8th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

It will soon be no more than a sacrifice consumed.

He was one of those English tourists who consume a large fortune in travelling.

Boys of his own size pretended not to know he had been away at all; but they were consuming with envy, nevertheless.

The continent, as far as it is subject to the monarch of the flying island, passes under the general name of Balnibarbi; and the metropolis, as I said before, is called Lagado.

I'm going to write you a regular volume, for I've got heaps to tell, though I'm not a fine young lady traveling on the continent.

You hear now how I contradict myself.

If it be not so, let Mr. Darcy contradict it.

He did not contradict me; perhaps he had fallen into a doze.

She would not betray her trust, I suppose, without bribery and corruption, for she really did know where her friend was to be found.

Lap, in the old obsolete language, signifies high; and untuh, a governor; from which they say, by corruption, was derived Laputa, from Lapuntuh.

But when a creature pretending to reason could be capable of such enormities, he dreaded lest the corruption of that faculty might be worse than brutality itself.

Inquiries were made as to how it got there; I was obliged to confess, and in recompense for my cowardice and inhumanity was sent out of the house.

Sometimes I amuse myself by delivering some bandit or criminal from the bonds of the law.

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

Two men, seated on the movable plank on which the victim is laid, were eating their breakfasts, while waiting for the criminal.

It was a curious laugh; distinct, formal, mirthless.

And I am tremendously curious to see what you are going to surprise me with.

By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.

I shall expect your clear decision when I return this day fortnight.

Which decision proved that her second tumble down the beanstalk had done her some good.

And he said it with such decision Ben Weatherstaff looked him over, up and down, down and up.

The heat of the day had gradually decreased, and a light breeze arose, seeming like the respiration of nature on awakening from the burning siesta of the south.

This postscript decreased greatly the young girl's happiness.

Your Royal Highness must be improving considerably," said the shadow, "I know your complaint is, that you see too clearly, but it has decreased, you are cured.

My deduction is," replied Villefort, "that my father, led away by his passions, has committed some fault unknown to human justice, but marked by the justice of God.

You shall not defend her, though it is Charlotte Lucas.

Beth mourned as for a departed kitten, and Meg refused to defend her pet.

You have been charged with falsehood; defend yourself to me as well as you can.

And he proceeded to inform us that his departure from England was now definitively fixed for the ensuing year.

My work, which had appeared so vague, so hopelessly diffuse, condensed itself as he proceeded, and assumed a definite form under his shaping hand.

Moreover, before I definitively resolve on quitting England, I will know for certain whether I cannot be of greater use by remaining in it than by leaving it.

I too have some to see and ask after in England, before I depart for ever.

The author has notice given him by his master, that he must depart from the country.

After she had seen him mount his horse and depart, she was about to close the door, but I ran up to her.

Her home and her housekeeping, her parish and her poultry, and all their dependent concerns, had not yet lost their charms.

A great deal of good management, depend upon it.

Your father would depend on your resolution and good conduct, I am sure.

You have deprived the best years of his life of that independence which was no less his due than his desert.

No, I want to live; I shall struggle to the very last; I will yet win back the happiness of which I have been deprived.

By her next speech, Jo deprived herself of several years of pleasure, and received a timely lesson in the art of holding her tongue.

The solicitor addressed me as he descended the stair.

Hindley descended more leisurely, sobered and abashed.

He descended the one step, and advanced slowly and gropingly towards the grass-plat.

All I see has made me thankful, not despondent.

Your habitual expression in those days, Jane, was a thoughtful look; not despondent, for you were not sickly; but not buoyant, for you had little hope, and no actual pleasure.

The fresh winds blew away desponding doubts, delusive fancies, and moody mists.

Dantes dug away the earth carefully, and detected, or fancied he detected, the ingenious artifice.

And often, from the side of my eye, I could detect her raising a hand, and brushing something off her cheek.

This time he thought he could detect colicky symptoms, and he began to encourage them with considerable hope.

It was about a foot long, and four inches in diameter.

At the end of an hour the stone was extricated from the wall, leaving a cavity a foot and a half in diameter.

