2nd Grade Sight Words With Definition

Mary was glowing with exercise and good spirits.

He looked up at the sky, flushed and glowing with the strangely new exercise, slight as it was.

After the ceremony Colin always took his walking exercise and throughout the day he exercised his newly found power at intervals.

He thought himself strong enough, for he mistook fever for energy.

Morrel uttered these words with an energy which made the count shudder.

There was an energy, a conviction, and a sincerity in the manner of the young man, which silenced the tumult.

His lips were fuller and of a normal color.

His whole face brightened and a little color came into it.

It was so new and big and wonderful and such a heavenly color.

The meal sifted out and made a little track all the way to the lake.

They danced hand in hand beside the calm lake in the clear moonshine.

She then came to a large lake, where there was neither ship nor boat.

On the way he passed by a mill, and there sat a raven with broken wings, and out of pity he took him and wrapped him in the skin.

Then Tom tumbled his ham over the bluff and let himself down after it, tearing both skin and clothes to some extent in the effort.

They salted the flesh, and the peasant went into the town and wanted to sell the skin there, so that he might buy a new calf with the proceeds.

It all seemed most majestic and mysterious when they sat down in their circle.

Carlini raised her in his arms, and carried her out of the circle of firelight.

Two hundred deer and more came running inside the circle at once, and the huntsmen shot them.

The Cadets paraded in a style calculated to kill the late member with envy.

He promised to abstain from smoking, chewing, and profanity as long as he remained a member.

In Roeskilde, too, the members of the Danish Diet assemble.

He then set himself to work to count his fortune.

Most everybody would a been satisfied with the pile, and took it on trust; but no, they must count it.

An aged count once lived in Switzerland, who had an only son, but he was stupid, and could learn nothing.

Do as you like with your own, but do not fill or empty mine.

It would be long indeed ere you would find so lucrative a post as that you have now the good fortune to fill.

Out of all the numerous clerks that used to fill the deserted corridor and the empty office, but two remained.

The judge said it was the holiest time on record, or something like that.

If he only had a clean Sunday-school record he could be willing to go, and be done with it all.

He said that in that way it could be strung out to as much as eighty year, and would be the best time on record.

The count said a word in Arabic to Ali, and the horses went on at great speed.

Their speed was slow, however, because pitfalls were somewhat common, and had to be guarded against.

The duke left the royal presence with the speed of a young man; his really sincere royalism made him youthful again.

This change of base occurred often.

The rock, already shaken by the explosion, tottered on its base.

And he sprang from the rock in order to inspect the base on which it had formerly stood.

De white one gits him to go right a little while, den de black one sail in en bust it all up.

They could not talk, the old sail flapped so furiously, even if the other noises would have allowed them.

When the patron awoke, the vessel was hurrying on with every sail set, and every sail full with the breeze.

She is no doubt gone to Lapland; for there is always snow and ice there.

I should like to have seen the count take something in my house, if only an ice.

From time to time chills ran through his whole body, and clutched his heart in a grasp of ice.

The first thing the beetle did was to take him by the finger.

She wore a green brocade dress and held a green parrot on her finger.

And with these words the bride drew forth the finger and shewed it to the assembled guests.

So then I got a shovel, and then we picked and shoveled, turn about, and made the fur fly.

When he emerged at the quarry he felt secure, and so he picked up his nimble heels and flew.

Once when she was walking toward him he picked up his spade and turned away as if he did it on purpose.

A change of ideas presented themselves to his brain, like a new design on the kaleidoscope.

I am one of the gang, but have got religgion and wish to quit it and lead an honest life again, and will betray the helish design.

The drawing-rooms were decorated with the rarest pictures by the old masters, the boudoirs hung with draperies from China, of fanciful colors, fantastic design, and wonderful texture.

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

In its happy days flowers had been tucked away into every inch and hole and corner.

When Dickon had deepened the hole Colin went on turning the soft earth over and over.

The mighty river lay like an ocean at rest.

The sun, red and flaming, was sinking into the embrace of the welcoming ocean.

