7th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

Peggotty meant her nephew Ham, mentioned in my first chapter; but she spoke of him as a morsel of English Grammar.

Then the Jew, in an agony of impatience, watched every morsel he put into his mouth; pacing up and down the room, meanwhile, in irrepressible excitement.

She saw Frank coming across the floor toward her with a glass of blackberry wine in his hand and a morsel of cake on a saucer and she pulled her face into a smile.

For which cogent reason I kept Biddy at a distance during supper, and when I went up to my own old little room, took as stately a leave of her as I could, in my murmuring soul, deem reconcilable with the churchyard and the event of the day.

A white mast, fitted up with spars and other nautical tackle, could be seen rising against the dark clouds whenever the flames played brightly enough to reach it.

And when they come to look at that spare room they had to take soundings before they could navigate it.

For months afterwards, I every day settled the question finally in the negative, and reopened and reargued it next morning.

On my replying to both these questions in the negative, it occurred to me that I fell again in her good opinion; but she concealed the fact gracefully, and invited me to dinner next day.

Oliver, whose eyes had glistened at the mention of meat, and who was trembling with eagerness to devour it, replied in the negative; and a plateful of coarse broken victuals was set before him.

He had reached the neutral ground upon the outskirts of the town, which was neither town nor country, and yet was either spoiled, when his ears were invaded by the sound of music.

New Hope Church was a nightmare of another life and so was Big Shanty, where they turned and fought the Yankees like demons.

When I awoke, the recollection that Uriah was lying in the next room, sat heavy on me like a waking nightmare; and oppressed me with a leaden dread, as if I had had some meaner quality of devil for a lodger.

The marriage of a daughter, which had been the first object of her wishes since Jane was sixteen, was now on the point of accomplishment, and her thoughts and her words ran wholly on those attendants of elegant nuptials, fine muslins, new carriages, and servants.

The gushing fountains which sparkle in the sun, must not be stopped in mere caprice; the oasis in the desert of Sahara must not be plucked up idly.

At length Thomasin reached a hollow and began to discern through the rain a faint blotted radiance, which presently assumed the oblong form of an open door.

He is a curious, interesting, and nearly perished link between obsolete forms of life and those which generally prevail.

And sex was merely an accident, or an adjunct, one of the curious obsolete, organic processes which persisted in its own clumsiness, but was not really necessary.

We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of France.

On the present festive occasion he emerged from his room, when the blithe bells were going, the picture of misery, in a full suit of Sunday penitentials.

The themes were the same that had been illuminated upon similar occasions by their mothers before them, their grandmothers, and doubtless all their ancestors in the female line clear back to the Crusades.

I think it occurred to me that I had already begun it, in my poor way: but it occurs to me now, whether or no.

It seemed to be one of those senseless acts of Hooliganism which occur from time to time, and it was reported to the constable on the beat as such.

As a rule, when I have heard some slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my memory.

I heard the mice too, rattling behind the panels, as if the same occurrence were important to their interests.

It was while he was engaged in this pursuit, that he was greatly startled and distressed by a most unexpected occurrence.

I had imagined that I had reached the end of my adventures, but a very unexpected occurrence showed me that there were surprises still in store for me.

For frivolity and jokes and spotted tights were an offense, when they intruded themselves upon a spirit that was exalted into the vague august realm of the romantic.

But, she told herself time and again, she would have to walk easily, gingerly, be meek under insults, yielding to injustices, never giving offense to anyone, black or white, who might do her harm.

Rance sat down on the horsehair sofa, and knitted his brows as though determined not to omit anything in his narrative.

He did not omit to avail himself of the opportunity, cautiously and briefly; too cautiously to betray his presence by the slightest noise.

I cannot acquit him of that duty; nor could I think well of the man who should omit an occasion of testifying his respect towards anybody connected with the family.

A startling thought this, that a woman could handle business matters as well as or better than a man, a revolutionary thought to Scarlett who had been reared in the tradition that men were omniscient and women none too bright.

The fine flower of their intimacy was to her rather like an orchid, a bulb stuck parasitic on her tree of life, and producing, to her eyes, a rather shabby flower.

