1 She could not spell particularly well but she found that she could print letters when she tried.
2 Thus the spell was broken, and all who had been turned into stones awoke, and took their proper forms.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE QUEEN BEE 3 Well," said Joe, glancing up at the Dutch clock, "she's been on the Ram-page, this last spell, about five minutes, Pip.
4 'Why yes, I've took a short spell at The Willing Mind tonight,' said Mr. Peggotty.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE 5 The man, the human being, broke the spell at once.
6 Suellen was going to have another baby--she spelled this out so the children would not comprehend--and Ella had shown unwonted spirit in biting Suellen's oldest girl.
7 Over this document the family pored long, while Ona spelled out its contents.
8 We read and spelled together, wrote a little, picked flowers, sang, and listened to stories of the world beyond the hill.
9 Only an insane contortion of spelling could portray his lyric whine, his mangled consonants.
10 "He'll do," said Bildad, eyeing me, and then went on spelling away at his book in a mumbling tone quite audible.
11 They were like poetry but they were only sentences to learn the spelling from.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1 12 I saw at once that I was on the right track; phonetic spelling had again misled me.
13 She wrote to him formal, monotonous, and dry letters, to which she attached no importance herself, and in the rough copies of which the countess corrected her mistakes in spelling.
14 Then he changed the spelling, substituting a z for the s and adding de and the article le, still without obtaining the desired result.
15 Then there were reading exercises, and a spelling fight.