6th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

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

Now for the eyes: I had left them to the last, because they required the most careful working.

I shook my head: it required a degree of courage, excited as he was becoming, even to risk that mute sign of dissent.

I found it a large, handsome residence, showing abundant evidences of wealth in the proprietor.

For a moment I considered it absurd that I should need such a weapon to gain admittance into my own residence.

Though I would give no information, he discovered, through some of the other servants, both her place of residence and the existence of the child.

and wonder possessed all hearts, but respect restrained.

She does not scold at all, and always calls me Miss Margaret, which is quite proper, you know, and treats me with respect.

Be careful, be very careful, not to wake his anger against yourself, for peace and happiness depend on keeping his respect.

Besides, I was the one responsible for it.

All the different ways of getting hot and tired were gone through with, and by-and-by the rovers straggled back to camp fortified with responsible appetites, and then the destruction of the good things began.

Because then I have no responsibility.

I have great hopes of finding him quite the reverse.

If you had just reversed the nod and the bow, it would have been right, said Amy reprovingly.

He scrutinised the reverse of these living medals some five minutes, then pronounced sentence.

He said she would slap down a line, and if she couldn't find anything to rhyme with it would just scratch it out and slap down another one, and go ahead.

The ridge our cavern was in was full of them.

Mr. Heathcliff advanced, and lifted him to lean against a ridge of turf.

This place was a tolerable long, steep hill or ridge about forty foot high.

But in this world we must risk something.

He felt willing to risk Injun Joe and all other terrors.

I could risk no sort of answer by this time: my heart was still.

But the sausage remained so long away, that they became uneasy, and the bird flew out to meet him.

Once upon a time, a mouse, a bird, and a sausage, entered into partnership and set up house together.

They therefore drew lots, and it fell to the sausage to bring in the wood, to the mouse to cook, and to the bird to fetch the water.

The Englishman turned down his shirt-collar, and showed a scar, whose redness proved it to be a recent one.

So we unhitched a skiff and pulled down the river two mile and a half, to the big scar on the hillside, and went ashore.

And indeed as soon as she began washing her master, she at once knew the scar as one that had been given him by a wild boar when he was hunting on Mt.

I liked to learn of her: I saw the part of instructress pleased and suited her; that of scholar pleased and suited me no less.

Fortunately, curiosity and a quick intellect made her an apt scholar: she learned rapidly and eagerly, and did honour to his teaching.

I had been sitting near this door, finishing off the last sock, and trying to understand what he said to a new scholar, who is as stupid as I am.

You have selected a most unfavorable moment for your first visit.

The party seemed so well selected, so suitable one with the other.

We discerned Linton watching at the same spot he had selected before.

Remember that, and be a sensible girl, said the old lady impressively.

Being sensible girls, they decided to try her advice, and soon were surprised to see how well off they were.

She eats and drinks and sleeps like a sensible creature, she looks straight in my face when I talk about that man, and only blushes a little bit when Teddy jokes about lovers.

Behind the sentinel was a staircase with twenty steps.

At midnight the sentinel gave the alarm, and in an instant all were on the alert.

Then his two guides took his arms, and he went on, guided by them, and preceded by the sentinel.

Hannah is a model servant, and guards pretty Meg like a dragon.

He had done so before an upper servant told him to come to the bath and wash himself.

Slipping out, she ran down and, finding a servant, asked if he could get her a carriage.

Well, we will share it, Nora, as man and wife should.

The swineherd, who was a most equitable man, then stood up to give every one his share.

Yes, I wanted you to see how the comfort of all depends on each doing her share faithfully.

At this moment two women entered, bringing salvers filled with ices and sherbet, which they placed on two small tables appropriated to that purpose.

The bell here rang for the third time, with another shriek of anguish.

I heard Glumdalclitch give a shriek at the moment he was carrying me out.

Madame Danglars had listened to this recital with a sigh, a tear, or a shriek for every detail.

From such a connection she could not wonder that he would shrink.

So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was delighted to find that she began shrinking directly.

As for herself, she was busy at her loom, shooting her golden shuttle through the warp and singing beautifully.

