7th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

It is not a fortunate discovery, and is not likely ever to enrich me in reputation, station, fortune, anything.

The air that would be healthful to the earth, the water that would enrich it, the heat that would ripen it, tear it when caged up.

The negroes had frolicked through the legislature, grasping aliens had mismanaged the government, private individuals had enriched themselves from public funds.

They knew they were sitting on a volcano, but until that volcano erupted there was nothing they could do.

It appeared, in answer to my inquiries, that nobody had the least idea of the etymology of this terrible verb passive to be gormed; but that they all regarded it as constituting a most solemn imprecation.

In these accomplishments the twins excelled, and they were equally outstanding in their notorious inability to learn anything contained between the covers of books.

Men who die from heart disease, or any sudden natural cause, never by any chance exhibit agitation upon their features.

The red fox made him say all this, I knew, to exhibit him to me in the light he had indicated on the night when he poisoned my rest.

Joe darted a look at him, and, when her eyes were withdrawn, secretly crossed his two forefingers, and exhibited them to me, as our token that Mrs.

His head had been horribly mutilated by an expanding revolver bullet, but no weapon of any sort was to be found in the room.

Merriwether, wishing to expand her growing bakery, had tried to borrow two thousand dollars from the bank with her house as security.

They dried their boiled ham and had a feast, and after that they sat by the fire and expanded and glorified their midnight adventure until morning, for there was not a dry spot to sleep on, anywhere around.

There was an improving party assembled on the auspicious occasion, who knew what everything they had to eat and drink was made of, and how it was imported or exported, and in what quantities, and in what bottoms, whether native or foreign, and all about it.

There was no other dwelling near, in that direction; and the prospect it commanded was very extensive.

The prospect in front was more extensive; it commanded the whole of the valley, and reached into the country beyond.

Dresses were made, jewellery was made, cakes and gloves were made, settlements were made, and an extensive assortment of Facts did appropriate honour to the contract.

The bottom of the vale was green to a width of ten yards or thereabouts, and the shining facets of frost upon the blades of grass seemed to move on with the shadows of those they surrounded.

It was not because I was faithful, but because Joe was faithful, that I never ran away and went for a soldier or a sailor.

Whatever happened she would remain faithful, work hard, carry out the orders that were given to her, and accept the leadership of Napoleon.

I told her that I believed she had given me a faithful account of herself, and that we had both been hapless instruments in designing hands.

I wish he could have witnessed the horrible avidity with which Oliver tore the bits asunder with all the ferocity of famine.

Once again it was being put about that all the animals were dying of famine and disease, and that they were continually fighting among themselves and had resorted to cannibalism and infanticide.

The felicitous idea occurred to me a morning or two later when I woke, that the best step I could take towards making myself uncommon was to get out of Biddy everything she knew.

He had remained in Shropshire, lamenting the blindness of his own pride, and the blunders of his own calculations, till at once released from Louisa by the astonishing and felicitous intelligence of her engagement with Benwick.

And they never believed her when she told them she had only seen one bloodhound in all her life and it was a small mild dog and not a huge ferocious mastiff.

I was in a state of ferocious virtue, however, as to young men who were not cutting down trees in the forest of difficulty; and my impression must be received with due allowance.

Dawkins gave his hat a ferocious cock, after delivering this sentiment, and looked at Master Bates, as if to denote that he would feel obliged by his saying anything to the contrary.

All of the world was crying out for cotton, and the new land of the County, unworn and fertile, produced it abundantly.

Micawber, giving his mind to a profession so adapted to his fertile resources, and his flow of language, must distinguish himself.

The contrast resembled what you see in exchanging a bleak, hilly, coal country for a beautiful fertile valley; and his voice and greeting were as opposite as his aspect.

The distant rims of the world and of the firmament seemed to be a division in time no less than a division in matter.

Before him and behind: above, below, on the right and on the left: he seemed to stand surrounded by a firmament, all bright with gleaming eyes.

As they drew nearer to the front of the house the mummers became aware that music and dancing were briskly flourishing within.

For some years the organisation flourished in spite of the efforts of the United States government and of the better classes of the community in the South.

Sikes proceeded to drink brandy at a furious rate, and to flourish the crowbar in an alarming manner; yelling forth, at the same time, most unmusical snatches of song, mingled with wild execrations.

I always thought this was business, this was the way to confront the thing, this was the way to take the foe by the throat.

Suddenly the child she was carrying became a nauseating burden instead of something she had gladly carried, and this man before her, standing carelessly with his wide Panama hat upon his hip, her bitterest foe, the cause of all her troubles.

In fact, he knew she would never recover should she learn that her daughters had been exposed to so frank a conversation.

The sight of the fair young girl, as frank and wholesome as the Sierra breezes, had stirred his volcanic, untamed heart to its very depths.

