6th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

Then, infusing all the humility he possessed into his eyes and voice, he addressed the inspector, and sought to inspire him with pity.

But there is no need to know danger in order to fear it; indeed, it may be observed, that it is usually unknown perils that inspire the greatest terror.

This is all I know, but I know not, count, how you contrived to inspire so much respect in the bandits of Rome who ordinarily have so little respect for anything.

It amazes me, I confess; for, certainly, there can be nothing so advantageous to them as instruction.

I always say that nothing is to be done in education without steady and regular instruction, and nobody but a governess can give it.

Days, even months, passed by unheeded in one rapid and instructive course.

At a notice that I could do with her no longer intercepting my light, she removed to the hearthstone.

I guessed, however, by his irregular and intercepted breathing, that he struggled to vanquish an excess of violent emotion.

Well, I have not intercepted your confidence, and yet I know all that as well as you, and I have no conscientious scruples.

In his last he recommended my jewel to be careful of his; and kind to her when he got her.

To examine and arrange these things gave Amy great satisfaction, especially the jewel cases, in which on velvet cushions reposed the ornaments which had adorned a belle forty years ago.

Mademoiselle Eugenie was dressed with elegant simplicity in a figured white silk dress, and a white rose half concealed in her jet black hair was her only ornament, unaccompanied by a single jewel.

And told him how to keep a journal on the shirt with his blood, and all that.

Our voyage was very prosperous, but I shall not trouble the reader with a journal of it.

Franz anticipated his wishes by saying that the noise fatigued him, and that he should pass the next day in writing and looking over his journal.

The solo over, a duet followed, and then a glee: a joyous conversational murmur filled up the intervals.

Like everything else, we must habituate the senses to a fresh impression, gentle or violent, sad or joyous.

I had the pleasure of feeling that my arrangements met their wishes exactly, and that what I had done added a vivid charm to their joyous return home.

I have known him too long and too well to be a fair judge.

Only you had not sufficient knowledge to judge of the means you used.

You must give me leave to judge for myself, and pay me the compliment of believing what I say.

My sister, who is more than ten years my junior, was left to the guardianship of my mother's nephew, Colonel Fitzwilliam, and myself.

The moment he read it, he packed his knapsack, bade adieu to his fellow pedestrians, and was off to keep his promise, with a heart full of joy and sorrow, hope and suspense.

However, they put all that was given them into their knapsacks; and continued to work with as much apparent diligence as before at their empty looms.

They asked for the most delicate silk and the purest gold thread; put both into their own knapsacks; and then continued their pretended work at the empty looms until late at night.

Then I kneaded the wax in my strong hands till it became soft, which it soon did between the kneading and the rays of the sun-god son of Hyperion.

Only you had not sufficient knowledge to judge of the means you used.

I rather expected, from my knowledge of her affability, that it would happen.

Meg liked his quiet manners and considered him a walking encyclopedia of useful knowledge.

There was no label this time with the words 'DRINK ME,' but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips.

"If you mean libel, I'd say so, and not talk about labels, as if Papa was a pickle bottle," advised Jo, laughing.

Then I launched out into the path that was opened to me.

We soon launched the boat, and all eight of us got into it.

The father launched towards his son a glance of bitter contempt.

Then they stood there, with their hands on the ledge of the berth, and talked.

In fact, it formed a little closet, and the ledge of a window, which it enclosed, served as a table.

He was leaning against the ledge of an open lattice, but not looking out: his face was turned to the interior gloom.

This gloomy fortress, which has for more than three hundred years furnished food for so many wild legends, seemed to Dantes like a scaffold to a malefactor.

The lobster was a scarlet mystery to her, but she hammered and poked till it was unshelled and its meager proportions concealed in a grove of lettuce leaves.

The walk revived her spirits, and flattering herself that she had made good bargains, she trudged home again, after buying a very young lobster, some very old asparagus, and two boxes of acid strawberries.

We can do without lobsters, you know.

In this edifice it was determined I should lodge.

The little light in the lodge had long been extinct.

I was to leave Gateshead that day by a coach which passed the lodge gates at six a.

The general fell, then, in a loyal duel, and not in ambush as it might have been reported.

Linton, on the contrary, displayed the true courage of a loyal and faithful soul: he trusted God; and God comforted him.

Ali, smiling, repeated the sound, grasped the reins with a firm hand, and spurred his horses, whose beautiful manes floated in the breeze.

