7th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

The aristocracy of the lance has allied itself with the nobility of the cannon.

Then the Castle of Saint Angelo fired three cannon to indicate that number three had won.

You see, they was firing cannon over the water, trying to make my carcass come to the top.

Many nations are represented, many languages spoken, many costumes worn, and on a sunny day the spectacle is as gay and brilliant as a carnival.

Suddenly the bell that gives the signal for the end of the carnival sounded, and at the same instant all the moccoletti were extinguished as if by enchantment.

I went for it, cautious and slow.

Hereafter, we must be cautious how we vex her.

Huck was silent while he framed a duly cautious reply.

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She glanced round the room with its high ceiling and shadowy corners and dim fire-light.

And he touched the ceiling with the spray, and the ceiling rose so high, and where he had touched it there gleamed a golden star.

And then the marriage was celebrated.

And he said it would make us all celebrated that had a hand in it.

It is a very celebrated place, and everybody knows it East and West.

It is in poor taste to make a display of a challenge.

At this challenge, Vampa rose quickly, drawing at the same moment a pistol from his girdle.

So the next morning the wolf sent the boar to challenge Sultan to come into the wood to fight the matter.

It was the first of June; yet the morning was overcast and chilly: rain beat fast on my casement.

Jo was very busy in the garret, for the October days began to grow chilly, and the afternoons were short.

A sweep of chilly air passed by, rustling all the leaves and snowing the flaky ashes broadcast about the fire.

Then, when we had borne you to the ships out of the fray, we laid you on your bed and cleansed your fair skin with warm water and with ointments.

Ten years since, I flew through Europe half mad; with disgust, hate, and rage as my companions: now I shall revisit it healed and cleansed, with a very angel as my comforter.

A body can set down and read it off like coarse print.

When we got up-stairs to his room he got me a coarse shirt and a roundabout and pants of his, and I put them on.

The little bit of food that we people get is immediately burnt up with heavy logs; we do not swallow so much as you coarse, greedy folk.

The coincidence struck me as too awful and inexplicable to be communicated or discussed.

Thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion: we coincided, in short, perfectly.

The judges chosen were Mr. Oliver and an able lawyer: both coincided in my opinion: I carried my point.

He would collect his resources together.

They halted for a minute, during which he strove to collect his thoughts.

He moved away, walked up and down his cell to collect his thoughts, and then went back and listened.

When I left college, I was sent out to Jamaica, to espouse a bride already courted for me.

In his love of jokes, this young gentleman, though nearly through college, was a much of a boy as ever.

Ned, being in college, of course put on all the airs which freshmen think it their bounden duty to assume.

Where there is energy to command well enough, obedience never fails.

Well, at all events you know now that you can command me, body and soul.

Jane should therefore make the most of every half-hour in which she can command his attention.

Danglars was engaged at that moment, presiding over a railroad committee.

The committee decided to hear the letter; the count was thoughtful and silent.

I am at the command of the committee, and even claim the honor of being heard.

Having made this discovery she naturally thought it of enough interest to communicate to Colin.

I should still have my unblighted self to turn to: my natural unenslaved feelings with which to communicate in moments of loneliness.

One look was sufficient to tell her that her grandfather was suffering, and that there was much on his mind which he was wishing to communicate to her.

Discipline prevailed: in five minutes the confused throng was resolved into order, and comparative silence quelled the Babel clamour of tongues.

My watchfulness has been effectual; and though I certainly should be a more interesting object to all my acquaintances were I distractedly in love with him, I cannot say that I regret my comparative insignificance.

I, indeed, talked comparatively little, but I heard him talk with relish.

As he had a compassionate heart he pulled out his needle and thread, and sewed her together.

I began to dislike, more than to compassionate Linton, and to excuse his father in some measure for holding him cheap.

Darcy, in wretched suspense, could only say something indistinctly of his concern, and observe her in compassionate silence.

Now, Aeolus has six daughters and six lusty sons, so he made the sons marry the daughters, and they all live with their dear father and mother, feasting and enjoying every conceivable kind of luxury.

I cannot conceive what he has been doing.

I cannot conceive how you manage to doze out of doors, in the morning.

I do not condemn you, Albert; I only restrain you.

I am not so heartless as to condemn a man altogether because of a single false step of that kind.

Every criminal I condemn seems to me living evidence that I am not a hideous exception to the rest.

She felt comforted at once by the sympathy and confidence given her.

Stay till he comes, reader; and, when I disclose my secret to him, you shall share the confidence.

She gave him entire confidence, he gave her the help she needed, and both found consolation in the act.

All connection between us seemed now dissolved.

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

Far from desiring to publish the connection, he became as anxious to conceal it as myself.

I descended the staircase step by step; the only thing I could not conquer was a strange trembling in my knees.

Jo, dear, we all have our temptations, some far greater than yours, and it often takes us all our lives to conquer them.

Mamma thought the dear too young to be taught to conquer his prejudices, but Papa believed that it never was too soon to learn obedience.

I thanked her for her considerate choice, and as I really felt fatigued with my long journey, expressed my readiness to retire.

Unfortunately, however, Morrel had not only engagements with the house of Thomson & French, who had shown themselves so considerate towards him; and, as he had said, in business he had correspondents, and not friends.

She would not be burdened with her society for any consideration.

You have already as good as put your hand to the plough: you are too consistent to withdraw it.

But I thought it more consistent with prudence and justice to pass the remainder of my days with my wife and family.

I merely tell you to look into my conduct during the last four years that we have ceased to be husband and wife, and see whether it has not always been consistent.

Naturally I did not mean you to put that construction on it.

And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement.

This village, constructed in a singular and picturesque manner, half Moorish, half Spanish, still remains, and is inhabited by descendants of the first comers, who speak the language of their fathers.

He again paused: there seemed a reluctance to continue.

It is mine, at present; and, therefore, continue minutely.

It was reasonable, however, to hope that they would not continue long.

Many hundred large volumes have been published upon this controversy: but the books of the Big-endians have been long forbidden, and the whole party rendered incapable by law of holding employments.

So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness, in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the Houyhnhnms.

I was carried, as usual, in my travelling-box, which as I have already described, was a very convenient closet, of twelve feet wide.

It is probable Mr. Heathcliff proposed going from summer to summer, but never found a convenient opportunity; and now it is too late.

I suspected she might be right and I wrong; but I would not ponder the matter deeply; like Felix, I put it off to a more convenient season.

A few persons in the costume of the time of King Hans passed quickly by him.

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

Yes, and I must try and read through some of these before dinner; and I must think about your costume, too.

This was all my master thought fit to tell me, at that time, of what passed in the grand council.

The golden feather was brought to the king in the morning, and all the council was called together.

You are the chief man here, so it is only right that you should have a clean shirt when you attend meetings of the council.

I seemed to have something like a right to seek counsel here.

Tell her a part only, and keep your own counsel about the rest.

To my joy, he left us, after giving this judicious counsel, and Hindley stretched himself on the hearthstone.

She saw, with the creative eye of fancy, the streets of that gay bathing-place covered with officers.

How doth the little crocodile.

She cannot accuse me of showing one bit of deceitful softness.

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

There was no longer any deceit or bravado in the manner of the accused.

But do not deceive yourself into a belief that I will ever recede.

It was not my original intention to deceive, as I have deceived you.

I never meant to deceive you, but my spirits might often lead me wrong.