9th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

She was conscious herself that her delight sparkled in her eyes and curved her lips into a smile, and she could not quench the expression of this delight.

The Grand Master was a man advanced in age, as was testified by his long grey beard, and the shaggy grey eyebrows overhanging eyes, of which, however, years had been unable to quench the fire.

As he stood there, trying to quench his fiery face with his drink of water, the comparison between the orator and the crowd of attentive faces turned towards him, was extremely to his disadvantage.

Lily met this query with an impatient gesture.

But Hester could not resolve the query, being herself in a dismal labyrinth of doubt.

She paused a moment before the last name, and shot a query through her lashes; but he remained imperturbable.

On the following evening I went into London in quest of him.

I wondered what he sought there: his words soon explained the quest.

Elizabeth walked in quest of the only face whose features would be known to her.

I comfort myself with that, said Amy with a little quiver in her voice.

A few steps brought them to the spring, and Tom felt a shudder quiver all through him.

The Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the water, and seemed to quiver all over with fright.

Excitement instantly seized the whole party: a running fire of raillery and jests was proceeding when Sam returned.

And with this raillery Andrea went out, leaving the two girls a prey to their own feelings of shame, and to the comments of the crowd.

Darya Alexandrovna saw that Anna disliked the tone of raillery that existed between her and Veslovsky, but fell in with it against her will.

It was the prospect of the Yankee soldiers on a rampage again that frightened her.

But unfortunately Demi's most unconquerable prejudice was against going to bed, and that night he decided to go on a rampage.

Strangers, modest enough elsewhere, started up at dinners in Coketown, and boasted, in quite a rampant way, of Bounderby.

Of course it was uphill work at first, and Jo made queer mistakes, but the wise Professor steered her safely into calmer waters, and the most rampant ragamuffin was conquered in the end.

It is a trifling ransom, Saxon, and thou wilt owe gratitude to the moderation which accepts of it in exchange of your persons.

Tell down thy ransom, I say, and rejoice that at such rate thou canst redeem thee from a dungeon, the secrets of which few have returned to tell.

Carlini flew joyfully to Rita, telling her she was saved, and bidding her write to her father, to inform him what had occurred, and that her ransom was fixed at three hundred piastres.

The corn ration was drastically reduced, and it was announced that an extra potato ration would be issued to make up for it.

Napoleon then led them back to the store-shed and served out a double ration of corn to everybody, with two biscuits for each dog.

She did not quite understand it herself; did not know that in the Bjornstams she found her friends, her club, her sympathy and her ration of blessed cynicism.

Ethan laid down the razor and straightened himself with a laugh.

Ethan, glaring at his face in the glass, threw his head back to draw the razor from ear to chin.

This weapon is always kept as sharp as possible; and when being used is occasionally honed, just like a razor.

Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming discontented face.

She saw their sashes untied, their hair pulled about their ears, their work-bags searched, and their knives and scissors stolen away, and felt no doubt of its being a reciprocal enjoyment.

The absolute solitude in which they lived intensified their reciprocal thoughts; yet some might have said that it had the disadvantage of consuming their mutual affections at a fearfully prodigal rate.

It was grandfather who brought about a reconciliation with the Shimerdas.

From his tone both Kitty and Anna knew that a reconciliation had taken place.

Her relations with Stepan Arkadyevitch after their reconciliation had become humiliating.

I recount to you a joke but eet eez a true story.

Alas, I have still to recount the most distressing period of my life.

As we walked to and fro, all four together, before breakfast, I deemed it right to recount what I had seen.

Yet it is terrible to reflect that the lives of all these men are endangered through me.

This passion is detrimental to me, for you do not reflect that YOU are the cause of its excess.

I paused some time to reflect on all he had related and the various arguments which he had employed.

Given at our palace at Belfaborac, the twelfth day of the ninety-first moon of our reign.

Then he left the country and went to Argos, where it was ordained that he should reign over much people.

My mother used to tell me of a millennium that was coming, when Christ should reign, and all men should be free and happy.

Both the militia and the Home Guards are going to be sent in to reinforce General Johnston.

At the sight there was a general reining up of horses and unslinging of guns, while fresh horsemen came galloping up to reinforce the vanguard.

Her dread of returning to a sleepless night was so great that she lingered on, hoping that excessive weariness would reinforce the waning power of the chloral.

Like all other joys, she rejected it as sin.