At school she had used to side with the Philistines in several battles, and had wondered if Pontius Pilate were as handsome as he was frank and fair.

This endurance made old Earnshaw furious, when he discovered his son persecuting the poor fatherless child, as he called him.

He had been lying on his face beating his pillow with his hands and he actually almost jumped around, he turned so quickly at the sound of the furious little voice.

As we turned him over I saw a hideous, sallow face, with writhing, furious features, glaring up at us, and I knew that it was indeed the man of the photograph whom we had secured.

When we met again next evening, Lestrade was furnished with much information concerning our prisoner.

They had not enjoyed themselves a quarter so much, before the entertainment was brightened with the excitement he furnished.

My room was at the top of the house, at the back: a close chamber; stencilled all over with an ornament which my young imagination represented as a blue muffin; and very scantily furnished.

By the time she caught sight of the Leyden house, she was beginning to pant, for her stays were tightly laced, but she did not slow her gait.

They were walking slowly; and though it was too dark for much discovery of character from aspect, the gait of them showed that they were not workers on the heath.

And finally there was a tremendous baying of dogs and a shrill crowing from the black cockerel, and out came Napoleon himself, majestically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side, and with his dogs gambolling round him.

I thoroughly gauged his disposition from his behaviour, and saw at once it would be folly to attempt humouring him.

He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine.

To continue in fistic phraseology, he had a genius for coming up to the scratch, wherever and whatever it was, and proving himself an ugly customer.

Thus it was that we parted without explanation: she waving her hand and smiling farewell from the coach window; her evil genius writhing on the roof, as if he had her in his clutches and triumphed.

Then she made a frown and a gesture to my mother, like one who was accustomed to be obeyed, to come and open the door.

The more I made faces and gestures to him to do it, the more confidential, argumentative, and polite, he persisted in being to Me.

With a threatening gesture of his hand, he turned from the door, and Ferrier heard his heavy step scrunching along the shingly path.

Looking down I saw a stately carriage and pair, the brilliant lamps gleaming on the glossy haunches of the noble chestnuts.

He was not far; I found him smoothing the glossy coat of the new pony in the stable, and feeding the other beasts, according to custom.

His red waistcoat was as glossy as satin and he flirted his wings and tail and tilted his head and hopped about with all sorts of lively graces.

Fanny looked on and listened, not unamused to observe the selfishness which, more or less disguised, seemed to govern them all, and wondering how it would end.

It was very strange that a young gentleman who had never been left to his own guidance for five consecutive minutes, should be incapable at last of governing himself; but so it was with Tom.

I had a good mind to ask an old man, in wire spectacles, who was breaking stones upon the road, to lend me his hammer for a little while, and let me begin to beat a path to Dora out of granite.

High up on the plateau at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, she saw rolling red hills wherever she looked, with huge outcroppings of the underlying granite and gaunt pines towering somberly everywhere.

The halt was but momentary, for the noise resolved itself into the steady bites of two animals grazing.

Nothing that he wore then fitted him or seemed to belong to him; and everything that he wore then grazed him.

But when we reached him, and that was scarcely a quarter of a mile from his own door, we found he had no horse; and we were forced to dismount, and leave ours to graze.

A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, thickening into a grove at the highest point.

Scarlett knew that the fragrance carried on the faint breeze came from the grove of great oaks in the rear of the big house.

Having obtained from this clerk a direction to the academic grove in question, I set out, the same afternoon, to visit my old schoolfellow.

Linton, on the third day, unbarred her door, and having finished the water in her pitcher and decanter, desired a renewed supply, and a basin of gruel, for she believed she was dying.

The room in which the boys were fed, was a large stone hall, with a copper at one end: out of which the master, dressed in an apron for the purpose, and assisted by one or two women, ladled the gruel at mealtimes.

This guileless confectioner was not by any means sober, and had a black eye in the green stage of recovery, which was painted over.

With old ladies you were sweet and guileless and appeared as simple minded as possible, for old ladies were sharp and they watched girls as jealously as cats, ready to pounce on any indiscretion of tongue or eye.

The eyes of the neighbors were expectantly upon him as they settled themselves in easier positions for a long harangue.

Then with his lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built firmly into the massive masonry.

At the same instant the bookcase at which Holmes pointed swung round upon a hinge, and a woman rushed out into the room.

My little portmanteau was in the boot under my feet; I had but to turn a hinge to get it out; I threw it down before me, got down after it, and was left at the first lamp on the first stones of the town pavement.

At my summons, instead of the man of violence whom we expected, a very old and wrinkled woman hobbled into the apartment.

Bidding the messenger walk fast, and not be all night hobbling up the stairs, she followed her from the room with a very ill grace, scolding all the way.

And as if a wind tossed him he got up and hobbled over to her, one shoe off and one shoe on, and took her in his arms, pressing her against his body, which somehow felt hurt right through.