But below your signature there were a few lines constituting your father a surety for the money; those lines your father should have signed.

I will take the five scraps of paper that I now hold as bonds, with your signature alone, and here is a receipt in full for the six millions between us.

This second signature explained everything to Franz, who now understood the objection of the messenger to coming up into the apartment; the street was safer for him.

We will produce the skeleton of that cat.

I had quite lost my stomach, and was almost reduced to a skeleton.

This feather was picked up from the heath, the bird was not shot: we saw its nest in the winter, full of little skeletons.

Then the slaughterer said he would do as she wished; and cut off the head, and nailed it up under the dark gate.

Then he clubbed the pig with a billet of oak which he had kept back when he was chopping the firewood, and stunned it, while the others slaughtered and singed it.

I know poetry is not dead, nor genius lost; nor has Mammon gained power over either, to bind or slay: they will both assert their existence, their presence, their liberty and strength again one day.

Such plays and tableaux, such sleigh rides and skating frolics, such pleasant evenings in the old parlor, and now and then such gay little parties at the great house.

A sleigh ride had been planned, but the girls would not leave their father, so the guests departed early, and as twilight gathered, the happy family sat together round the fire.

So I went to talking about other kings, and let Solomon slide.

As he turned aside his face a minute, I saw a tear slide from under the sealed eyelid, and trickle down the manly cheek.

About this time I mighty near stepped on a good-sized snake, and it went sliding off through the grass and flowers, and I after it, trying to get a shot at it.

He soon perceived that a slope had been formed, and the rock had slid along this until it stopped at the spot it now occupied.

And up the slope into the old church went all the kings and queens of Denmark, hand in hand, all with their golden crowns; and the organ played and the fountains rustled.

Monte Cristo remembered that on that very spot, on the same rock, he had been violently dragged by the guards, who forced him to ascend the slope at the points of their bayonets.

Their meat became smeared with blood; their eyes filled with tears, and their hearts were heavy with forebodings.

The old Welshman came home toward daylight, spattered with candle-grease, smeared with clay, and almost worn out.

Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do.

But, my dear, your father cannot spare the horses, I am sure.

Now, therefore, that he has met the death which was his due, spare the lives of your people.

I longed to be his; I panted to return: it was not too late; I could yet spare him the bitter pang of bereavement.

There he called his wife, and showed me to her; but she screamed and ran back, as women in England do at the sight of a toad or a spider.

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.

I suspect that the real attraction was a large library of fine books, which was left to dust and spiders since Uncle March died.

I think they are great nonsense, and I'll thank you not to be silly and spoil my fun.

I'm afraid I shall do something dreadful some day, and spoil my life, and make everybody hate me.

I mean it kindly, and don't want you to spoil your whole life by making a mistake at the beginning.

Injun Joe put his hand on his knife, halted a moment, undecided, and then turned toward the stairway.

Then he skipped out, and saw Sid just starting up the outside stairway that led to the back rooms on the second floor.

He found that it curtained a sort of steep natural stairway which was enclosed between narrow walls, and at once the ambition to be a discoverer seized him.

The poor unfortunate had starved to death.

Jim laid it in with all his might, for he was most about starved.

I will put bread, wine, and water on board to save you from starving.

de Villefort remained mute and cold as a statue.

He went on as a statue would, that is, he neither spoke nor moved.

Had he been a statue instead of a man, he could not have been easier.

Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy.

He presently encountered her and delivered a stinging remark as he passed.

These insects were as large as partridges: I took out their stings, found them an inch and a half long, and as sharp as needles.

I can receive nothing from a stranger.

Mother, the stranger man has gone out through the gate.

And now, my good fellow, I want to know about this stranger.

This belief strengthened daily.

This, in connection with his costume, strengthened the good woman in the belief that he was a foreigner.

I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed to entertain of me.

I likewise broke my right shin against the shell of a snail, which I happened to stumble over, as I was walking alone and thinking on poor England.

Presently he stumbled upon Huck Finn the Red-Handed.

I stumbled over an obstacle: my head was still dizzy, my sight was dim, and my limbs were feeble.