I tried to comfort her on this point, but she rejected consolation.

he could not conceive what would become of him if he were rejected.

When Elinor had ceased to rejoice in the dryness of the season, a very awful pause took place.

And the single-hearted and full expression of public opinion is the service of the press and a phenomenon to rejoice us at the same time.

You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.

The Sperm Whale blows as a clock ticks, with the same undeviating and reliable uniformity.

I have spoken with this policeman to-night and he appears to me to be a perfectly reliable person.

Miss Van Osburgh was a large girl with flat surfaces and no high lights: Jack Stepney had once said of her that she was as reliable as roast mutton.

A frightful selfishness hurried me on, while my heart was poisoned with remorse.

The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.

The blood flowed freely in my veins, but a weight of despair and remorse pressed on my heart which nothing could remove.

Miserable himself that he may render no other wretched, he ought to die.

You may render me the most miserable of men, but you shall never make me base in my own eyes.

This faith gives a solemnity to his reveries that render them to me almost as imposing and interesting as truth.

But the shock was insufficient to repel the impetus of the charge.

It may be very true, sir; but we are now obliged to repel art by art.

Your commandant is a brave man, and well qualified to repel my assault.

Her manners were attaching, and soon banished his reserve.

I think that he would have acknowledged anything, now, without reserve, but he wanted to talk about Daisy.

He received the kindest welcome from her; and shyness, coldness, reserve could not stand against such a reception.

With an effort I managed to restrain my incredulous laughter.

Oblonsky could not restrain a slight mocking smile at the sight of Levin.

Kitty saw that Varenka could hardly restrain a smile at the idea that she needed an escort.

In the new public law courts he disliked the restrictions laid on the lawyers conducting cases.

She paused before him with a smile which seemed at once designed to admit him to her familiarity, and to remind him of the restrictions it imposed.

For the last year and a half I have not had a hand in anything dishonourable, amid all that time I have been struggling in most restricted circumstances.

For them he has no use: I retain them.

I will retain my post of mistress till you get a substitute.

I want a wife: the sole helpmeet I can influence efficiently in life, and retain absolutely till death.

He bowed, and was meaning to retreat.

He sat down again, waiting for other visitors to arrive, in order to retreat unnoticed.

The sun rose; I heard the voices of men and knew that it was impossible to return to my retreat during that day.

He bent suddenly to retrieve his hat and she had one glimpse of his face.

Mellors pushed steadily behind, and up she went, as if to retrieve herself.

Every time she bent over to retrieve them, the hem of the dress fell in the mud.

In a minute or two, however, it began slowly to revolve, and then the men upon each side of it sprang to work.

They were like those double stars which revolve round and round each other, and from a distance appear to be one.

I thought to find one stubborn, at the least; but my one cogged circle fits into all their various wheels, and they revolve.

Miss Murdstone gave me her chilly finger-nails, and sat severely rigid.

The discipline of the family in those days was of a far more rigid kind than now.

Always proceeding from a rigid mouth and closed teeth, as if the jaw were locked and the face frozen up in pain.

As he went out into the rigorous night, I saw the lonely figure flit away before us.

Then I tried to preserve myself from the horror that was coming upon me, by regarding it as a rigorous punishment of human selfishness.

The speaker looked round upon the bystanders, now drawing closer to hear him, with his lips gathered tighter than ever in the rigorousness of his descriptive moderation.

It was during the more pleasant weather, that in due rotation with the other seamen my first mast-head came round.

The father of Safie had been the cause of their ruin.

Leave this wreck and ruin here where it hath happened.

Here was another ruin, the responsibility of which came partly home to her.

Here and there, frightened servants carried silver pitchers, knives and forks and a family portrait or two which had been salvaged in the first fight.

It's hard to salvage jettisoned cargo and, if it is retrieved, it's usually irreparably damaged.

The ones who come back last won't find a stick or stone or brick of their houses, because everybody's out salvaging things all over town to rebuild their houses.

The work was her one refuge, her sanctuary.

It was a jumble, but also it was a sort of little sanctuary.

Villefort, Franz, and a few near relatives alone entered the sanctuary.

I was at first inclined to associate it with the sanitary apparatus of these people.

As seen from Main Street, Oleson & McGuire's Meat Market had a sanitary and virtuous expression with its new tile counter, fresh sawdust on the floor, and a hanging veal cut in rosettes.

Others began to scamper away through the smoke.