As we rolled into Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape.

It appeared to me that the eggs from which young Insurers were hatched were incubated in dust and heat, like the eggs of ostriches, judging from the places to which those incipient giants repaired on a Monday morning.

He then relapsed into his former state; nor did he rouse himself until his attention was again awakened by the voice of his partner.

Wilson, has been my partner and helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also.

Cathy begged that he might be liberated then, as Isabella Linton had no partner: her entreaties were vain, and I was appointed to supply the deficiency.

But they woke at dawn as usual, and suddenly remembering the glorious thing that had happened, they all raced out into the pasture together.

They did not like the dark shade of the thickets hedging the pasture creek, and they twitched their ears at Scarlett as if appreciative of human companionship.

There, too, were droves of sheep and bullocks coming in from the outlying pasture lands, and trains of tired immigrants, men and horses equally weary of their interminable journey.

All was quiet with him, save that a long inscription had appeared that morning upon the pedestal of the sundial.

Had this test been invented, there are hundreds of men now walking the earth who would long ago have paid the penalty of their crimes.

Without having any definite idea of the penalties I had incurred, it was clear to me that village boys could not go stalking about the country, ravaging the houses of gentlefolks and pitching into the studious youth of England, without laying themselves open to severe punishment.

His affections seemed to reanimate towards them all, and his interest in their welfare again became perceptible.

For a time the girl refused to notice; but her human curiosity presently began to manifest itself by hardly perceptible signs.

Anne was so impressed by the degree of their danger, that she could not excuse herself from trying to make it perceptible to her sister.

Rarely did that hour of the evening come, rarely did I wake at night, rarely did I look up at the moon, or stars, or watch the falling rain, or hear the wind, but I thought of his solitary figure toiling on, poor pilgrim, and recalled the words:.

They were trying vainly by whispered pleas and jerks at her skirt to make the old lady sit down on the brick wall.

Impotent rage quelled what little fear was left in her heart as she stood helpless while they plundered and stole and ruined.

He had died ignominiously and swiftly of pneumonia, following measles, without ever having gotten any closer to the Yankees than the camp in South Carolina.

Then the death of the colonel from pneumonia, and his own narrow escape from death: his damaged health: his deep restlessness: his leaving the army and coming back to England to be a working man again.

She might have been some two or three years younger than Wemmick, and I judged her to stand possessed of portable property.

In my heart I believed her to be right; and yet I took it rather ill, too, that she should be so positive on the point.

This man declares that he was not absent from his post for an instant, and he is positive that neither boy nor man could have gone that way unseen.

Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.

For I believed one of two other persons to have become possessed of it, and to have turned it to this cruel account.

Somehow or other, he had become possessed by an idea that there was something in this girl which could hardly be set forth in a tabular form.

It is not so impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have endeavoured in my case to do.

In the meantime Eustacia, left alone in her cottage at Alderworth, had become considerably depressed by the posture of affairs.

She writhed into some new posture constantly: stiffening her arms, twisting them before her face, as though to shut out from her eyes the little light there was, and drooping her head, as if it were heavy with insupportable recollections.

Again I saw that grim face look over the cliff, and I knew that it was the precursor of another stone.

And yet he was powerless to preserve his privacy; he was a hired man, and these people were his masters.

His fervid nature could not afford to relinquish one of these, though two of the three were as many as he could hope to preserve.

I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might take in the future.

Carnal appetite makes one seize a beakful of prey: then up, up again, out of the dense into the ethereal, from the wet into the dry.

Colonel Forster is a sensible man, and will keep her out of any real mischief; and she is luckily too poor to be an object of prey to anybody.

He had never experienced a greater relief than in hearing the sweet voice of the young lady as she begged her to be calm, and not allow herself to become the prey of such fearful fancies.

They purposed remaining in London only three days, prior to departing for some weeks to a distant part of the coast.

Her father asked him to do them the honour of taking his mutton with them, and Fanny had time for only one thrill of horror, before he declared himself prevented by a prior engagement.