6th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

daughter when I could boast as high a name and vast a.

It gave her all the animation that her spirits could boast; for she was in no cheerful humour.

Neither have I forgotten how apt some travellers are to boast of extraordinary favours they have received.

The benches was made out of outside slabs of logs, with holes bored in the round side to drive sticks into for legs.

Meanwhile Calypso came back with some augers, so he bored holes with them and fitted the timbers together with bolts and rivets.

She is a frightful bore, that woman.

I feared my brain was disturbed by my sufferings and misfortunes.

His brain is first-rate, I should think not impressible, but vigorous.

It was too irksome to lie there, harassing my brain with a hundred idle misgivings.

I wish I was a horse, then I could run for miles in this splendid air, and not lose my breath.

At the top of these steps he came plump upon a sight that took his breath away and chilled his blood.

A breath of fresh air seemed to blow through the house, and something better than sunshine brightened the quiet rooms.

She was so happy that she scarcely dared to breathe.

I swear to you by him who died for us that naught shall induce me to breathe one syllable to my jailers; but I conjure you do not abandon me.

They laced her into a sky-blue dress, which was so tight she could hardly breathe and so low in the neck that modest Meg blushed at herself in the mirror.

The breeze is still: it is quite hot.

The dew fell, but with propitious softness; no breeze whispered.

A little ripply, cool breeze begun to blow, and that was as good as saying the night was about done.

The ladies, since the gentlemen entered, have become lively as larks; conversation waxes brisk and merry.

She had never seen a child who sat so still without doing anything; and at last she got tired of watching her and began to talk in a brisk, hard voice.

If you have been good, he looks satisfied and walks briskly.

Jo nodded and laughed, and flourished her broom as she called out.

With that, Jo shouldered her broom and marched into the house, wondering what they would all say to her.

She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with.

We found a brass button in his stomach and a round ball, and lots of rubbage.

John should find home a paradise, he should always see a smiling face, should fare sumptuously every day, and never know the loss of a button.

Among the many pillows that adorned the venerable couch was one, hard, round, covered with prickly horsehair, and furnished with a knobby button at each end.

Made a peer at the Restoration, I served through the first campaign under the orders of Marshal Bourmont.

Then they got tired of it, and allowed they would "lay out a campaign," as they called it.

Then taking up his account book, he cancelled with the greatest care all the entries of the amounts he had just paid away.

Great, therefore, was the astonishment when at the end of the month, he cancelled all his obligations with his usual punctuality.

Of course she did, and had a capital time.

She is a capital nurse, and you may trust the precious babies to her while you do more housework.

Laurie came every day, and wheedled Aunt March till Amy was allowed to go out with him, when they walked and rode and had capital times.

Yes, it was settled; his career was determined.

Through my means, He opens to you a noble career; as my wife only can you enter upon it.

Yes, yes; this is an adventure worthy a place in the varied career of that royal bandit.

When I advanced to the middle of the channel, they were yet more in pain, because I was under water to my neck.

They turned around the foot of the island and started up the channel on the Missouri side, under steam, and booming once in a while as they went.

The empire of Blefuscu is an island situated to the north-east of Lilliput, from which it is parted only by a channel of eight hundred yards wide.

Holding a hand of each, and watching the two young faces wistfully, Mrs. March said, in her serious yet cheery way.

But in spite of their efforts to be as cheery as larks, the flutelike voices did not seem to chord as well as usual, and all felt out of tune.

So Jo was satisfied with the investment of her prize money, and fell to work with a cheery spirit, bent on earning more of those delightful checks.

Mrs. March folded the wavy chestnut lock, and laid it away with a short gray one in her desk.

He came in gorgeous array, with plumed cap, red cloak, chestnut lovelocks, a guitar, and the boots, of course.

You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernal, if one can only get at it.

By no other circumstance had I will to decide my choice.

Take your choice, but you must be satisfied with only one.

But if he returns no more this winter, my choice will never be required.

With his instinctive delicacy Edmond had preferred avoiding any touch on this painful chord, and Faria had been equally silent.

But in spite of their efforts to be as cheery as larks, the flutelike voices did not seem to chord as well as usual, and all felt out of tune.

It plained of its gaping wounds, its inward bleeding, its riven chords.

We read some, and mean to every day, they all cried in chorus.

"Nor I, nor I," chorused the sailors.

He consents without a murmur, all join in a joyful chorus, and the curtain falls upon the lovers kneeling to receive Don Pedro's blessing in attitudes of the most romantic grace.

The facchino follows the prince, the Transteverin the citizen, every one blowing, extinguishing, relighting.

A trifle after noon the boys borrowed a small skiff from a citizen who was absent, and got under way at once.

Early in the forenoon parties of jaded men began to straggle into the village, but the strongest of the citizens continued searching.

In pompous nothings on his side, and civil assents on that of his cousins, their time passed till they entered Meryton.

Perhaps he had been civil only because he felt himself at ease; yet there had been that in his voice which was not like ease.

The housekeeper came; a respectable-looking elderly woman, much less fine, and more civil, than she had any notion of finding her.

Mr. Bingley was unaffectedly civil in his answer, and forced his younger sister to be civil also, and say what the occasion required.

A vagrant current or a slight rise in the river had carried off their raft, but this only gratified them, since its going was something like burning the bridge between them and civilization.

Brunehilde and Fredegonde were the results of the painful struggle of civilization in its infancy, when man was learning to control mind, were it even by an emissary from the realms of darkness.

My lord, you scornfully bade me claim your.

You give me a larger allowance of sympathy than I have a just claim to.

Not a tie links me to any living thing: not a claim do I possess to admittance under any roof in England.

We was wove out of th same cloth.

One of them spread a fair purple cloth over a seat, and laid a carpet underneath it.

She slipped her fork to the floor, and hastily dived under the cloth to conceal her emotion.

Huck scanned his own clothing forlornly.

Moreover she gave me good stout clothing, and sent me a wind that blew both warm and fair.

Then they tore off her dainty clothing, laid her on a table, and cut her beautiful body into pieces, and sprinkled salt upon it.

The girls flew about, trying to make things comfortable, each in her own way.

My rooms are always open to you, and your own shall be as comfortable as I can make it.

He was perfectly open and honorable about Meg, for he told us he loved her, but would earn a comfortable home before he asked her to marry him.

Then Alcinous told Laodamas and Halius to dance alone, for there was no one to compete with them.

Three sons of Alcinous, Laodamas, Halios, and Clytoneus, competed also.

The instruments of transfer were drawn out: St. John, Diana, Mary, and I, each became possessed of a competency.

Jane was beyond competition her favourite child.

He was her dear Wickham on every occasion; no one was to be put in competition with him.

I am confident that she would have performed delightfully.

But Dantes was far from being as enthusiastic and confident as the old man.

de Blacas pondered deeply between the confident monarch and the truthful minister.

Lydia came to us; and Wickham had constant admission to the house.

The light was yet there, shining dim but constant through the rain.

I often tell young ladies that no excellence in music is to be acquired without constant practice.

Among worldly people manner is contagious.

But, suitors, as the contest has been agreed upon, let it go forward.

He shed the arrows on to the ground at his feet and said, "The mighty contest is at an end."

Minerva now put it in Penelope's mind to make the suitors try their skill with the bow and with the iron axes, in contest among themselves, as a means of bringing about their destruction.

I dare say he is clever, but I never had much conversation with him.

The whole conversation ran on the breakfast, which one and all abused roundly.

One may imagine her suffering on overhearing fragments of this sort of conversation.