They trampled slowly back over the field across which they had run in a mad scamper.

Bundles of candles were procured, and straightway there was a general scamper up the hill.

It had been her intention to send Pork out with the horse and wagon, the gold pieces and the United States money to scour the countryside for provisions and material for clothes.

Rewards had been offered, the country had been scoured, but no Injun Joe was found.

Charley and I scoured them, and they were on exhibition in the Harling office all summer.

Probably the lumber-yard isn't as scrumptious as all these Greek temples.

His whole existence was a scuffle.

I heard oaths and the confused sounds of a scuffle.

The youth and his friend had a small scuffle over the flag.

He was damned glad it was over--the scurry and the scuffle, the rouge and the rings.

Thus, many men of courage, he considered, would be obliged to desert the colors and scurry like chickens.

The chair gave a sort of scurry, reeled on a few more yards, and came to her end amid a particularly promising patch of bluebells.

His clothes were shabby, but he had an imposing shirt-collar on.

I was not afraid of the shabby coat, and had no yearnings after gallant greys.

I know that I worked, from morning until night, with common men and boys, a shabby child.

A sheath-knife, still in its sheath.

Every one looked at Carlini; the sheath at his belt was empty.

He had not time to get it from the sheath before I had the harpoon through him.

Mr. Micawber pressed my hand, and groaned, and afterwards shed tears.

Many were the tears shed by them in their last adieus to a place so much beloved.

I had unchained an enemy among them whose joy it was to shed their blood and to revel in their groans.

She did not taste the shreds of roast pork.

I am sure you did not, for a duster would have swept away these shreds of varnish.

On the table in the window were several shreds from a pencil which had been sharpened.

Dolly looked at him with her shrewd, comprehending eyes.

Ben Weatherstaff chuckled and there was shrewd admiration in his little old eyes.

There was a queer mixture of crabbed tenderness and shrewd understanding in his manner.

The shrivelled voice of the heath did not alarm him, for that was familiar.

He shrivelled up, Antonia said, until he looked like a little old yellow monkey, for his beard and his fringe of hair never changed colour.

Pretty soon a spider went crawling up my shoulder, and I flipped it off and it lit in the candle; and before I could budge it was all shriveled up.

My iron shroud contracted round me; persuasion advanced with slow sure step.

And from that pallor of the dead, we borrow the expressive hue of the shroud in which we wrap them.

I know not what dress she had on: it was white and straight; but whether gown, sheet, or shroud, I cannot tell.

Satan desires to have ye, and sift ye as wheat.

It was, of course, not a thing even to be talked of lightly; it was a thing they would have to sift to the bottom.

And she was sent into the kitchen, and made to fetch wood and water, to blow the fire, pluck the poultry, pick the herbs, sift the ashes, and do all the dirty work.

If ever child were stricken with sincere grief, I was.

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

I think I was the loudest of the party, but I am sure we were all sincere about it.

I could see nothing sinister about him.

The author clears himself from any sinister ends in writing.

He gave me a sidelong glance out of his sinister red eyes, and laughed.

His voice was soft but there was a vibrant note in it, and looking up into his dark face she saw in it none of the skepticism, the jeering humor she knew so well.

Suddenly I wasn't thinking of Daisy and Gatsby any more but of this clean, hard, limited person who dealt in universal skepticism and who leaned back jauntily just within the circle of my arm.

As if by agreement, the leaders began to slacken their speed.

It was already beginning to slacken, with a slack sort of thinness, almost withered, going old before it had ever really lived.

I hailed her, but could get no answer; yet I found I gained upon her, for the wind slackened.

Guided by a slight clue, I followed the windings of the Rhone, but vainly.

Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by such slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity or ruin.

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

It might have come from the center of the world, this smoke, where the fires of the ages still smolder.

He stirred the smoldering ashes till the broiled fowl began to sizzle afresh.

After the surrender, an ever-present feud over the horse smoldered between Scarlett and Suellen.

In the music room Gatsby turned on a solitary lamp beside the piano.

I alighted and was conducted to my solitary apartment to spend the evening as I pleased.

The scene was perfectly solitary; a few boats were returning towards land, but I sailed away from them.

Again Rosa Dartle tried to soothe her; again ineffectually.

He began to speak, trying to find words not to dissuade but simply to soothe her.

He endeavoured to soothe me as a nurse does a child and reverted to my tale as the effects of delirium.