1st Grade Sight Words With Example

It was the end of September; the wind blew violently.

She blew upon us young ones; and all died except we two.

It began to snow, a cold wind blew and roared as though it were seeking a bride.

They were covered with clay and candle-grease.

Tom went first, cutting rude steps in the clay hill as he descended.

They sat down, and Tom fastened his candle to the wall in front of them with some clay.

She could not spell particularly well but she found that she could print letters when she tried.

Thus the spell was broken, and all who had been turned into stones awoke, and took their proper forms.

Then there were reading exercises, and a spelling fight.

So she packed her small trunk and made the journey.

Both sexes were about equally represented in the packed audience.

When we got to the house the street in front of it was packed, and the three girls was standing in the door.

At midnight they arrived at the gate of a beautiful park.

The house is lonely, and the park is lonely, and the gardens are lonely.

She walked round and round the gardens and wandered about the paths in the park.

I could push his carriage well enough.

I thought perhaps you could push his carriage.

They began to push her about for her own good.

His shirt collar was securely sewed.

And told him how to keep a journal on the shirt with his blood, and all that.

When we got up-stairs to his room he got me a coarse shirt and a roundabout and pants of his, and I put them on.

But, try what she would, she could not get the pitch off and it stuck to her as long as she lived.

One evening a fearful tempest arose, it thundered and lightened, and the rain poured down from the sky in torrents: besides, it was as dark as pitch.

Mother Holle led her, as she had led her sister, to the broad gateway; but as she was passing through, instead of the shower of gold, a great bucketful of pitch came pouring over her.

He knelt down by the hole and broke the pot from the mould.

Ben Weatherstaff brought the rose in its pot from the greenhouse.

And she took the little boy and cut him up, made him into puddings, and put him in the pot.

Before I die I must not forget that I have my executioners to punish, and perhaps, too, who knows, some friends to reward.

de Morcerf in Epirus, for guilty as I knew he was, I thought you had no right to punish him; but I have since learned that you had that right.

He did all he could to soothe her, and she at last seemed to be appeased; but she was not so in truth, and was only thinking how she should punish him.

The next morning Franz woke first, and instantly rang the bell.

The people woke up more and more, and sung louder and louder; and towards the end some begun to groan, and some begun to shout.

About broad day in the morning the king and the duke come up in the garret and woke me up, and I see by their look that there was trouble.

Lovely as the Greek girls of Cyprus or Chios, Mercedes boasted the same bright flashing eyes of jet, and ripe, round, coral lips.

These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone.

I found plenty strawberries, ripe and prime; and green summer grapes, and green razberries; and the green blackberries was just beginning to show.

Albert had fastened the faded bunch of violets to his button-hole.

The countess left the arm of Monte Cristo, and gathered a bunch of Muscatel grapes.

Albert, as he took off his dress, carefully preserved the bunch of violets; it was his token reserved for the morrow.

Den I was gwyne to swim to de raf agin when dey was gone.

We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness.

I was now safe, for I could swim along the ditch without being seen, and I reached the canal in safety.

The woods was full of teams and wagons, hitched everywheres, feeding out of the wagon-troughs and stomping to keep off the flies.

The little black dog, as light as a soap-bubble, jumps up on his hind legs to try to get into the swing.

The swing moves, and the bubbles float in charming changing colors: the last is still hanging to the end of the pipe, and rocks in the breeze.

He had been standing on the moor listening to a skylark and watching him swing higher and higher into the sky until he was only a speck in the heights of blue.

Mary had seen carved ivory in India and she knew all about elephants.

They went to the Indian room and amused themselves with the ivory elephants.

There is a little Indian room where there is a cabinet full of ivory elephants.

At the same moment a violent crash was heard, and cries of distress.

Every little while some giant tree yielded the fight and fell crashing through the younger growth; and the unflagging thunderpeals came now in ear-splitting explosive bursts, keen and sharp, and unspeakably appalling.

Another fierce glare lit up the forest and an instant crash followed that seemed to rend the treetops right over the boys' heads.

Hans takes the calf, puts it on his head, and the calf kicks his face.

The poor animal kicked; the girl laughed, and pulled Gerda into bed with her.

Then, the night you're ready, fetch the leg a kick, down she goes; slip off your chain, and there you are.

I can dig and pull up weeds, and do whatever you tell me.

Ben Weatherstaff took up his spade again and began to dig.

She frowned a little and gave her trowel a rather spiteful dig into the earth.

Mary had never possessed an animal pet of her own and had always thought she should like one.

And they train them, and pet them, and learn them tricks, and they get to be as sociable as flies.

I mean, because he wants petting.

One could have heard a pin drop.

So he reached out and lent a hand with his pin.

He then drew the pin from his cravat and placed it on the paper.

He went up-town with the man I was telling you of, to get a boat and see if they could borrow another gun.

But they sailed into digging anyway by the flicker of the lightning, and sent a man to the nearest house, a half a mile off, to borrow one.

I must live henceforth without rank and fortune, and to begin this hard apprenticeship I must borrow from a friend the loaf I shall eat until I have earned one.

I got out amongst the driftwood, and then laid down in the bottom of the canoe and let her float.

Confused sights and sounds seemed to float before me, and gradually I fell into a deep, heavy slumber.

The swing moves, and the bubbles float in charming changing colors: the last is still hanging to the end of the pipe, and rocks in the breeze.

Gretel presents Hans with a young goat.

Soon afterwards the old goat came home again from the forest.

Hans takes the goat, ties its legs, and puts it in his pocket.

Women of a certain grade are like prosperous grisettes in one respect, they seldom return home after twelve o'clock.

So, then, the rabbit dies, and justice takes no notice.

The fowl pecked at the rabbit, and the next day was a dead hen.

Well, the Abbe Adelmonte took a rabbit, and made it eat a leaf of the cabbage.

The dogs come and devour the bacon.

Gretel presents Hans with a piece of bacon.

Hans takes the bacon, ties it to a rope, and drags it away behind him.

Nature seems anew to celebrate her awakening into life.

And now the old king gathered together his court, and asked all his kingdom to come and celebrate the wedding of his son and the princess.

They had great-grand-children, and were soon to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage; but they could not exactly recollect the date: and old Granny sat in the tree, and looked as pleased as now.

Thus he roamed about in misery for some years, and at length came to the desert where Rapunzel, with the twins to which she had given birth, a boy and a girl, lived in wretchedness.

At eight in the evening the schoolhouse was brilliantly lighted, and adorned with wreaths and festoons of foliage and flowers.

In the summer Rose-red took care of the house, and every morning laid a wreath of flowers by her mother's bed before she awoke, in which was a rose from each tree.

Chateau-Renaud contented himself with tapping his boot with his flexible cane.

So she left the pan on the fire and took a large jug and went into the cellar and tapped the ale cask.

Then she tapped in a peculiar manner at a door, which after being opened to admit her was again fastened, and curiosity penetrated no farther.

Mary, kneeling by him holding the seeds, looked at him and stopped frowning.

He saw as though in a mist, a black figure kneeling and buried in a confused mass of white drapery.

Fernand, kneeling by her side, took her hand, and covered it with kisses that Mercedes did not even feel.