7th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

Mr and Mrs Musgrove were a very good sort of people; friendly and hospitable, not much educated, and not at all elegant.

Peggotty and Ham knew what was in my thoughts as well as I did, and were ready with some supper and their hospitable faces to drive it away.

She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile.

By and by they separated into three hostile tribes, and darted upon each other from ambush with dreadful warwhoops, and killed and scalped each other by thousands.

There rose through the clear air a confused clattering and rumbling from this great mass of humanity, with the creaking of wheels and the neighing of horses.

Fagin was sufficiently well acquainted with the manners and customs of that particular species of humanity to which Nancy belonged, to feel tolerably certain that it would be rather unsafe to prolong any conversation with her, at present.

Three days and nights of toil and hunger in the cave were not to be shaken off at once, as Tom and Becky soon discovered.

It has not been, sir, without some trouble that I have effected this; but trouble in your service is to me a pleasure, and hunger, thirst, and cold a real gratification.

With the deep hunger of an Irishman who has been a tenant on the lands his people once had owned and hunted, he wanted to see his own acres stretching green before his eyes.

Letters from men at the front complained constantly of shoes that wore out in a week, gunpowder that would not ignite, harness that snapped at any strain, meat that was rotten and flour that was full of weevils.

Men were very kind to the person she was, but rather cruel to the female, despising her or ignoring her altogether.

She knew that to uphold this dignity, they must ignore what she said, even if she stood in the next room and almost shouted.

Venn was not mistaken in supposing that any person who had sunk for the last time would be washed down to this point, for when they had examined to about halfway across something impeded their thrust.

Norris might never have saved her money; but having no care of that kind, there was nothing to impede her frugality, or lessen the comfort of making a yearly addition to an income which they had never lived up to.

Instead of there being before him the pale face of Eustacia, and a masculine shape unknown, there was only the imperturbable countenance of the heath, which, having defied the cataclysmal onsets of centuries, reduced to insignificance by its seamed and antique features the wildest turmoil of a single man.

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.

He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure.

I am sure he still means to impose on me if possible, and get a cousin of his own into a certain mill, which I design for somebody else.

The world is blinded by his fortune and consequence, or frightened by his high and imposing manners, and sees him only as he chooses to be seen.

In the years that followed that second christening, many changes had taken place in her that made the pet name incongruous.

It might have seemed to him a waste of pomp and ammunition to kill a bug with a battery of artillery, but there seemed nothing incongruous about the getting up such an expensive thunderstorm as this to knock the turf from under an insect like himself.

James Harthouse looked at her with an incredulous smile upon his lips; but her mind looked over and beyond him, and the smile was quite thrown away.

I go home, more incredulous than ever, to a lodging that I have hard by; and get up very early in the morning, to ride to the Highgate road and fetch my aunt.

With indomitable patience and perseverance, Jefferson Hope possessed also a power of sustained vindictiveness, which he may have learned from the Indians amongst whom he had lived.

For the rest, among the old trees was depth within depth of grey, hopeless inertia, silence, nothingness.

This is by no means a disparagement to his character; for many official personages, who are held in high respect and admiration, are the victims of similar infirmities.

The old woman was so decent and contented, and made so light of her infirmities, though they had increased upon her since her former interview with Stephen, that they both took an interest in her.

She murmured, however, even in her reception of me, that she was out of her own chamber because its aspect was unsuited to her infirmity; and with her stately look repelled the least suspicion of the truth.

I awoke with them, often, in the night; I remember to have even read them, in dreams, inscribed upon the walls of houses.

These Seven Commandments would now be inscribed on the wall; they would form an unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live for ever after.

The interview left Sherlock Holmes very thoughtful, and several times in the next few days I saw him take his slip of paper from his notebook and look long and earnestly at the curious figures inscribed upon it.

Clifford sat in the pale sun, with the light on his smooth, rather blond hair, his reddish full face inscrutable.

For an hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever.

Bounderby sat looking at her, as, with the points of a stiff, sharp pair of scissors, she picked out holes for some inscrutable ornamental purpose, in a piece of cambric.

Shocked at first by his rudeness, the ladies finally became accustomed to him and, as he was so silent, except for intermittent explosions of tobacco juice, they took him as much for granted as the horses he drove and forgot his very existence.

He was almost barefoot, crawling with lice, and he was hungry, but his irascible spirit was unimpaired.

Brownlow, who was himself of an irascible temperament, and party by such arguments and representations as seemed best calculated to dissuade him from his hotbrained purpose.

Sparsit, with an affectation of humility the very opposite of his, and therefore in no danger of jostling it.

He is down upon the pavement; and the crowd eagerly gather round him: each new comer, jostling and struggling with the others to catch a glimpse.

