12th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

and he had another illegitimate family of children also.

The divorced mother would have her own illegitimate family, in which his position as a stepson and his education would not be good.

Suitors of the illustrious queen, listen that I may speak even as I am minded.

No, he would be a soldier, and return after long years, all war-worn and illustrious.

We visited the tomb of the illustrious Hampden and the field on which that patriot fell.

Here are three instances, then, which I personally know the truth of; but I have heard of many other instances from persons whose veracity in the matter there is no good ground to impeach.

Knowing that he was going to be investigated and fearing impeachment, Bullock did not wait.

From the impeachment of Strafford to Farmer Lynch's short way with the scamps of Virginia there have been many triumphs of justice which are mockeries of law.

It became imperative to lance the flying whale, or be content to lose him.

Noirtier cast an appealing look on Valentine, which look was at once so earnest and imperative, that she answered immediately.

Her glance wandered from his face away toward the Gulf, whose sonorous murmur reached her like a loving but imperative entreaty.

The great barrier stood just in front of the imperial pavilion.

We traversed Greece, and arrived half dead at the imperial gates.

At landing, I showed the custom-house officers my letter from the king of Luggnagg to his imperial majesty.

I told him of all that had occurred to make my former interference in his affairs absurd and impertinent.

Cavalcanti was evidently embarrassed; he bowed to Morcerf, who replied with the most impertinent look possible.

No, that I am sure I shall not; and I think it is very impertinent of him to write to you at all, and very hypocritical.

And they were even going into debt to Tamoszius Kuszleika and letting him impoverish himself.

To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him to the most dreadful degree.

There came cruel, cold, and biting winds, and blizzards of snow, all testing relentlessly for failing muscles and impoverished blood.

The heights of Kennesaw were impregnable.

The lines around Kennesaw Mountain are impregnable.

Some weeks after, the Commodore set sail in this impregnable craft for Valparaiso.

There he was for one second; but surrounded, inaccessible.

A man like Danglars was wholly inaccessible to any gentler method of correction.

She knew that Mr. Gryce was of the small chary type most inaccessible to impulses and emotions.

Flying, rushing through the ambient, incandescent, summer silent.

The fire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses.

"Lights," commanded Master Freddie; and the butler pressed a button, and a flood of brilliant incandescence streamed from above, half-blinding Jurgis.

Forty teeth, namely twenty-four grinders, four eye-teeth, and twelve incisive.

That cold, incisive, ironical voice could belong to but one man in all the world.

It was he who at once, in an incisive and positive tone, opened the conversation.

So, having come there against my inclination, I went on against it.

But there are other points to be considered besides his inclination.

Without evincing any inclination to come in again, he there delivered his valedictory remarks.

No possible way for him to digest that jack-knife, and fully incorporate it into his general bodily system.

Covered as they were with dust and blood, the swift evolutions of the combatants seemed to incorporate their bodies into one.

Certainly, it needs a definition, and should be incorporated into the Lexicon.

So cleverly was the colonel concealed that, even when the Moriarty gang was broken up, we could not incriminate him.

Those persons are indemnified by me.

It had slipped my memory that you have good reasons to be indisposed for joining in my chatter.

After finishing her dinner she went to her room, having instructed the boy to tell any other callers that she was indisposed.

Mrs. Jenkinson was chiefly employed in watching how little Miss de Bourgh ate, pressing her to try some other dish, and fearing she was indisposed.

And nothing would induce him to come up.

I hoped to induce you to grant me a boat with which I could pursue my enemy.

I thanked her, without making any demonstration of joy, lest it should induce her to withdraw her assent.

Nobody supposes that you were his first inducement.

As to Franz, he had no longer any inducement to remain at Monte Cristo.

He acknowledged no such inducement, and his sister ought to have given him credit for better feelings than her own.

But something else in her was strange and inert and heavy.

Connie still suffered, having to lift his inert legs into place.

She was angry, with the complicated and confused anger that made her inert.

I had put them at a distance, and accepted my inevitable place.

