9th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

We had all risen to our feet, our prisoner breathing hard, with a stalwart constable on each side of him.

Wildeve breathed the breath of one intolerably bored, and glanced through the partition at the prisoners.

Still, in the same moment, I saw the prisoner start up, lean across his captor, and pull the cloak from the neck of the shrinking sitter in the galley.

Hubble, who were surpassingly conceited and vainglorious in being members of so distinguished a procession.

Boxer and Clover pulled the wagon which served as a hearse, and Napoleon himself walked at the head of the procession.

WE slept most all day, and started out at night, a little ways behind a monstrous long raft that was as long going by as a procession.

Clifford looked at Connie, with his pale, slightly prominent blue eyes, in which a certain vagueness was coming.

Abraham in red going to sacrifice Isaac in blue, and Daniel in yellow cast into a den of green lions, were the most prominent of these.

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.

It seems to me, at this distance of time, as if it were the next day when Peggotty broached the striking and adventurous proposition I am about to mention; but it was probably about two months afterwards.

Her next proposition, of shewing the house to such of them as had not been there before, was more acceptable, for Miss Bertram was pleased to have its size displayed, and all were glad to be doing something.

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

Among those who are at all his equals in consequence, he is a very different man from what he is to the less prosperous.

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

If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.

The birds at first objected, since it seemed to them that they also had two legs, but Snowball proved to them that this was not so.

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.

A regard for the requester would often make one readily yield to a request, without waiting for arguments to reason one into it.

I shall now add a little milk to make the mixture palatable, and on presenting it to the dog we find that he laps it up readily enough.

You knew that this man Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him.

Now, Yeobright, having inherited some of these very instincts from the woman before him, could not fail to awaken a reciprocity in her through her feelings, if not by arguments, disguise it as she might for his good.

A reference to the passenger list showed that Miss Fraser, of Adelaide, with her maid had made the voyage in her.

Wopsle referred to me, he considered it a necessary part of such reference to rumple my hair and poke it into my eyes.

I have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in connection with my wedding.

Copperfield, to do the same; to regard it as an investment which is sure of return, and to make up his mind to any sacrifice.

He had thought he loved her to distraction; he had regarded his passion as adoration; and behold it was only a poor little evanescent partiality.

Bounderby and myself might have deemed it years ago, that he would ever become my patron, making me an annual compliment, I cannot but regard him in that light.

Maria, she also thought, acted well, too well; and after the first rehearsal or two, Fanny began to be their only audience; and sometimes as prompter, sometimes as spectator, was often very useful.

The ownership of property has now become a religious question: as it has been since Jesus and St Francis.

No matter what the subject might be, a brainracking effort was made to squirm it into some aspect or other that the moral and religious mind could contemplate with edification.

Her two absent cousins, especially Maria, were much in her thoughts on seeing him; but no embarrassing remembrance affected his spirits.

She had had a disappointment, moreover, which that book, and especially the history of her own family, must ever present the remembrance of.

I can make no claim therefore to have known, at that time, how matters stood; or to have any remembrance, founded on the evidence of my own senses, of what follows.

Trabb measured and calculated me in the parlor, as if I were an estate and he the finest species of surveyor, and gave himself such a world of trouble that I felt that no suit of clothes could possibly remunerate him for his pains.

When he was sober he used to be fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would make me his representative both with the servants and with the tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite master of the house.

Only when I pressed the cold muzzle of the revolver to his temple did he at last understand that resistance was vain.

His face and hands were terribly mangled by his passage through the glass, but loss of blood had no effect in diminishing his resistance.

Left alone with her mother, Louisa saw her lying with an awful lull upon her face, like one who was floating away upon some great water, all resistance over, content to be carried down the stream.

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

Resolutely she took it by the hem and jerked, put it in her mouth and gnawed, until finally the material gave with a rip and tore the length.

The basin was refilled, and this time he stood over it a little while, gathering resolution; took in a big breath and began.