"I think there is somebody just behind us," said Gerda; and something rushed past: it was like shadowy figures on the wall; horses with flowing manes and thin legs, huntsmen, ladies and gentlemen on horseback.

It was a marvellous effort of perspicacity to discover that I did not love her.

Then he saw a woman of marvellous beauty appear on the threshold of the door separating the two rooms.

The journey was performed with that marvellous rapidity which the unlimited power of the count ever commanded.

Then they went back to the meadow together, but someone had stolen the calf, and it was gone.

Like her sister she awoke in the beautiful meadow, and walked over it till she came to the oven.

When they came to the meadow, there lay the wolf by the tree and snored so loud that the branches shook.

It was yet night, but July nights are short: soon after midnight, dawn comes.

The wind sighed low in the firs: all was moorland loneliness and midnight hush.

Seven hours until midnight; and then four-and-twenty hours until the next midnight.

Hastily snatching up the lighted candle, I hurried to the staircase; about midway a body was lying quite across the stairs.

The ledge, where I placed my candle, had a few mildewed books piled up in one corner; and it was covered with writing scratched on the paint.

So the master of Monte Cristo gives himself airs befitting a great millionaire or a capricious beauty.

To Danglars Monte Cristo also wrote, requesting him to excuse the whimsical gift of a capricious millionaire, and to beg the baroness to pardon the Eastern fashion adopted in the return of the horses.

You do not know these ultramontane millionaires; they are regular misers.

An hour or two sufficed to sketch my own portrait in crayons; and in less than a fortnight I had completed an ivory miniature of an imaginary Blanche Ingram.

She approached and saw the likeness of Mr. Wickham, suspended, amongst several other miniatures, over the mantelpiece.

This room was my late master's favourite room, and these miniatures are just as they used to be then.

You are not really shocked: for, with your superior mind, you cannot be either so dull or so conceited as to misunderstand my meaning.

I cannot misunderstand you, but I entreat you, dear Lizzy, not to pain me by thinking that person to blame, and saying your opinion of him is sunk.

I believe there were some misunderstandings between them.

As soon as she saw him she seized his hand; her own hands were moist and icy cold.

And while he smiled as he attempted to regard the affair as a joke, he felt his temples get moist with perspiration.

Villefort fell back on his chair, passed his hand over his brow, moist with perspiration, and, for the third time, read the letter.

A tear moistened the eye of the phlegmatic Englishman.

He took the sponge, dipped it in, and moistened the corpse-like face; he asked for my smelling-bottle, and applied it to the nostrils.

The clock of the Invalides struck a quarter to twelve; the west wind bore on its moistened gusts the doleful vibration of the three strokes.

There was something mysterious in the air that morning.

She only knew that people were ill and that she heard mysterious and frightening sounds.

Once there, she composed herself, hailed a passing omnibus, and rolled away to town, looking very merry and mysterious.

Again Sam vanished; and mystery, animation, expectation rose to full flow once more.

She averred they were a mystery to herself, and that what she knew was chiefly from conjecture.

A slight incident gave Jo the clue to the mystery, she thought, and lively fancy, loving heart did the rest.

Not a single thing more, for being so naughty.

The naughty thing never made her appearance at tea.

Ah, yes, I hear these naughty ones go to vex you, Mees Marsch.

It was something like a ring of rusty iron or brass and when the robin flew up into a tree nearby she put out her hand and picked the ring up.

Mary was sitting on her stool nearby and she suddenly made a very queer sound which she tried so violently to repress that she ended by almost choking.

I, too, covet that, but not as a necklace.

In seeking these articles, I encountered the beads of a pearl necklace Mr. Rochester had forced me to accept a few days ago.

A set of silver filagree was added, bracelets, necklace, brooch, and even earrings, for Hortense tied them on with a bit of pink silk which did not show.

She looked nervous and excited.

When she was discontented, she fancied herself nervous.

People who suffer as I do from nervous complaints can have no great inclination for talking.

He gave the noisy bird a knock on his beak, and walked on.

Sometimes Leah is with her; they are frequently noisy together.

Lydia was Lydia still; untamed, unabashed, wild, noisy, and fearless.

I explained that they were bare masses of stone, with hardly enough earth in their clefts to nourish a stunted tree.

Everything nourishes what is strong already.

These circumstances, added to the refreshment I had received by their victuals and drink, which were very nourishing, disposed me to sleep.