Other great and inevitable expenses too we have had on first coming to Norland.

We had a hot supper on the occasion, graced by the inevitable roast fowl, and we had some flip to finish with.

I shuddered to hear the infatuated assertion.

The persistence of the infatuation lent it an aspect of genuineness.

That I retired to bed in a most maudlin state of mind, and got up in a crisis of feeble infatuation.

Hareton, you infernal calf, begone to your work.

I could not half tell what an infernal house we had.

He smiled; the infernal invention would serve him for this purpose.

At first I knew not what to make of this; but soon an inkling of the truth occurred to me.

Wildeve had not received an inkling of the fact before, and a sudden expression of pain overspread his face.

Dear mama, there, as soon as she got an inkling of the business, found out that it was of an immoral tendency.

Soft, seedy biscuits, also, I bestow upon Miss Shepherd; and oranges innumerable.

I make no allowance for innumerable feelings and circumstances that may have all tended to good.

I could mention innumerable instances which, although slight, marked the dispositions of these amiable cottagers.

Edgar Linton, after an inquisitive stare, collected sufficient wit to recognise her.

But in Clerval I saw the image of my former self; he was inquisitive and anxious to gain experience and instruction.

She had become inquisitive; and so she entered into conversation directly with the strange gentleman, on their promenades.

Assistance is impossible; condolence insufferable.

His insufferable smile was more complacent than ever.

She must be calm, and get out of this insufferable position.

It forms an integral part of the duties of an officer.

From being slender he had now become meagre; once pale, he was now yellow; his deep-set eyes were hollow, and the gold spectacles shielding his eyes seemed to be an integral portion of his face.

He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public business.

It was almost intolerable to be borne.

Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.

He would make my position in the Bank intolerable.

Especially she is generally intolerant of emotion, when she does not fully comprehend the why and wherefore.

It was not a brutal countenance, but it was prim, hard, and stern, with a firm-set, thin-lipped mouth, and a coldly intolerant eye.

It was almost intolerable to be borne.

I have a kind of intuition that way.

Her eyes sought the faces about her, craving a responsive glance, some sign of an intuition of her trouble.

In other words, Mr. Dimmesdale, whose sensibility of nerve often produced the effect of spiritual intuition, would become vaguely aware that something inimical to his peace had thrust itself into relation with him.

The red blood inundated her face, previously so pale.

The dragons were coming with invincible strides.

For Scylla is not mortal; moreover she is savage, extreme, rude, cruel and invincible.

My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic, and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances.

He knew well that I should never willingly invoke the aid of the police against him.

I mean to teach them in these parts that law is law, and that there is a man here who does not fear to invoke it.

Plaints made in common are almost prayers, and prayers where two or three are gathered together invoke the mercy of heaven.

I knew the steely ire I had whetted.

My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.

He endeavored, in a general way, to express a particular disapproval, and only succeeded in arousing the ire and opposition of his father-in-law.

Danglars felt the irony and compressed his lips.

This calmness of Busoni, combined with his irony and boldness, staggered Caderousse.

The prince went up to her, and Kitty detected that disconcerting gleam of irony in his eyes.

He replied in a jargon I did not comprehend.

I got through some jargon to the effect that I took the liberty of doubting that.

This they would sing, as a chorus, to words which to many would seem unmeaning jargon, but which, nevertheless, were full of meaning to themselves.

There are small lateral columns of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you.

Half an hour later Daisy herself telephoned and seemed relieved to find that I was coming.

I said lightly that I had heard nothing at all, and a few minutes later I got up to go home.

However, my speech produced nothing else beside a laud laughter, which all the respect due to his majesty from those about him could not make them contain.

I mentioned my reason for desiring to avoid observation in the village, and he lauded it to the skies.

She did not stay to retaliate, but re-entered in a minute, bearing a reaming silver pint, whose contents I lauded with becoming earnestness.

There was also a legacy of one thousand pounds.

The legacy, then, had been paid sooner than Gerty had led him to expect.

