7th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

Now, as soon as he beheld her, his first precaution was to take a sweeping survey of the house-front.

I say the two, because Cardinal Rospigliosi, who had not taken any precaution, was completely despoiled.

And issuing from my asylum with precaution, I sought a back-stairs which conducted directly to the kitchen.

She is a capital nurse, and you may trust the precious babies to her while you do more housework.

And no time is so beautiful and precious to parents as the first years of the little lives given to them to train.

Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for.

I was a precocious actress in her eyes; she sincerely looked on me as a compound of virulent passions, mean spirit, and dangerous duplicity.

I flatter myself I'm a 'gentleman growed' as Peggotty said of David, and when you see Amy, you'll find her rather a precocious infant, said Laurie, looking amused at her maternal air.

But so it is; a woman will often, from mere wilfulness, prefer that which is dangerous to that which is safe.

Believe me, there are only the two plans I have proposed to you; forgive my vanity, and tell me which you prefer.

I am to have my meals with the children, if I prefer it to the great table, and for the present I do, for I am bashful, though no one will believe it.

After all, it is preferable to be hated than loved by him.

I preferred to stay at home and write letters.

It was all right: at present I decidedly preferred these fierce favours to anything more tender.

Madame de Villefort shuddered at the sight of that cold countenance, that resolute tone, and the awfully strange preliminaries.

Danglars; to-day all preliminaries will be arranged at my father's, and to-morrow, or next day at latest, the wedding festival here at La Reserve.

My journeys became more and more extensive and more productive.

Their visits to Mrs. Phillips were now productive of the most interesting intelligence.

But nature, it seems, has not been so expert a school-mistress; and these politer pleasures are entirely the productions of art and reason on our side of the globe.

It stood prominent six feet, and could not be less than sixteen in circumference.

Scarcely less prominent was an ample cushioned easy-chair near the head of the bed, also white, with a footstool before it; and looking, as I thought, like a pale throne.

As this is the most prominent, and some say the most attractive table of all, and they are the chief getters-up of the fair, it is thought best for them to take this place.

And so nice of Annie Moffat not to forget her promise.

He shall not shelter himself behind a promise from you softhearted girls.

In came Amy, quite calm and delightfully cordial to the one guest who had kept her promise.

His excellency did not charge me to purchase this house.

But I would really advise you to make your purchase in that neighbourhood, and take Pemberley for a kind of model.

Her beauty, her pink cheeks and golden curls, seemed to give delight to all who looked at her, and to purchase indemnity for every fault.

Come as soon as you can on receipt of this.

And Monte Cristo placed the bonds in his pocket with one hand, while with the other he held out the receipt to Danglars.

He had a right, of course, to do as he pleased: and yet a momentary damp is cast on the spirits by the receipt of such news.

I resumed my song; not having forgotten her recent behaviour.

The recent event formed the theme of conversation throughout all Paris.

The Englishman turned down his shirt-collar, and showed a scar, whose redness proved it to be a recent one.

When parties in a state are violent, he offered a wonderful contrivance to reconcile them.

I cannot be so easily reconciled to myself.

Well, propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.

It is, if I may take an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; for every wrench of agony return a wrench: reduce him to my level.

I had quite lost my stomach, and was almost reduced to a skeleton.

Wickham of course wanted more than he could get; but at length was reduced to be reasonable.

Everything was here arranged in perfect order; each register had its number, each file of papers its place.

Thanks," said the latter, closing the register with a slam, "I have all I want; now it is for me to perform my promise.

Elizabeth honestly and heartily expressed her delight in the prospect of their relationship.

I sought in her countenance and features a likeness to Mr. Rochester, but found none: no trait, no turn of expression announced relationship.

It was not known that Wickham had a single relationship with whom he kept up any connection, and it was certain that he had no near one living.

Mrs. March sighed, and Jo looked up with an air of relief.

And then, to my great relief, Mr. Henry Lynn summoned them to the other side of the room, to settle some point about the deferred excursion to Hay Common.

It seemed as if, could I but go back to the idea which had last entered my mind as I stood at the window, some inventive suggestion would rise for my relief.

He again paused: there seemed a reluctance to continue.

Finally he strode home reluctantly, with his poor head full of visions.