She was looking at the sea, and her form was outlined on the blue ocean and sky.

They will all disappear, like the fabrics children build with cards, and which fall, one by one, under the breath of their builder, even if there are two hundred of them.

So Chanticleer began to build a little carriage of nutshells: and when it was finished, Partlet jumped into it and sat down, and bid Chanticleer harness himself to it and draw her home.

The gloomy building rose from the bosom of the ocean with imposing majesty and seemed to dominate the scene.

Well, I have too," said Tom; "oh, hundreds of times.

Do not think I wish to turn you out, my dear Debray," continued Danglars; "oh, no, not at all.

Oh," replied Valentine with a convulsive movement, "oh, indeed, Maximilian, you are too timid for an officer, for a soldier who, they say, never knows fear.

After some time he took it in his head that he would travel to Rome.

It would be impossible to make use of a diligence, equally so to engage post-horses; to travel either way a passport was necessary.

Besides, it is no reason because you have not seen an execution at Paris, that you should not see one anywhere else; when you travel, it is to see everything.

The funds rose one per cent higher than before they had fallen.

She went out to see for herself; and she would have been content to find twenty per cent.

Some of them kinds of loafers never has a cent in the world, nor a chaw of tobacco of their own.

Laughing is an infallible sign of the highest degree of mental development.

He was the same man, or rather the development of the same man, whom we have heretofore seen as assistant attorney at Marseilles.

Robins are not like human beings; their muscles are always exercised from the first and so they develop themselves in a natural manner.

The proverb was but too correct as regarded Benedetto, and even in his infancy he manifested the worst disposition.

The count had spoken correctly.

A man like Danglars was wholly inaccessible to any gentler method of correction.

Near her was the instrument on which she had just been playing; it was elegantly fashioned, and worthy of its mistress.

Examine the past and the present, and endeavor to dive into futurity, and then say whether I am not a divine instrument.

It was a continual scratching, as if made by a huge claw, a powerful tooth, or some iron instrument attacking the stones.

There was once upon a time an old fox with nine tails, who believed that his wife was not faithful to him, and wished to put her to the test.

Then the figure, from whom she could not detach her eyes, and who appeared more protecting than menacing, took the glass, and walking towards the night-light held it up, as if to test its transparency.

Then he said to himself, "I must put this to the test, but without compromising anybody."

There was a whole row of them standing from the town-gates to the palace.

Three rows of benches on each side and six rows in front of him were occupied by the dignitaries of the town and by the parents of the pupils.

As Tom wended to school after breakfast, he was the envy of every boy he met because the gap in his upper row of teeth enabled him to expectorate in a new and admirable way.

In one place, far from the section usually traversed by tourists, the names "BECKY & TOM" had been found traced upon the rocky wall with candle-smoke, and near at hand a grease-soiled bit of ribbon.

The racket stopped, and the wave sucked back.

The countess bent her head, as if beneath a heavy wave of bitter thoughts.

The word reached his ear as a wave which he no longer had the strength to surmount passed over his head.

This word was pronounced in a manner impossible to describe.

It is impossible to describe what Morrel suffered during this enumeration.

It would be difficult to describe the state of stupor in which Villefort left the Palais.

Until then he had been sustained by rage, by his strength of mind, by despair, by the supreme agony which led the Titans to scale the heavens, and Ajax to defy the gods.

The jeweller took the ring, and drawing from his pocket a pair of steel pliers and a small set of copper scales, he took the stone out of its setting, and weighed it carefully.

I am endeavoring," he thought, "to make this man happy; I look upon this restitution as a weight thrown into the scale to balance the evil I have wrought.

He had a tiny plump body and a delicate beak, and slender delicate legs.

Just after she had closed the cabinet door she heard a tiny rustling sound.

It seemed like a thing alive and yet its tiny voice made the stillness seem deeper.

The carriage continued to roll on with frightful speed.

She sends you her compliments; and here is a roll for you.

At the end of ten minutes the vessel begins to roll heavily and settle down.