12th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

and sincere esteem, said Stepan Arkadyevitch, pressing his hand.

But if I go on, I shall displease you by saying what I think of persons you esteem.

This has been my motive, my fair cousin, and I flatter myself it will not sink me in your esteem.

Moreover, on her side, was his belief that her ethical motive in the argument was impregnable.

Much of this development he may have owed to his studious life in Paris, where he had become acquainted with ethical systems popular at the time.

Your ethics are considerably mixed up too.

He looked at me with a sort of condescending concern and compassion, as though he thought it a great pity that such a sensible young man should be so hopelessly lost to evangelical pagan piety.

He hopes to see all the evangelical denominations joined in one strong body, opposing Catholicism and Christian Science, and properly guiding all movements that make for morality and prohibition.

He had never before been convicted of a lie, and all the resources of evasion failed him.

Any one might have seen in her haggard face that there was no suppression or evasion so far.

This struck her as a clumsy evasion, and the thought gave a flash of keenness to her answer.

To a torn heart uncomforted by human nearness a room may open almost human arms, and the being to whom no four walls mean more than any others, is, at such hours, expatriate everywhere.

Sometimes I thought that the fiend followed me and might expedite my remissness by murdering my companion.

In his eagerness to expedite the pursuit, Uncas had left himself nearly alone; but the moment his eye caught the figure of Le Subtil, every other consideration was forgotten.

Since such were her feelings, it only remained, he thought, to secure and expedite a marriage, which, in his very first conversation with Wickham, he easily learnt had never been his design.

He was a long way down the sunny street, and was making expressive gestures for me to stop.

As he said this his countenance became expressive of a calm, settled grief that touched me to the heart.

But evidently he was not addressing me for he dropped my hand and covered Gatsby with his expressive nose.

He waited for me to declare that I quite understood that he expressly said that he admitted nothing.

He was so polite as to stop at a public-house, expressly on our account, and entertain us with broiled mutton and beer.

He knocked the ashes out of his pipe, and put it on a ledge in the back of his chair, expressly made for its reception.

On the contrary, I can never recollect having seen him in such exuberant spirits.

So far as I could see, all the world displayed the same exuberant richness as the Thames valley.

Now for the Trenors, you remember, he chose the Corinthian: exuberant, but based on the best precedent.

However, he took affairs as coolly as it was in human nature to do, and entertained himself with the facetious idea of the training more than once.

But, making Oliver cry, Noah attempted to be more facetious still; and in his attempt, did what many sometimes do to this day, when they want to be funny.

With the passionate song of the bullets and the banshee shrieks of shells were mingled loud catcalls and bits of facetious advice concerning places of safety.

This is a farcical waste of time, but still, if nothing else will satisfy you, it shall be done.

He had risen and, despite the farcicality of Dr. Will Kennicott's bulgy trousers draped over his arm, he had the grace of a cat.

Of course there is only one feasible explanation.

Yeobright did not wish to go there, but it was the only feasible opening.

They were ready to hear, and ready to act when a feasible plan should be proposed.

However hard she tried, she could not love this little child, and to feign love was beyond her powers.

He particularly remembered an old fellow who used to sit upon a cracker box in front of the store and feign to despise such exhibitions.

Next day I had the meanness to feign that I was under a binding promise to go down to Joe; but I was capable of almost any meanness towards Joe or his name.

Although Sinbad pronounced these words with much calmness, his eyes gave forth gleams of extraordinary ferocity.

He delighted to witness Hindley degrading himself past redemption; and became daily more notable for savage sullenness and ferocity.

There was a carefully restrained ferocity in his dark face, a ruthlessness which would have frightened her had she the wits to see it.

For many years past the whale-ship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and least known parts of the earth.

Its deep fidelity and goodness were not to be adorned by me or any man.

His homely figure seemed to be lightened up by his fidelity and generosity.

Then I should have asked you to accept my pledge of fidelity and to give me yours.

Oh, yes, they will; only listen to that charming finale.

He might dissect, anatomize, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him.

I hardly know whether I shall have the power to detail it; yet the tale which I have recorded would be incomplete without this final and wonderful catastrophe.

Only of course none of them have your finesse, you might call it.

Having conceived the idea he proceeded to carry it out with considerable finesse.

However, I have no doubt that with a little delicacy and finesse the end may be attained.

Faster, faster, faster, it whizzed, whirred, buzzed, till all the flails became one flail and up soared the plane away and away.

I observed, here and there, many in the habit of servants, with a blown bladder, fastened like a flail to the end of a stick, which they carried in their hands.

To escape his terrible flailings, I seized hold of my harpoon-pole sticking in him, and for a moment clung to that like a sucking fish.

He just used that as an excuse to come and flaunt himself and Emmie in her face.

Yes, Mrs Flint had flaunted her motherhood.

She stood back and viewed him with pride, thinking that even Jeb Stuart with his flaunting sash and plume could not look so dashing as her cavalier.

But this is a harmless little foible in the English whale-hunters, which the Nantucketer does not take much to heart; probably, because he knows that he has a few foibles himself.

Now that was tact, for two of the ruling foibles of the masculine mind were touched.

For, these are matters totally beneath a female who is acknowledged by universal admission to be far above the numerous little foibles and weaknesses of her sex.

By good rights he should only be treated of in imperial folio.

Of the grand order of folio leviathans, the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale are by far the most noteworthy.

These civil commotions were constantly fomented by the monarchs of Blefuscu; and when they were quelled, the exiles always fled for refuge to that empire.

