6th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

Now do let me please myself by dressing you up in style.

The sweeping style suits you best, and you must learn to trail your skirts gracefully.

The next day was fine, and Meg departed in style for a fortnight of novelty and pleasure.

She brought so much love, energy, and cheerfulness to the work that she could not but succeed, in spite of some obstacles.

But he did not succeed, and became too intoxicated to fetch any more drink, and yet not so intoxicated as to forget what had happened.

I do not much think they will succeed; it is more likely that some of those who are now eating up your property will find a grave themselves.

The sun was low, and the heavens glowed with the splendor of an autumn sunset.

These words came back to Meg, as she sat sewing in the sunset, especially the last.

The sons of Atreus called a meeting which was not as it should be, for it was sunset and the Achaeans were heavy with wine.

As the distance increased between the travellers and Paris, almost superhuman serenity appeared to surround the count; he might have been taken for an exile about to revisit his native land.

She wrote cheerfully, seemed surrounded with comforts, and mentioned nothing which she could not praise.

Then Jove spread panic among my men, and they would no longer face the enemy, for they found themselves surrounded.

The wish of procuring her regard, which she had assured herself of his feeling in Derbyshire, could not in rational expectation survive such a blow as this.

I believe that I alone, of all my countrymen, survived that dreadful war.

Poor man, I pitied him, and when the girls were gone, took just one more peep to see if he survived it.

There is another task I must undertake first.

Here was the task, not what she had expected, but better because self had no part in it.

And I saw Sisyphus at his endless task raising his prodigious stone with both his hands.

Send a telegram saying I will come at once.

Five minutes after the new telegram reached the minister, Debray had the horses put to his carriage, and drove to Danglars' house.

Beth, who was ready first, kept reporting what went on next door, and enlivened her sisters' toilets by frequent telegrams from the window.

They passed to the third story; it was the telegraph room.

Every man has a devouring passion in his heart, as every fruit has its worm; that of the telegraph man was horticulture.

No need of the as yet un-dreamed-of telegraph; the tale flew from man to man, from group to group, from house to house, with little less than telegraphic speed.

Franz adjusted his telescope, and directed it towards the yacht.

Then, without taking his eyes from the object which had first attracted his attention, he asked for his telescope.

The place is stored with great variety of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabes, and other astronomical instruments.

It was a terrible spectacle: I witnessed it myself.

I could hear the owls and the wolves away off in the woods, and it seemed terrible still.

I was in a terrible fright, and kept as far as I could from the edge, for fear of falling.

I turned my prayer to thanksgiving: the Source of Life was also the Saviour of spirits.

The family cardcase having done its duty the girls walked on, and Jo uttered another thanksgiving on reaching the fifth house, and being told that the young ladies were engaged.

Yes, which catches the thief in a trap and plays a tune.

The door opened so quietly that the thief heard no sound; but, to his astonishment, the room was suddenly illuminated.

The count placed himself between Caderousse and the window, thus cutting off from the thief his only chance of retreat.

This was the most sickening sight that I saw throughout all my voyages.

She stepped inside, but not a soul was to be seen, and a great silence reigned throughout.

Here he ended, and the guests sat all of them enthralled and speechless throughout the covered cloister.

de Villefort had long since had a tomb prepared for the reception of his family.

It beckoned, gliding noiselessly before him down a corridor as dark and cold as any tomb.

He then took an oath of bitter vengeance over the dead body of the one and the tomb of the other.

Tom got his lantern, lit it in the hogshead, wrapped it closely in the towel, and the two adventurers crept in the gloom toward the tavern.

When he entered the kitchen presently, with both eyes shut and groping for the towel with his hands, an honorable testimony of suds and water was dripping from his face.

Then patchwork or towels appeared, and Amy sewed with outward meekness and inward rebellion till dusk, when she was allowed to amuse herself as she liked till teatime.

Robert Brocklehurst is the treasurer.

