8th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

"Don't let that young giant come near me, he worries me worse than mosquitoes," whispered the old lady to Amy, as the rooms filled and Laurie's black head towered above the rest.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive; only three miles.

If he had another motive, I am sure it would never disgrace him.

No motive can excuse the unjust and ungenerous part you acted there.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive; only three miles.

If he had another motive, I am sure it would never disgrace him.

No motive can excuse the unjust and ungenerous part you acted there.

Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction.

He was quite frightened, and he tried to repeat the Lord's Prayer; but all he could do, he was only able to remember the multiplication table.

murmur of amazement went through the throng, for.

The laugh was repeated in its low, syllabic tone, and terminated in an odd murmur.

The solo over, a duet followed, and then a glee: a joyous conversational murmur filled up the intervals.

Some years after I had broken with the mother, she abandoned her child, and ran away to Italy with a musician or singer.

I was no vocalist myself, and, in his fastidious judgment, no musician, either; but I delighted in listening when the performance was good.

Laurie comes naturally by his love of music, for he is like his mother, and I dare say his grandfather fears that he may want to be a musician.

Questions and answers followed in a nonchalant manner that made Dantes indignant, for he felt that all the world should have for the poor abbe a love and respect equal to his own.

A certain superciliousness of look, coolness of manner, nonchalance of tone, express fully their sentiments on the point, without committing them by any positive rudeness in word or deed.

Already rich, he held a high official situation, though only twenty-seven.

The two ladies entered the drawing-room with that sort of official stiffness which preludes a formal communication.

The keeper spoke for a moment with an official, then opened the iron gates and conducted Andrea to a room on the first floor.

Meanwhile the operation of putting the body in the sack was going on.

The second operation was as successful as the first, The Young Amelia was in luck.

The operation was performed amidst the fiercest yells and the most convulsive plunges.

I have no means of forming an opinion about that.

Yes, the general opinion seems to be that it is necessary.

Have respect, therefore, to your own consciences and to public opinion.

Her appearance always acted as a damper to the curiosity raised by her oral oddities: hard-featured and staid, she had no point to which interest could attach.

It is thus that human weakness fails, from its debilitated and imperfect organs.

I suppose I have a considerable organ of veneration, for I retain yet the sense of admiring awe with which my eyes traced her steps.

This promise of an impotent old man was so strange that, instead of being the result of the power of his will, it might emanate from enfeebled organs.

But he, like public rumor, lived on this reputation for wealth; his palace was my paradise.

John should find home a paradise, he should always see a smiling face, should fare sumptuously every day, and never know the loss of a button.

Miserable I am, and must be for a time; for the catastrophe which drove me from a house I had found a paradise was of a strange and direful nature.

It was brought parallel to me, as I lay.

The imperfections of his mind run parallel with those of his body, being a composition of spleen, dullness, ignorance, caprice, sensuality, and pride.

This parallel disturbed his usual politeness, the philosophy he witnessed appalled him, he muttered a few words of general civility and ran down-stairs.

You know poisons become remedies in certain diseases, of which paralysis is one.

Faria sat up to receive him, avoiding all gestures in order that he might conceal from the governor the paralysis that had already half stricken him with death.

Had he remained with you, his life must have become a hateful burden, nor would he have participated in your griefs.

"I see that you participate in a prevalent error," said Madame Danglars.

Two windows only of the pavilion faced the street; three other windows looked into the court, and two at the back into the garden.

In this valley were magnificent gardens planted by Hassen-ben-Sabah, and in these gardens isolated pavilions.

He had reserved the house and half the garden, and building a wall between the garden and the workshops, had let them upon lease with the pavilions at the bottom of the garden.

The pedestrians ranged themselves against the walls; then the trampling of horses and the clashing of steel were heard.

The moment he read it, he packed his knapsack, bade adieu to his fellow pedestrians, and was off to keep his promise, with a heart full of joy and sorrow, hope and suspense.

The pendulum of the great clock went to and fro, and the hands turned, and everything in the room became still older; but they did not observe it.

All the little duties were faithfully done each day, and many of her sisters' also, for they were forgetful, and the house seemed like a clock whose pendulum was gone a-visiting.

A large vase of Japan porcelain, filled with flowers that loaded the air with their perfume, stood in the salon.

I hear a nightingale warbling in a wood half a mile off; no moving form is visible, no coming step audible; but that perfume increases: I must flee.

A delicious zephyr played along the coasts of the Mediterranean, and wafted from shore to shore the sweet perfume of plants, mingled with the fresh smell of the sea.

This answer was too clear to permit of any mistake as to his sentiments.

Now he made an effort to rest his head on my shoulder, but I would not permit it.

I soon withdrew, for I had talked as much, and sat up as long, as my present strength would permit.

An hour afterwards a physician declared they were both poisoned through eating mushrooms.

Moreover, every one in the whole country is a skilled physician, for they are of the race of Paeeon.

It glistened with such extraordinary joy, so rich and full of thought, that the physician was struck.

The picturesque would be spoilt by admitting a fourth.

Luigi wore the very picturesque garb of the Roman peasant at holiday time.

It was a lovely drive, along winding roads rich in the picturesque scenes that delight beauty-loving eyes.

Make a good, popular book, and get as much money as you can.

The popular banker found that it answered better than count.

Not to appear to disgrace his family, to degenerate from the popular qualities, or lose the influence of the Pemberley House, is a powerful motive.

I shall only preserve it--keep it in my possession.

Life, however, was yet in my possession, with all its requirements, and pains, and responsibilities.

The present Mr. Rochester has not been very long in possession of the property; only about nine years.

Laurie backed precipitately into a corner, and put his hands behind him with an imploring gesture.

Amy, who was fond of delicate fare, took a heaping spoonful, choked, hid her face in her napkin, and left the table precipitately.

and having delivered her defiance all on one breath, Meg cast away her pinafore and precipitately left the field to bemoan herself in her own room.

The next day was as fine as its predecessor: it was devoted by the party to an excursion to some site in the neighbourhood.

and his predecessors; and he saw that the complement was not half empty.

This prediction was but half fulfilled: I did not indeed dream of sorrow, but as little did I dream of joy; for I never slept at all.

She entered, transformed as her guardian had predicted.

I predict from all this an avalanche of dinners and routs.

During the evident preoccupation of Madame de Villefort, Monte Cristo scrutinized the features and appearance of the boy she kept folded in her arms, lavishing on him the most tender endearments.

I shall only preserve it--keep it in my possession.

And therefore I have but two methods to preserve my cow.

It is surprising how well you preserve your teeth, Miss, said the collar.