The maid had entered with us, and began once more to foment the bruise upon her mistress's brow.

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

It seemed to him that he had an answer to this question; but he had not time to formulate it to himself before he went into the nursery.

Her formulations were not pat solutions but visions of a tragic futility.

She found that he would give her anything she desired, answer any question she asked as long as she was forthright, and refuse her anything she attempted to gain by indirection, hints and feminine angling.

That was fortunate, for if she could have spoken she would have cried out truths couched in Gerald's forthright words.

Suddenly she found her tongue and just as suddenly all the years of Ellen's teachings fell away, and the forthright Irish blood of Gerald spoke from his daughter's lips.

She laughed and was frivolous and rather brittle.

He saw that there was a great deal in it that was frivolous and absurd.

You no more deceive me with that false calmness than I impose upon you with my frivolous solicitude.

Nothing but the froth of the waves could be discerned in the pool below.

But there was a breeze blowing, a choppy, stiff wind that whipped the water into froth.

The chair puffed slowly on, slowly surging into the forget-me-nots that rose up in the drive like milk froth, beyond the hazel shadows.

I was shown by this woman into a sitting-room, where a frugal supper was laid out.

Such was I in battle, but I did not care about farm work, nor the frugal home life of those who would bring up children.

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

The idea is one that no circumstances can frustrate.

The men curled into depressions and fitted themselves snugly behind whatever would frustrate a bullet.

If there were frustration, a red one.

There was a furtive uneasiness about him.

Presently the boy began to steal furtive glances at the girl.

He looked at her with a furtive apprehension in his rather prominent pale eyes.

But no man ventured directly to gainsay a pledge filled to the health of the reigning monarch.

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

They all held their peace till at last Agelaus son of Damastor said, "No one should take offence at what has just been said, nor gainsay it, for it is quite reasonable."

I assure you they are very genteel people.

It was a genteel old-fashioned house, very quiet and orderly.

We were so exceedingly genteel, that our scope was very limited.

Be that as it may, it did comprehend it; for in our souls there germinate far greater powers than we poor mortals, despite all our cleverness, have any notion of.

The crabs hung on the branches as thick as beads on a string, purple-red, with a thin silvery glaze over them.

She asked again about the fields, the gardens, the stock, and her green eyes had a hard bright glaze which Pork had never seen in them before.

Her intentions in short had never been more definite; but poor Lily, for all the hard glaze of her exterior, was inwardly as malleable as wax.

She had in truth never seen him so shaken out of his usual glibness; and there was something almost moving to her in his inarticulate struggle with his emotions.

I got separated"--began the youth with considerable glibness.

Now there came a certain common tramp who used to go begging all over the city of Ithaca, and was notorious as an incorrigible glutton and drunkard.

Red Admirals gluttonously absorbed richness from dish cloths, cabbage whites drank icy coolness from silver paper.

Cora, already regretting her precipitation, was obliged to comply, for Magua instantly left the spot, and approached his gluttonous comrades.

And what he saw in this mirror did not gratify his self-esteem.

Lily was quite ready to gratify this curiosity, but it happened that she was dining out.

The court, in the inside, had evidently been arranged to gratify a picturesque and voluptuous ideality.

He marched from the room, a grotesque figure in baggy union-pajamas.

The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night.

The contrast was too grotesque: she could scarcely suppress the smile it provoked.

An instant later he leaped at her, as she lay groveling at his feet.

It was a grovelling fashion of existence: I should never like to return to it.

He groveled on the ground and then springing up went careering off through some bushes.

I have seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell.

Before commencing, it is but fair to warn you that the story will sound somewhat hackneyed in your ears; but stale details often regain a degree of freshness when they pass through new lips.

His principal object must be to discover the number of the hackney coach which took them from Clapham.

Dantes from his rocky perch saw the shattered vessel, and among the fragments the floating forms of the hapless sailors.

I heard of the discovery of the American hemisphere and wept with Safie over the hapless fate of its original inhabitants.

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.

Then Caesar and the pope hastened to lay hands on the heritage, under presence of seeking for the papers of the dead man.

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

I suspect a hoax is intended, but the instigators of it little knew whom they had to deal with.

I stood for a few minutes with my heart in my boots, wondering whether the whole thing was an elaborate hoax or not, when up came a man and addressed me.

My mode of life in my hovel was uniform.

I eagerly seized the prize and returned with it to my hovel.

I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter and stupid despair.

Before that time, she knew, a hundred generations of Carols will aspire and go down in tragedy devoid of palls and solemn chanting, the humdrum inevitable tragedy of struggle against inertia.

Looking at him, she had a physical sense of her humiliation, and she could say nothing more.

That was what I did indeed when she herself made known to me my humiliation; I left everything as of old.

The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received.

Her husband, but with great humility, did not see the force of her objection.

I found Uriah Heep among the company, in a suit of black, and in deep humility.

So nothing came of these trials, and Jo corked up her inkstand, and said in a fit of very wholesome humility.

I always knew she hated me and she was too much of a hypocrite to admit it.

He is such an incarnate hypocrite, that whatever object he pursues, he must pursue crookedly.

She cried bitterly over this reflection when her uncle was gone; and her cousins, on seeing her with red eyes, set her down as a hypocrite.

There was no panic now, no hysteria.

She knew what she was up against: male hysteria.

She came out of her hysteria like a sparrow shaking off rain-drops.

And I," replied the visitor, changing his idiom, "know enough of English to keep up the conversation.