I had a catching of the breath, and my skin went cold at the words, which were slowly uttered in a tone of concentrated resolution.

Elizabeth would wonder, and probably would blame her; and though her resolution was not to be shaken, her feelings must be hurt by such a disapprobation.

I felt no inclination to tarry the event; and, resolving to seek medical aid on my own responsibility, I quitted the chamber.

I have no doubt she has connived at your desertion of your duties and responsibilities, so do not expect me to show pleasure in seeing her.

The Duke is greatly agitated, and, as to me, you have seen yourselves the state of nervous prostration to which the suspense and the responsibility have reduced me.

When she had been with Rhett in New Orleans and Charleston she had been permitted to sit up as late as she pleased and had gone to sleep in his arms in theaters, restaurants and at card tables.

The human beings could not contain their rage when they heard this song, though they pretended to think it merely ridiculous.

She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in anything ridiculous.

In fact everything was a little ridiculous, or very ridiculous: certainly everything connected with authority, whether it were in the army or the government or the universities, was ridiculous to a degree.

I used to draw a comparison between him and Hindley Earnshaw, and perplex myself to explain satisfactorily why their conduct was so opposite in similar circumstances.

I intimated that my aunt would be proud and delighted to make their acquaintance; though I must say I was not quite sure of their getting on very satisfactorily together.

And with every day that passed, she became more sure in her own mind of his devotion, more certain he would arrange matters satisfactorily when the Yankees were finally beaten.

My business was to declare myself a scoundrel, and whether I did it with a bow or a bluster was of little importance.

She thought that some of them had been laying violent hands on me; and, not daring to attack her master, she turned her vocal artillery against the younger scoundrel.

At the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street.

One of our most lucrative means of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security is unimpeachable.

Betsey funded her property for some time, and then, by the advice of her man of business, laid it out on landed security.

For the first time, since their renewed acquaintance, she felt that she was betraying the least sensibility of the two.

They read, they talked, they sang together; his musical talents were considerable; and he read with all the sensibility and spirit which Edward had unfortunately wanted.

She lays close to the Endymion, between her and the Cleopatra, just to the eastward of the sheer hulk.

In a school carried on by sheer cruelty, whether it is presided over by a dunce or not, there is not likely to be much learnt.

In your picturesque account of the matter, which I read with great interest some months later, you assert that the wall was sheer.

There was another pause, and then the judge arrived and the sheriff proclaimed the opening of the court.

Brownlow and Oliver appeared at the wicket, and presented an order of admission to the prisoner, signed by one of the sheriffs.

Her eye was arrested by what was a familiar sight enough, though it broke upon her now with a new significance.

His celebrated passages are quoted by everybody; they are in half the books we open, and we all talk Shakespeare, use his similes, and describe with his descriptions; but this is totally distinct from giving his sense as you gave it.

It made her melancholy again; and the knowledge of what must be enduring there, invested even the house, modern, airy, and well situated as it was, with a melancholy aspect.

It is, as he said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all stained and streaked with damp and bad weather.

How to discover a solution to this riddle of death seemed a query of more importance than highest problems of the living.

And I even attempted, more than once, for my own private satisfaction, to employ his methods in their solution, though with indifferent success.

It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers.

There was a sound upon the stairs, and our door was opened to admit as fine a specimen of manhood as ever passed through it.

It was so dark that I could not see the means of exit; and, as I wandered round, I heard another specimen of their civil behaviour amongst each other.

So the bud blossomed into a flower, and the year which saw her father the richest of the farmers left her as fair a specimen of American girlhood as could be found in the whole Pacific slope.

Believe me, whatever God there is is slowly eliminating the guts and alimentary system from the human being, to evolve a higher, more spiritual being.

The dismal spiritual atmosphere overcame, and more than neutralised, the glowing physical comforts round me; and I resolved to be cautious how I ventured under those rafters a third time.