6th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

They tried to estimate how long they had been in the cave, but all they knew was that it seemed days and weeks, and yet it was plain that this could not be, for their candles were not gone yet.

I have not had so many opportunities of estimating the minuter propensities of his mind, his inclinations and tastes, as you have; but I have the highest opinion in the world of his goodness and sense.

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

It seemed a sort of last man among them, musing for a moment before dropping into eternal night with the rest of his race.

I came into the valley, as the evening sun was shining on the remote heights of snow, that closed it in, like eternal clouds.

Heathcliff shunned meeting us at meals; yet he would not consent formally to exclude Hareton and Cathy.

From that room, too, the daylight was completely excluded, and it had an airless smell that was oppressive.

I exclude extremes, of course; and a very close resemblance in all those points would be the likeliest way to produce an extreme.

They shot higher and higher and widened rapidly into a broad expanse of red before her terrified eyes.

Others, again, while this was in progress, lifted their eyes and swept the vast expanse of country commanded by their position, now lying nearly obliterated by shade.

Mary felt as if the drive would never come to an end and that the wide, bleak moor was a wide expanse of black ocean through which she was passing on a strip of dry land.

This frightened Oliver very much, and made him glad to get out of those villages with all possible expedition.

They lay around in the shade, after breakfast, while Huck had a smoke, and then went off through the woods on an exploring expedition.

The heat of the day had scarcely declined as yet, and she went along the sunny hills at a leisurely pace, there being ample time for her idle expedition.

Having unloosened the cravat of the man who still remained extended on the ground, she tottered towards the undertaker.

His voice was as smooth and suave as his countenance, as he advanced with a plump little hand extended, murmuring his regret for having missed us at his first visit.

If my family are at length sensible of the deprivation to which their own conduct has, in the past, exposed them, and now desire to extend the hand of fellowship, let it not be repulsed.

On the extreme verge of the horizon lie a long chain of mountain peaks, with their rugged summits flecked with snow.

So he took a chop by the bone in one hand, and a potato in the other, and ate away with a very good appetite, to my extreme satisfaction.

I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most extreme importance.

But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results.

There was no sign or trace of his passenger, and I fear it will be some time before he gets his fare.

There were apples, yams, peanuts and milk on the table at Tara but never enough of even this primitive fare.

If he could anyhow discover at what house the coachman had before set down his fare, he determined to make inquiries there, and hoped it might not be impossible to find out the stand and number of the coach.

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

We have in our police reports realism pushed to its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, neither fascinating nor artistic.

She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery.

That would be fatal, as only old men and very old ladies could belch without fear of social disapproval.

I was removed from my brigade and attached to the Berkshires, with whom I served at the fatal battle of Maiwand.

We had sprung to our feet, and for a few moments we stared in silent amazement at this ponderous piece of wreckage, which told of some sudden and fatal storm far out on the ocean of life.

There were harsh lines of fatigue and urgency in his face but his tattered gray hat was off with a sweep.

Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

Poor Oliver tried to keep up with the coach a little way, but was unable to do it, by reason of his fatigue and sore feet.

Crupp consented to achieve this feat, on condition that I dined from home for a fortnight afterwards.

It was the greatest feat of the war, and Atlanta took pride and personal satisfaction in the thought that its railroads had made the victory possible.

It was not then, but when we had got to the cheese, that our conversation turned upon our rowing feats, and that Drummle was rallied for coming up behind of a night in that slow amphibious way of his.

She gave some feeble signs of returning animation when they entered, and presently the faint transparency was presented in a sitting attitude.

At this point of the inquiry, Oliver raised his head; and, looking round with imploring eyes, murmured a feeble prayer for a draught of water.

He cried, he pleaded for forgiveness, promised to reform over and over again, and then received his dismissal, feeling that he had won but an imperfect forgiveness and established but a feeble confidence.

I stayed to dine at a decent alehouse, some mile or two from the Ferry I have mentioned before; and thus the day wore away, and it was evening when I reached it.

Every little while he locked me in and went down to the store, three miles, to the ferry, and traded fish and game for whisky, and fetched it home and got drunk and had a good time, and licked me.

On the present festive occasion he emerged from his room, when the blithe bells were going, the picture of misery, in a full suit of Sunday penitentials.

There remained varicolored cotton dresses which Scarlett felt were not festive enough for the occasion, ball dresses and the green sprigged muslin she had worn yesterday.

All you ever do is finance Carpetbaggers in their thieving and take half the profits and bribe Yankee officials to let you in on schemes to rob us taxpayers.

So alarming did the state of my finances become, that I soon realized that I must either leave the metropolis and rusticate somewhere in the country, or that I must make a complete alteration in my style of living.

Then I did the same for Herbert (who modestly said he had not my administrative genius), and felt that I had brought his affairs into a focus for him.

At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my declining years to the composition of a textbook, which shall focus the whole art of detection into one volume.

It indicates a spontaneous, Promethean rebelliousness against that fiat that this recurrent season shall bring foul times, cold darkness, misery and death.

His pride, in that direction, may be of service, if not to himself, to many others, for it must only deter him from such foul misconduct as I have suffered by.

Their convict uniforms were dirty and foul with sweat, shackles clanked between their ankles when they moved tiredly, and there was an air of apathy and despair about them.

Clym reached the hatches, the framework of which was shaken to its foundations by the velocity of the current.

I was angry at that false report, until, finding myself on my back in the passage, I began to think there might be some foundation for it.

Finally there came a night when the gale was so violent that the farm buildings rocked on their foundations and several tiles were blown off the roof of the barn.

She could look back, unmoved, at the pretty Scarlett with her fragile green morocco slippers and her flounces fragrant with lavender but she wondered if she could be that same girl.

