8th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

But the principal difficulty was to raise and place me in this vehicle.

Bingley was the principal spokesman, and Miss Bennet the principal object.

He was fond of the country and of books; and from these tastes had arisen his principal enjoyments.

No principle of either would be violated by my marriage with Mr. Darcy.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

To have yielded then would have been an error of principle; to have yielded now would have been an error of judgment.

But he does wrong to use his privilege.

No one admitted to the privilege of hearing you can think anything wanting.

Do not be afraid of my running into any excess, of my encroaching on your privilege of universal good-will.

It really did look like a procession.

They were soon ready, and the procession set out.

Now we shall have to wait for that procession to pass.

For a year he had held this rank, and expected promotion on the first vacancy.

Now we discover our error; a title and promotion attach you to the government we wish to overturn.

Well, Albert, this money, which was formerly designed to promote the comfort and tranquillity of the woman I adored, may now, through strange and painful circumstances, be devoted to the same purpose.

Mr. Kenneth was perplexed to pronounce of what disorder the master died.

I am going down there to pronounce the sentence of death against a murderer.

His name, or rather a plaintive voice which essayed to pronounce his name, reached him.

and there Jo sighed, as if the prospect was not inviting.

I came down as soon as I thought there was a prospect of breakfast.

You have a sweet room here, Mr. Bingley, and a charming prospect over the gravel walk.

The housekeeper packed them up a provision of bread, wine, and sweet meats fit for the sons of princes.

Everything in camp was drenched, the campfire as well; for they were but heedless lads, like their generation, and had made no provision against rain.

I lay all night in the cave where I had lodged my provisions.

Mr. Darcy was punctual in his return, and as Lydia informed you, attended the wedding.

This is all very provoking to Miss Scatcherd, who is naturally neat, punctual, and particular.

Mr. Collins was punctual to his time, and was received with great politeness by the whole family.

If our young friend studied punctuation, it.

She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with.

In one of my fobs there was a silver watch, and in the other a small quantity of gold in a purse.

We stayed with Circe for a whole twelvemonth feasting upon an untold quantity both of meat and wine.

Breakfast-time came at last, and this morning the porridge was not burnt; the quality was eatable, the quantity small.

I am glad to be reassured on that point.

It was Villefort who seemed to entreat, and the prisoner who reassured him.

You have done well to speak to me, and ask for my assistance, for I was about to form another plan, and leave you; but your age reassures me.

But no such recollection befriended her.

Elizabeth smiled at the recollection of all that she had heard of its inhabitants.

The recollection of about three days and nights succeeding this is very dim in my mind.

She has nothing, in short, to recommend her, but being an excellent walker.

What she was, and where she was born, he never informed us: probably, she had neither money nor name to recommend her, or he would scarcely have kept the union from his father.

While they were dressing, he came two or three times to their different doors, to recommend their being quick, as Lady Catherine very much objected to be kept waiting for her dinner.

But first they resolved to sell the goods the ship, and then go to Madagascar for recruits, several among them having died since my confinement.

Andrea sketched two windows in the room, which formed an angle on the plan, and appeared as a small square added to the rectangle of the bedroom.

It would be ridiculous in me to regulate my conduct by such caprices.

Two hours she devoted to her diary; two to working by herself in the kitchen-garden; and one to the regulation of her accounts.

I landed here, regulated the affairs of the vessel, and hastened to visit my affianced bride, whom I found more lovely than ever.

He told me that he was anxious to restore you to the position which you had lost, and that he would seek your father until he found him.

I rely implicitly on His power, and confide wholly in His goodness: I count the hours till that eventful one arrives which shall restore me to Him, reveal Him to me.

Perhaps I am; but one thing I have resolved on, and that is, to stop at nothing to restore a poor devil to liberty, who has got into this scrape solely from having served me.

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

Well, sir, the rupture of a blood-vessel on the lobe of the brain has destroyed all this, not in a day, not in an hour, but in a second.

But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves.

But he heeded not my sacrifice, and only thought how he might destroy both my ships and my comrades.

Now the people of Pylos were gathered on the sea shore to offer sacrifice of black bulls to Neptune lord of the Earthquake.

Lucien Debray is an old friend of ours, and private secretary to the Minister of the Interior.

A conversation between the author and a principal secretary, concerning the affairs of that empire.

He hastened to open the secretary, and found the pocket-book in the drawer, and in it the letter of credit.

Entering a portal, fastened only by a latch, I stood amidst a space of enclosed ground, from which the wood swept away in a semicircle.

The servants were called in, the dining-room tables wheeled away, the lights otherwise disposed, the chairs placed in a semicircle opposite the arch.

I desired that the senate of Rome might appear before me, in one large chamber, and an assembly of somewhat a later age in counterview, in another.

Here I discovered the true causes of many great events that have surprised the world; how a whore can govern the back-stairs, the back-stairs a council, and the council a senate.

Dickon stood up on the grass and slowly went through a carefully practical but simple series of muscle exercises.

A cry more prolonged than the others and ending in a series of groans effectually roused me from my drowsy lethargy.

I told him in a new series of whispers, that he might as well buy me a gold gown and a silver bonnet at once: I should certainly never venture to wear his choice.

Stop, Rank; this is sheer madness.

A poor unfortunate tramp has come begging about the house for sheer want.

She ran out of the room, and Mary stood by the fire and twisted her thin little hands together with sheer pleasure.

I doubted I had taken a step which sank instead of raising me in the scale of social existence.

de Villefort moved in the first Parisian circles, less owing to his social position than to his personal merit.

His rusty coat had a social air, and the baggy pockets plainly proved that little hands often went in empty and came out full.

"There," said the sentinel, pointing over his shoulder to a spacious crypt, hollowed out of the rock, the lights from which shone into the passage through the large arched openings.

I regarded her, of course, with special interest.

You must and shall be married by a special licence.

He was therefore honourably received, and a special dwelling was assigned him.

This I have since often known to have been taken with success, and do here freely recommend it to my countrymen for the public good, as an admirable specific against all diseases produced by repletion.

It was a terrible spectacle: I witnessed it myself.

But everybody was talking, and intent upon the grisly spectacle before them.

And yet the spectacle of desolation I had just left prepared me in a measure for a tale of misery.

The two, to a cool spectator, made a strange and fearful picture.

eager spectators gathered round the count, demanding.

Mr. Rochester then turned to the spectators: he looked at them with a smile both acrid and desolate.