Invading Carpetbaggers made Atlanta their headquarters and on the streets they jostled against representatives of the oldest families in the South who were likewise newcomers in the town.

You never gave a damn about the late lamented Confederacy and you care less about the starving Confederates.

Your profusion makes me saving; and if you lament over him much longer, my heart will be as light as a feather.

He did believe it, as the noise without shook the window, rattled at the door below, and went about the house clamouring and lamenting.

Jack Maldon shook hands with me; but not very warmly, I believed; and with an air of languid patronage, at which I secretly took great umbrage.

Her breath, her skin, her lips, all flattered Elinor with signs of amendment; and Marianne fixed her eyes on her with a rational, though languid, gaze.

In India she had always been too hot and languid and weak to care much about anything, but in this place she was beginning to care and to want to do new things.

Beyond the irregular carpet of grass was a row of white palings, which marked the verge of the heath in this latitude.

He did not want them to die of love; but with sense and temper which ought to have made him judge and feel better, he allowed himself great latitude on such points.

He is a lecturer and a consultant, but he does not care for general practice, which distracts him from his literary work.

I can only give short lectures now because I am very young, and besides Ben Weatherstaff would feel as if he were in church and he would go to sleep.

Linton, to mend matters, paid us a visit himself on the morrow, and read the young master such a lecture on the road he guided his family, that he was stirred to look about him, in earnest.

While he said these words in a leisurely, critical style, she continued to look at every one of us in regular succession as we sat.

He was kissing her now and his mustache tickled her mouth, kissing her with slow, hot lips that were so leisurely as though he had the whole night before him.

After walking several miles in a leisurely manner, and too busy to know anything about it, they found at last, on examining their watches, that it was time to be at home.

I will appeal to the law too; but when you have gone too far to recede, do not sue to me for leniency, when the power will have passed into other hands; and do not say I plunged you down the gulf into which you rushed, yourself.

They ruled that no one could get a letter our of the post office without taking the Iron Clad oath and, in some instances, they even prohibited the issuance of marriage licenses unless the couples had taken the hated oath.

It was impossible but that Mrs Clay must hate the sight of Mr Elliot; and yet she could assume a most obliging, placid look, and appear quite satisfied with the curtailed license of devoting herself only half as much to Sir Walter as she would have done otherwise.

His eyes fell again on the bottle, and a tremble passed over him, causing him to shiver in every limb.

Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional strength in the others.

His hands were clenched and his arms thrown abroad, while his lower limbs were interlocked as though his death struggle had been a grievous one.

She knew I did; for the stateliness of her manner already abated towards me, except when she spoke in praise of him, and then her air was always lofty.

Sir Walter had taken a very good house in Camden Place, a lofty dignified situation, such as becomes a man of consequence; and both he and Elizabeth were settled there, much to their satisfaction.

The shadow of a man who was seated in a chair within was thrown in hard, black outline upon the luminous screen of the window.

Though her eyes were closed, one could easily imagine the light necessarily shining in them as the culmination of the luminous workmanship around.

There was no one to tell Scarlett that her own personality, frighteningly vital though it was, was more attractive than any masquerade she might adopt.

Their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor.

It is true that you have missed everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and you have a quick eye for colour.

His method is as follows: He allows it to be known that he is prepared to pay very high sums for letters which compromise people of wealth and position.

The actors in the mimic life of the theatre, are blind to violent transitions and abrupt impulses of passion or feeling, which, presented before the eyes of mere spectators, are at once condemned as outrageous and preposterous.

In that section, the Confederate sympathizers were in the minority and the hand of war fell heavily upon them, as it did on all the border states, neighbor informing against neighbor and brother killing brother.

If it were a girl, it was to inherit the money unconditionally; but if a boy, only on the stipulation that in his minority he should never have stained his name with any public act of dishonour, meanness, cowardice, or wrong.

He was a sort of town traveller for a number of miscellaneous houses, now; but made little or nothing of it, I am afraid.

Thus the night revealed little of her whose form it was embracing, for the mobile parts of her countenance could not be seen.

I candidly own that I have modified my views a little, in deference to you; and it should satisfy you.

To whom I imparted how my uncle had come in the night and was then asleep, and how the breakfast preparations were to be modified accordingly.

When he was very much interested he often spoke quite broad Yorkshire though at other times he tried to modify his dialect so that Mary could better understand.

Chilling winds swept beneath the doorsills and rattled the loose windowpanes with a monotonous tinkling sound.

It was like my own marsh country, flat and monotonous, and with a dim horizon; while the winding river turned and turned, and the great floating buoys upon it turned and turned, and everything else seemed stranded and still.