9th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

Since you are of opinion that she ought to have what she wants, I recommend you to provide it for her.

In my opinion, whoever hove those things in here caught a sight of us and took us for ghosts or devils or something.

On the question of whether she had been shot or had shot herself, he would not venture to express any decided opinion.

If you are unable to come I shall give you fuller details, and would esteem it a great kindness if you would favour me with your opinion.

My stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to be married in the course of the spring.

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuading arguments of my best friends.

I am simply applying to ordinary life a few of those precepts of observation and deduction which I advocated in that article.

Up to this point the incident bore the appearance of an ordinary accident, but fresh indications seem to point to serious crime.

Rose had been in high spirits, too, and they had walked on, in merry conversation, until they had far exceeded their ordinary bounds.

Fuller knowledge of the organization which produced such terrible results served to increase rather than to lessen the horror which it inspired in the minds of men.

And it was against this nocturnal organization that the newspapers of the North cried out most loudly, never realizing the tragic necessity that brought it into being.

My room was at the top of the house, at the back: a close chamber; stencilled all over with an ornament which my young imagination represented as a blue muffin; and very scantily furnished.

Jennings, but he is old enough to be MY father; and if he were ever animated enough to be in love, must have long outlived every sensation of the kind.

It was a sound which did not make her cheerful; she wondered that Edmund should forget her, and felt a pang.

I cannot leave him even now, without remembering with a pang, at once his modest fortitude and his great sorrow.

A pang went through her as she heard an agonized squealing which was suddenly stilled by a pistol shot and she knew that the sow was dead.

Gummidge, whose courtship would appear to have been of an exactly parallel nature, she was so continually reminded by these transactions of the old one.

Kitto was probably under the influence of a parallel fancy when he described his body as having become, by long endeavour, so sensitive to vibrations that he had gained the power of perceiving by it as by ears.

He was startled when they came upon him while he was engaged in this latter pastime, and his colour changed.

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

You could not find a more lonely tract of road anywhere, and it is quite rare to meet so much as a cart, or a peasant, until you reach the high road near Crooksbury Hill.

In a world where doing means marrying, and the commonwealth is one of hearts and hands, the same peril attends the condition.

I had received strict orders from my sister to call for him at the Three Jolly Bargemen, that evening, on my way from school, and bring him home at my peril.

To me, he signified the threatening danger was not so much death, as permanent alienation of intellect.

Holmes, save that I was so perplexed that I felt I should not be happy until I had seen you and had your advice.

Here we may take it that there is a love matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or grieved.

He never gave reasons for this persistent refusal, but contented himself by resolutely and inflexibly adhering to his determination.

He staggered back with a livid face, and I saw the perspiration break out upon his brow, while his teeth chattered in his head.

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

Bumble wiped from his forehead the perspiration which his walk had engendered, glanced complacently at the cocked hat, and smiled.

I am in high repute for my accomplishment in all pertaining to the art, and am joined with eleven others in reporting the debates in Parliament for a Morning Newspaper.

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

It was a phase of cheerfulness which was, as a matter of course, to be passed through every Christmas; and there was no more to be said.

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.

Here was a small rough hole in the mud wall, originally made for pigeons, through which the interior of the next shed could be viewed.

The blackbirds whistled it in the hedges, the pigeons cooed it in the elms, it got into the din of the smithies and the tune of the church bells.

The sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man.

A short walk brought us to a secluded road fringed with pleasant houses, each standing in its own grounds.

It would have been a pleasant job to go down by that on such a night, and have to walk home through a pond.

Out of the black shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of the metal pipes.

Having prepared his mind, by solitude and gloom, to prefer any society to the companionship of his own sad thoughts in such a dreary place, he was now slowly instilling into his soul the poison which he hoped would blacken it, and change its hue for ever.

I made shorthand notes of all that she said, however, so that there should be no possibility of a mistake.

So accustomed was I to his invariable success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to enter into my head.

You amused me by supposing that I was contemplating the possibility of someone having in broad daylight, under the eyes of all these opposite rooms, forced himself through it.

There was something ominous in the air, exactly what Ashley did not know, but he was powerless to save Scarlett from it.

With a last faint effort, which would have been powerless but for my yielding to it and assisting it, he raised my hand to his lips.

The young lady, making an effort to recover her cheerfulness, strove to play some livelier tune; but her fingers dropped powerless over the keys.

For some years he has practically withdrawn from the business, in which he is said to have massed considerable wealth.

They had been instructed theoretically in their religion, but never required to bring it into daily practice.

Those rules of deduction laid down in that article which aroused your scorn, are invaluable to me in practical work.

At the time of which I speak, Holmes had been back for some months, and I at his request had sold my practice and returned to share the old quarters in Baker Street.

She locked it after admitting me, as she had done before, and again preceded me into the dark passage where her candle stood.

The principals being all agreed in this respect, it soon appeared that a very few weeks would be sufficient for such arrangements as must precede the wedding.

Heathcliff: perhaps you have never remarked that their eyes are precisely similar, and they are those of Catherine Earnshaw.

Sikes disposed of a couple of glasses of spirits and water, and threw himself on the bed; ordering Nancy, with many imprecations in case of failure, to call him at five precisely.

In fact, precisely at this transitional point of its nightly roll into darkness the great and particular glory of the Egdon waste began, and nobody could be said to understand the heath who had not been there at such a time.

Darcy; or at least, by the predominance of virtue, atone for those casual errors under which she would endeavour to class.

With a strong prejudice against everything he might say, she began his account of what had happened at Netherfield.

Rushworth must and would improve in good society; and if Maria could now speak so securely of her happiness with him, speaking certainly without the prejudice, the blindness of love, she ought to be believed.

Well, every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for Eyford.

Proceeding into the Castle again, we found the Aged heating the poker, with expectant eyes, as a preliminary to the performance of this great nightly ceremony.

I spotted the bottle in which this preparation was kept, and when they were all gone, I helped myself to a little of it.

These details and accompanying delays worked up an atmosphere of preparation that was as impressive as it was fascinating.

The most prominent object was a long table with a tablecloth spread on it, as if a feast had been in preparation when the house and the clocks all stopped together.

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