was likely to prove an acquaintance in common.

His clothes were too heavy and provincial.

She concluded that it was because they were of secure reputation, not hemmed in by the fire of provincial jealousies.

While the train was stopping at the provincial town, Sergey Ivanovitch did not go to the refreshment room, but walked up and down the platform.

They were determining the exact psychology of Dave Dyer in standing pat, two hours before.

And since the field of life is largely an artificially-lighted stage today, the stories were curiously true to modern life, to the modern psychology, that is.

She had made a list of thirty European novels of the past ten years, with twenty important books on psychology, education, and economics which the library lacked.

We want no audience, no publicity.

Whereas Clifford discovered new channels of publicity, all kinds.

Clifford was a coming man; and it was remarkable what a sound publicity instinct he had.

She held a line of tatting in her hands and she was driving the shining needle back and forth as furiously as though handling a rapier in a duel.

On the ledge of rock above this strange couple there stood three solemn buzzards, who, at the sight of the new comers uttered raucous screams of disappointment and flapped sullenly away.

The weather was remarkably fine, and she readily consented.

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

When my mother removes into another house my services shall be readily given to accommodate her as far as I can.

Then Egdon was aroused to reciprocity; for the storm was its lover, and the wind its friend.

A secret voice seems to whisper to me that there must be something more than chance in this unexpected reciprocity of friendship.

She had passed beyond the phase of well-bred reciprocity, in which every demonstration must be scrupulously proportioned to the emotion it elicits, and generosity of feeling is the only ostentation condemned.

There is a huge error which it may take some little time to rectify.

Here is some great misapprehension which must be rectified.

The instant their mistake was rectified, the whole party retraced the error with the utmost diligence.

The words that comrades had uttered previous to the firing began to recur to him.

It may possibly recur to your memory that when I examined the paper upon which the printed words were fastened I made a close inspection for the water-mark.

I felt stunned by the awful event; and my memory unavoidably recurred to former times with a sort of oppressive sadness.

Indeed, the same dark question often rose into her mind with reference to the whole race of womanhood.

By degrees he fell to reposing such great confidence in me, as to ask my advice in reference to his own affairs.

I do not recall that I felt any tenderness of conscience in reference to Mrs. Joe, when the fear of being found out was lifted off me.

You hate me, but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself.

You, perhaps, regard her as your sister, without any wish that she might become your wife.

It was as Hester said, in regard to the unwonted jollity that brightened the faces of the people.