And it was from Cody that he inherited money--a legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars.

It has been dignified and liberal.

Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education.

She told me that her anguish had at last spurred Linton to incur the risk of liberating her.

In some instances, to the quick, observant eye, those linear marks, as in a veritable engraving, but afford the ground for far other delineations.

Mr. Melas is a Greek by extraction, as I understand, and he is a remarkable linguist.

They were carefully examined, and showed that he was a keen student of international politics, an indefatigable gossip, a remarkable linguist, and an untiring letter writer.

Indeed, it was almost mesmeric, the effect which this giggling ruffian had produced upon the unfortunate linguist, for he could not speak of him save with trembling hands and a blanched cheek.

It was simply fire in a liquid form.

I did so; he measured twelve drops of a crimson liquid, and presented it to Mason.

The count filled one glass, but in the other he only poured a few drops of the ruby-colored liquid.

It was gone before she could study it and the listless expression back again.

He told Ellen privately that it was a broken heart that made Scarlett so irritable and listless by turns.

Her pretty face was wan and listless; her hair uncurled: some locks hanging lankly down, and some carelessly twisted round her head.

Inasmuch as she did mean, it was hard to be extremely lucid.

One outlined in a peculiarly lucid manner all the plans of the commanding general.

She had never learned to live with her own thoughts, and to be confronted with them through such hours of lucid misery made the confused wretchedness of her previous vigil seem easily bearable.

For now, even Mammy, her mainstay, had gone back to Tara.

Mammy had always been Wade's mainstay and her frown made him tremble.

She was shining black, pure African, devoted to her last drop of blood to the O'Haras, Ellen's mainstay, the despair of her three daughters, the terror of the other house servants.

He was again in the grip of his mysterious malady.

This malady admits but of one remedy; I will tell you what that is.

There is that in thee, poor lad, which I feel too curing to my malady.

He was a pure manipulator; his brain, if he had ever had one, must have early oozed along into the muscles of his fingers.

As they went along, the man questioned the youth and assisted him with the replies like one manipulating the mind of a child.

She began moulding the wax; and it was evident from her manner of manipulation that she was endeavouring to give it some preconceived form.

Devonshire cottages and Essex manors and a Yorkshire High Street and Port Sunlight.

Front-de-Boeuf," replied John, "is a man more willing to swallow three manors such as Ivanhoe, than to disgorge one of them.

When you have killed all your own birds, Mr. Bingley," said her mother, "I beg you will come here, and shoot as many as you please on Mr. Bennet's manor.

The Afro-American mob did not materialize.

The House itself was to be sold as old building materials, and pulled down.

After many serious discussions with Meg and Jo, the pattern was chosen, the materials bought, and the slippers begun.

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

You should do just what your grandfather wishes, my dear boy, said Meg in her most maternal tone.

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

That I retired to bed in a most maudlin state of mind, and got up in a crisis of feeble infatuation.

Wildeve turned the light eagerly upon the spot where Venn had found the box, and mauled the herbage right and left.

After La Trobe had been excruciated by the Rector's interpretation, by the maulings and the manglings of the actors.

Drearily I wound my way downstairs: I knew what I had to do, and I did it mechanically.

The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics.

I was about mechanically to obey him, without further remonstrance; but as he helped me into the carriage, he looked at my face.

He was transfixed by this terrific medley of all noises.

The resulting medley of sound distracted no one, save possibly alone the babies, of which there were present a number equal to the total possessed by all the guests invited.

There was such a medley of things going on, what with the beldame's deafness, the bawling of the youths, and the confusion of the plot that she could make nothing of it.

Hunting was equally a devotion, full of metaphysical concepts veiled from Carol.

Her father liked the metaphysical streak which had unconsciously got into it, so that was allowed to remain though she had her doubts about it.

Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor.

Upon my word, I am not acquainted with the minutiae of her principles.

It was a worn whisper, dry and papery, and it brushed so distinctly across the ear that, by the accustomed, the material minutiae in which it originated could be realized as by touch.