8th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

At length the reading of the indictment was ended.

The president called for the indictment, revised as we know, by the clever and implacable pen of Villefort.

First, they can decipher all initial letters into political meanings.

Ah, now you are trying to penetrate into the mysteries of Isis, in which I am not initiated.

I knew it by the names and the initials, and in it there was one little verse that seemed to call me.

First, they can decipher all initial letters into political meanings.

Ah, now you are trying to penetrate into the mysteries of Isis, in which I am not initiated.

I knew it by the names and the initials, and in it there was one little verse that seemed to call me.

The inspector asked if they had anything else to ask for.

Then, infusing all the humility he possessed into his eyes and voice, he addressed the inspector, and sought to inspire him with pity.

The soldiers interposed their bayonets, for they thought that he was about to attack the inspector, and the latter recoiled two or three steps.

Possibly; but it is not the exterior I care for, it is the interior.

He was leaning against the ledge of an open lattice, but not looking out: his face was turned to the interior gloom.

In wandering round the shattered walls and through the devastated interior, I gathered evidence that the calamity was not of late occurrence.

The rain continued the whole evening without intermission; Jane certainly could not come back.

But they were entirely ignorant of what had passed; and their raptures continued, with little intermission, to the very day of Lydia's leaving home.

There was a kind of solemnity in this interrogation.

And, to give more weight to his protestation, Caderousse advanced another step towards the abbe, who remained motionless in his place, as calm as ever, and pursuing his interrogation.

She evidently interrogated him by her look.

I feared nothing but interruption, and that came too soon.

Try to stand upright, and let the lovers make love without interruption.

There was scarcely an interruption from any one to break the charm of its flow.

He rang, and despatched an invitation to Mrs. Fairfax, who soon arrived, knitting-basket in hand.

No one could resist her persuasive nods, or the fragrant invitation issuing from the nose of the coffee pot.

No scheme could have been more agreeable to Elizabeth, and her acceptance of the invitation was most ready and grateful.

Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Brethren, execute upon him the judgment written.

Sense would resist delirium: judgment would warn passion.

I cannot do justice to his kindness.

For Mr. Bhaer talked well in this genial atmosphere, and did himself justice.

From the wild stringy root of human uprightness, she has reared a due sense of the Divine justice.

Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard.

He drifted listlessly down the street and found Jim Hollis acting as judge in a juvenile court that was trying a cat for murder, in the presence of her victim, a bird.

The only person who offered enough to make it worth her while to try juvenile literature was a worthy gentleman who felt it his mission to convert all the world to his particular belief.

In a while, I distinguished steps coming up the road, and the light of a lantern glimmered through the gate.

A monstrous big lumber-raft was about a mile up stream, coming along down, with a lantern in the middle of it.

The doctor put the lantern at the head of the grave and came and sat down with his back against one of the elm trees.

The signatures were perfectly legal.

I want you to read that, please, and tell me if it is legal and right.

I have heard that when a wife deserts her husband's house, as I am doing now, he is legally freed from all obligations towards her.

They belong no doubt to the lieutenant who lives over the way.

I fancied that I was the lieutenant over there: and yet the thing was not very much to my taste after all.

The first time I saw him he appeared to me like an old lieutenant who had grown mouldy under his epaulets.

Three or four Palikares fell with their bodies literally ploughed with wounds.

And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth.

I assure you it would be quite impossible for me to work with him; I literally feel physically ill when I am in the company of such people.

Your logic is most powerful, Valentine, but say what you will, I can never renounce the sentiment which has instinctively taken possession of my mind.

Hannah hated rain as much as a cat does so she made no trouble, and they rolled away in the luxurious close carriage, feeling very festive and elegant.

They passed through two rooms, furnished in a luxurious manner they had not expected to see under the roof of Signor Pastrini, and were shown into an elegantly fitted-up drawing-room.

I let him enjoy the luxury unannoyed; and after sucking out his last wreath, and heaving a profound sigh, he got up, and departed as solemnly as he came.

Like all upstarts, he had had recourse to a great deal of haughtiness to maintain his position.

He looked at me long and hard: I turned my eyes from him, fixed them on the fire, and tried to assume and maintain a quiet, collected aspect.

However, I shall have no occasion to work, for the little sum of money buried by you, and which I found in the place you mentioned, will be sufficient to maintain me.

This maneuver she repeated several times, to the great amusement of a black-eyed young gentleman lounging in the window of a building opposite.

The learning of this people is very defective, consisting only in morality, history, poetry, and mathematics, wherein they must be allowed to excel.

The knowledge I had in mathematics, gave me great assistance in acquiring their phraseology, which depended much upon that science, and music; and in the latter I was not unskilled.

The servants cut our bread into cones, cylinders, parallelograms, and several other mathematical figures.

He pines for kindness, as well as love; and a kind word from you would be his best medicine.

This afternoon he did not give any medicine or leave any new orders and he was spared any disagreeable scenes.

All this I was told; for, while the operation was performing, I lay in a profound sleep, by the force of that soporiferous medicine infused into my liquor.

That night a memorable event occurred, due, no doubt, to the imprudence of some servant who had neglected to extinguish the lights.

Tom bent all his energies to the memorizing of five verses, and he chose part of the Sermon on the Mount, because he could find no verses that were shorter.

Either you have a very bad memory or you know very little of business.

If my memory serves me, you once thought it your duty to make a rich match.

I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory.

In the court showing his merchandise, was a tradesman who had been admitted with the same precautions.

Why, as for that, I could only know what I was told respecting the merchandise with which the vessel was laden.

The Phoenicians stayed a whole year till they had loaded their ship with much precious merchandise, and then, when they had got freight enough, they sent to tell the woman.

I could see distinctly the limbs of these vermin with my naked eye, much better than those of a European louse through a microscope, and their snouts with which they rooted like swine.

Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do.

Poor Jo looked abashed, and silently chafed the end of her nose with the stiff handkerchief, as if performing a penance for her misdemeanors.

It struck beneath my ear, and stopped the sentence I was uttering; but, pulling it out, I sprang to the door and delivered another; which I hope went a little deeper than his missile.

With me, then, it seems, you cannot go: but if you are sincere in your offer, I will, while in town, speak to a married missionary, whose wife needs a coadjutor.

He accounted it a pity that so fine and talented a young man should have formed the design of going out as a missionary; it was quite throwing a valuable life away.

The king said, take it all around, it laid over any day he'd ever put in in the missionarying line.