It is hooped round with a hollow cylinder of adamant, four feet yards in diameter, placed horizontally, and supported by eight adamantine feet, each six yards high.

I hope the world will not call me cowardly for acting as my conscience dictated.

I extended my hand, and was about to pledge myself by any promise he would dictate, but he stopped me.

You must therefore allow me to follow the dictates of my conscience on this occasion, which leads me to perform what I look on as a point of duty.

I hope the world will not call me cowardly for acting as my conscience dictated.

I extended my hand, and was about to pledge myself by any promise he would dictate, but he stopped me.

You must therefore allow me to follow the dictates of my conscience on this occasion, which leads me to perform what I look on as a point of duty.

I am quite sorry, Lizzy, that you should be forced to have that disagreeable man all to yourself.

From what he said of Miss Darcy I was thoroughly prepared to see a proud, reserved, disagreeable girl.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again.

I interpreted it as a warning of disaster.

The master frowned, and this completed the disaster.

But the novel disaster quenched her courage for a time, for public opinion is a giant which has frightened stouter-hearted Jacks on bigger beanstalks than hers.

You know, I suppose, that I have got my dismissal.

They came therefore to a decision, betook themselves in a body to the king, and begged for their dismissal.

But he did not venture to give him his dismissal, for he dreaded lest he should strike him and all his people dead, and place himself on the royal throne.

Weatherstaff," he said, "that is disrespectful.

Then he gave a low, distinct whistle.

The lightning showed her very distinct.

It was a curious laugh; distinct, formal, mirthless.

It will save me a world of trouble and economy.

Lately I have been taking stock of my internal economy.

When first Mr. Bennet had married, economy was held to be perfectly useless, for, of course, they were to have a son.

Upon the eighth day he discerned a small vessel under full sail approaching Monte Cristo.

"Well, never mind," answered Caderousse, pouring out a glass of wine for Fernand, and filling his own for the eighth or ninth time, while Danglars had merely sipped his.

Mine is so elastic, it never seems full now, and I used to be quite contented with my family.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

His thoughts were so elastic, his heart so tender; and involuntarily he picked one of the nearest flowers.

They all saw the embarrassment and the emotion.

They were too much absorbed in their mutual joy to suffer embarrassment.

Somewhat daunted by this reception, Jo hesitated on the threshold, murmuring in much embarrassment.

I dressed, then, to be ready for emergencies.

Yes, and in emergencies like that it is lucky to have the money.

But the glass-cutter was a prudent man who had provided for all emergencies.

They all saw the embarrassment and the emotion.

I saw his solemn eye melt with sudden fire, and flicker with resistless emotion.

She slipped her fork to the floor, and hastily dived under the cloth to conceal her emotion.

"Above us all, sir," was Monte Cristo's response, in a tone and with an emphasis so deep that Villefort involuntarily shuddered.

He said this, in his peculiar, subdued, yet emphatic voice; looking, when he had ceased speaking, not at me, but at the setting sun, at which I looked too.

Meg liked his quiet manners and considered him a walking encyclopedia of useful knowledge.

The sentence is passed, and, in a few hours, will be executed; it must be so, and I will not endeavor to prevent it.

Examine the past and the present, and endeavor to dive into futurity, and then say whether I am not a divine instrument.

Morrel, subdued by the extraordinary ascendancy Monte Cristo exercised over everything around him, did not endeavor to resist it.

The patron was so strict that this was the first time they had ever seen him give up an enterprise, or even delay in its execution.

Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome superabundance of that sort of time which is not money.

Edmond, being consulted, was of opinion that the island afforded every possible security, and that great enterprises to be well done should be done quickly.

The inmates were asleep, but it was a sleep that was set on a hair-trigger, on account of the exciting episode of the night.

The races, like the moccoli, are one of the episodes peculiar to the last days of the Carnival.

Such trifles do escape the editorial mind, it is said.

I will give you this certain token which cannot escape your notice.

Never mind what John said, or what a very narrow escape the little bonnet had from utter ruin.

I came to offer myself as escort to your mother.

He wants an escort and wishes to have the matter settled.

Beth played her gayest march, Amy threw open the door, and Meg enacted escort with great dignity.