Flimnap, the treasurer, is allowed to cut a caper on the straight rope, at least an inch higher than any other lord in the whole empire.

My friend Reldresal, principal secretary for private affairs, is, in my opinion, if I am not partial, the second after the treasurer; the rest of the great officers are much upon a par.

So she packed her small trunk and made the journey.

There was a seedy old chest, and an old hair trunk with the hinges broke.

Then we took the trunk and put it in my wagon, and he drove off his way and I drove mine.

Which decision proved that her second tumble down the beanstalk had done her some good.

The children seemed to tumble about and amuse themselves like a litter of rough, good-natured collie puppies.

On the river front some of the houses was sticking out over the bank, and they was bowed and bent, and about ready to tumble in.

As the school quieted down Tom made an honest effort to study, but the turmoil within him was too great.

The sudden extinction of the moccoletti, the darkness which had replaced the light, and the silence which had succeeded the turmoil, had left in Franz's mind a certain depression which was not free from uneasiness.

Mr. Brooke came for his umbrella, began Meg, wishing that Mr. Brooke and the umbrella were safely out of the house.

Then distorting his pockets with knobby bundles, and giving her the flowers to hold, he put up the old umbrella, and they traveled on again.

And having jumbled her father and the umbrella well together in her reply, Jo slipped out of the room to give Meg a chance to make her speech and air her dignity.

Being unable to sleep in bed, I got up and opened the window.

My child, let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life.

Mrs. Bennet deigned not to make any reply, but, unable to contain herself, began scolding one of her daughters.

The word 'Mother' suggested other maternal counsels given long ago, and received with unbelieving protests.

This uncertainty must be swept away.

I heard voices, too, speaking with a hollow sound, and as if muffled by a rush of wind or water: agitation, uncertainty, and an all-predominating sense of terror confused my faculties.

Summer drew to an end, and early autumn: it was past Michaelmas, but the harvest was late that year, and a few of our fields were still uncleared.

Indeed, Mr. Collins, all praise of me will be unnecessary.

Heathcliff had not the habit of bestowing a single unnecessary civility on Miss Linton, I knew.

But if you spend it all on the housekeeping and any number of unnecessary things, then I merely have to pay up again.

Say that urgent business calls us home immediately.

It is urgent that I should have this money without delay.

In the afternoon Lydia was urgent with the rest of the girls to walk to Meryton, and to see how everybody went on; but Elizabeth steadily opposed the scheme.

But the principal difficulty was to raise and place me in this vehicle.

About noon, I saw coming towards the house a kind of vehicle drawn like a sledge by four Yahoos.

The vehicle had stopped at the wicket; the driver opened the door: first one well-known form, then another, stepped out.

Jo glanced at the sheet and saw a pleasing illustration composed of a lunatic, a corpse, a villain, and a viper.

Earnshaw swore passionately at me: affirming that I loved the villain yet; and calling me all sorts of names for the base spirit I evinced.

I obeyed; and hemmed, and called the villain Juno, who deigned, at this second interview, to move the extreme tip of her tail, in token of owning my acquaintance.

But my account of this voyage must be referred to the Second Part of my Travels.

He sent me with a band of roving robbers to Egypt; it was a long voyage and I was undone by it.

I shall not trouble the reader with a particular account of this voyage, which was very prosperous for the most part.

Just the same as though you prayed that a physician might only be called upon to prescribe for headaches, measles, and the stings of wasps, or any other slight affection of the epidermis.

I surveyed the weapon inquisitively.

He prizes me as a soldier would a good weapon; and that is all.

When he was only a few paces from me, I saw that what I had taken for a weapon was only a spade.

At once weary and content, I slept soon and soundly: when I awoke it was broad day.

After a weary process, and resting every five minutes, I succeeded in dressing myself.

We took our tea together; and afterwards she lay down on the rug, and told me not to talk, for she was weary.