Perhaps this and her healthy enjoyment of walking and riding had turned him from her to the frail Melanie.

The walls of his chest seemed to thrill and quiver as a frail building would do inside when some powerful engine was at work.

The nocturnal visitor was a young man, frail and thin, with a black moustache, which intensified the deadly pallor of his face.

Even in their extremity, they had not considered asking a widow of scarcely a year to appear at a social function.

Such was her intentness, however, that it seemed as if her ears were performing the functions of seeing as well as hearing.

The principal function of this retainer was to quarrel with the cook; in which respect he was a perfect Whittington, without his cat, or the remotest chance of being made Lord Mayor.

In this atmosphere, as nerve straining as watching a slow fuse burn toward a barrel of gunpowder, Scarlett came rapidly back to strength.

My child, Sherman has twice as many men as Johnston, and he can afford to lose two men for every one of our gallant laddies.

Without considering, perhaps, whether there were any consequences to be taken, I felt quite in a glow at this gallant speech.

As she sat down, her eyes once again encountered those of the gallant beadle; she coloured, and applied herself to the task of making his tea.

At the head of the column there rode a score or more of grave ironfaced men, clad in sombre homespun garments and armed with rifles.

He put his hand on his jacket pocket, found his piece of bark safe, and then struck through the woods, following the shore, with streaming garments.

Rhett had brought her that linen and lace from Nassau on the last boat he slipped through the blockade and she had worked a week to make the garment.

They continued to behave very much as before, and when treated with generosity, simply took advantage of it.

I am sure I can never feel thankful enough for the generosity with which he has protected me, so much younger and lower in the school than himself.

She was remembering the vital, virile old man with his mane of crisp white hair, his bellowing cheerfulness, his stamping boots, his clumsy jokes, his generosity.

It was a genuine relief to the whole congregation when the ordeal was over and the benediction pronounced.

Her features were handsome; but their natural play was so locked up, that it seemed impossible to guess at their genuine expression.

Then she could gradually rise up to the genuine satisfaction of having a partner, a voluntary partner, secured against the dancing began.

It was quite true, men had no real glamour for a woman: if you could fool yourself into thinking they had, even as she had fooled herself over Michaelis, that was the best you could do.

Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that he is one who should be deeply distrusted.

The speaker was a woman, gazing down upon the group from an upper window, whose panes blazed in the ruddy glare from the west.

In front of him, in the full glare of the electric light, there stood a tall, slim, dark woman, a veil over her face, a mantle drawn round her chin.

It was a pleasant land of white houses, peaceful plowed fields and sluggish yellow rivers, but a land of contrasts, of brightest sun glare and densest shade.

As the weeks went by, my interest in him and my curiosity as to his aims in life, gradually deepened and increased.

Gradually the cool dim gray of the morning whitened, and as gradually sounds multiplied and life manifested itself.

At last, as midnight approached and the street gradually cleared, he paced up and down the room in uncontrollable agitation.

The candle was relit, and there was our wretched captive, shivering and cowering in the grasp of the detective.

The grasp of his hand relaxed; the upraised arm fell languidly by his side; and he lay like one in a profound trance.

I seem to be in the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight and no precautions can guard against.

After that, Melanie noticed there was more food on the table when guests were present, even though Scarlett might grudge them every mouthful.

You may possibly remember that you chaffed me a little, some hours ago, when the sun seemed on your side of the hedge, so you must not grudge me a little pomp and ceremony now.

Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.

He said it in his grumbling voice, and then quite suddenly he seemed to get angry with her, though she did not see why he should.

Fortifying himself with this assurance, Sikes drained the glass to the bottom, and then, with many grumbling oaths, called for his physic.

Nobody stole, nobody grumbled over his rations, the quarrelling and biting and jealousy which had been normal features of life in the old days had almost disappeared.

Captain Wentworth was folding up a letter in great haste, and either could not or would not answer fully.

I uttered an expression of disgust, and pushed past him into the yard, running against Earnshaw in my haste.

It was as if I had seen her admiringly and tenderly embracing Dora, and tacitly reproving me, by her considerate protection, for my hot haste in fluttering that little heart.

The older, quieter cities were wont to look upon the bustling new town with the sensations of a hen which has hatched a duckling.

It appeared to me that the eggs from which young Insurers were hatched were incubated in dust and heat, like the eggs of ostriches, judging from the places to which those incipient giants repaired on a Monday morning.

A stump of hay and part of the potato crop were sold off, and the contract for eggs was increased to six hundred a week, so that that year the hens barely hatched enough chicks to keep their numbers at the same level.

THIS is not the place to commemorate the trials and privations endured by the immigrant Mormons before they came to their final haven.

Some, like Ellen, were members of old families who had found life intolerable in their former homes and sought haven in a distant land.

He had sold his boats when blockading grew too hazardous, and he was now openly engaged in food speculation.

His talk of shadow shows and hazy outlines conveyed no meaning to her but his last words were in language she could understand.

The solitary window was so dirty that the light was hazy and uncertain, giving a dull grey tinge to everything, which was intensified by the thick layer of dust which coated the whole apartment.

I shall call hills steep, which ought to be bold; surfaces strange and uncouth, which ought to be irregular and rugged; and distant objects out of sight, which ought only to be indistinct through the soft medium of a hazy atmosphere.

The house was large and handsome; and the Middletons lived in a style of equal hospitality and elegance.

The old portraits on the walls had been dignified and gracious and had looked down upon guests with an air of mellowed hospitality.

It has often led him to be liberal and generous, to give his money freely, to display hospitality, to assist his tenants, and relieve the poor.