Then he pressed the hand the baroness reluctantly gave him, and led her respectfully back to the door.

The former Dantes proposed to augment, the latter to remedy.

This malady admits but of one remedy; I will tell you what that is.

And the only remedy they found was, to set him to hard work, after which he would infallibly come to himself.

The former Dantes proposed to augment, the latter to remedy.

This malady admits but of one remedy; I will tell you what that is.

And the only remedy they found was, to set him to hard work, after which he would infallibly come to himself.

Her mind seemed wholly taken up with reminiscences of past gaiety, and aspirations after dissipations to come.

The lobster was instantly surrounded by a halo of pleasing reminiscences, and curiosity about 'the charming young ladies' diverted his mind from the comical mishap.'

Aunt Polly felt a sudden pang of remorse.

For the assassination itself I had never felt any remorse.

I began to experience remorse, repentance; the wish for reconcilement to my Maker.

In the last case I must wait for daylight to renew my search.

August rolled by in unceasing efforts on the part of Morrel to renew his credit or revive the old.

I could not be certain of the reality till I had seen Mr. Rochester again, and heard him renew his words of love and promise.

I cried out that he would frighten the child into fits, and ran to rescue him.

Realizing this, Villefort came to the rescue of the crest-fallen minister, instead of aiding to crush him.

I considered it best to depart without seeing Mr. Heathcliff, and bring a rescue for my young lady from the Grange.

She had left Thornfield Hall in the night; every research after her course had been vain: the country had been scoured far and wide; no vestige of information could be gathered respecting her.

The lads searched and researched this place, but in vain.

Oh, count, you could assist me perhaps in researches which have been, up to the present, fruitless.

I have no such injuries to resent.

But as I was not in a condition to resent injuries, so upon mature thoughts I began to doubt whether I was injured or no.

In spite of various very natural temptations to resent and retaliate, Amy adhered to her resolution all the next day, bent on conquering her enemy by kindness.

He meant to resign his commission immediately; and as to his future situation, he could conjecture very little about it.

Dantes gazed on the man who could thus philosophically resign hopes so long and ardently nourished with an astonishment mingled with admiration.

No plan offered itself: the very exhibition of any desire to keep him would have rendered the claimant more peremptory: there was nothing left but to resign him.

Time brought resignation, and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

Morrel raised his two hands to heaven with an expression of resignation and sublime gratitude.

You are a woman at once full of spirit and resignation; I have become simple in my tastes, and am without passion, I hope.

Many a man has been able to retrieve his character, if he has openly confessed his fault and taken his punishment.

I settled his doubts, by suddenly retrieving my gravity and desiring him to walk away, for I came to see Linton, not him.

Her astonishment, as she reflected on what had passed, was increased by every review of it.

It was not till after I had withdrawn to my own chamber for the night, that I steadily reviewed the tale Mr. Rochester had told me.

Dantes reviewed his past life with composure, and, looking forward with terror to his future existence, chose that middle line that seemed to afford him a refuge.

There were some roughly printed letters on it and a sort of picture.

Here no wind beats roughly, and neither rain nor snow can fall; but it abides in everlasting sunshine and in a great peacefulness of light, wherein the blessed gods are illumined for ever and ever.

Only a rough sketch of Laurie taming a horse.

She bent very close to them and sniffed the fresh scent of the damp earth.

Witches have red eyes, and cannot see far, but they have a keen scent like the beasts, and are aware when human beings draw near.

The next minute she was in the room and had run across to his bed, bringing with her a waft of fresh air full of the scent of the morning.

He darted upon it as an eagle would seize upon its prey.

Then they turned upon him and tried to seize him; but he drew his sword.

I like her too well, my dear Heathcliff, to let you absolutely seize and devour her up.

They are trash, and will soon be worse trash if I go on, for each is more sensational than the last.

Elizabeth, with a triumphant sensation, looked towards his friend.

She took to writing sensation stories, for in those dark ages, even all-perfect America read rubbish.

You are too sensitive about things.

Yet it was a hard time for sensitive, high-spirited Jo, who meant so well and had apparently done so ill.

Her spirit was high, though not rough, and qualified by a heart sensitive and lively to excess in its affections.