3rd Grade Sight Words With Definition

She had even made each of the children a doughcake with a bit of brown sugar in it.

However, at last she stretched her arms round it as far as they would go, and broke off a bit of the edge with each hand.

Her chin was pressed so closely against her foot, that there was hardly room to open her mouth; but she did it at last, and managed to swallow a morsel of the lefthand bit.

Because I am like this always, ill and having to lie down.

He had taken it to the cottage wrapped in his jacket and he had let it lie near the fire and had fed it with warm milk.

When I lie by myself and remember I begin to have pains everywhere and I think of things that make me begin to scream because I hate them so.

I no longer belonged to myself, for I had my sister-in-law to protect and provide for.

Also because he is not sure of always retaining his situation, and wishes to provide for the future.

Every delicious fruit that the four quarters of the globe could provide was heaped in vases from China and jars from Japan.

Becky understood, and her hope died again.

He understood what Colin felt better than Colin did himself.

He understood by a sort of instinct so natural that he did not know it was understanding.

It was perhaps well he had been prepared or he might have been startled.

When Mrs. Medlock had prepared the nursery she had not thought of amusement.

The terrible moment had come, but I had so long been prepared for it that my heart did not fail in the least.

She went straight off and told Tom about it.

I went to sleep reading in bed and slept straight through all that noise.

A white layer of ashes covered the fire, and a thin blue breath of smoke rose straight into the air.

Tom sulked in a corner and exalted his woes.

Mary sat in her corner of the railway carriage and looked plain and fretful.

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

Not a modern picture among them.

This modern place of entertainment stood on the left-hand side of the post road, and backed upon the Rhone.

But the kings of modern times, restrained by the limits of mere probability, have neither courage nor desire.

He stopped playing his pipe and began to rise from the ground.

But hunger and wretchedness rise superior to fears in the long run.

The river was coming up pretty fast, and lots of driftwood going by on the rise.

Right at your elbow; if you reach out your arm you can touch him.

And the sun fell warm upon his face like a hand with a lovely touch.

An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her.

Madame de Villefort received them with equal solemnity.

Three companies presented themselves, each offering equal securities.

These two ingredients are mixed in equal proportions, and formed into pills.

You have managed my affairs so well that I ought to allow you all the time you require for your own.

For to-day, however, she would allow it; and they must shut him in the empty cage that was standing in the window.

Cease, then, to allow yourself to be duped by vain hopes, that even your own excellent heart refuses to believe in.

Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high.

I went down to the front garden and clumb over the stile where you go through the high board fence.

He heard no noise on board, for the young people were as subdued and still as people usually are who are nearly tired to death.

If it is Dickon you will be safe enough.

Tom eyed it, and longed for it; but it was safe out of his reach.

But one knew he could not get in, and somehow it made one feel very safe and warm inside a room with a red coal fire.

Then a big doctor came to see him an made them take it off.

The doctor said he must have fresh air and if he wants us to take him out no one dare disobey him.

I used to wear an iron thing to keep my back straight, but a grand doctor came from London to see me and said it was stupid.

Mary put on her coat and hat and took her skipping-rope over her arm.

He hung his hat on a peg and flung himself into his seat with business-like alacrity.

Martha found her coat and hat for her and a pair of stout little boots and she showed her her way downstairs.

Everything was so nice that her pleasure began to crowd her anger out of her mind.

The crowd fell apart, now, and the Sheriff came through, ostentatiously leading Potter by the arm.

Arrived at the dreadful place, he wormed his small body through the crowd and saw the dismal spectacle.

He would run away from home and enter upon it.

Still he dared not to enter, as they might have left some turnkey to watch the dead.

The old woman spoke so kindly, that the girl summoned up courage and agreed to enter into her service.

The Rajah condescended to seat himself on a rug under the tree.

She had finished her dinner and gone to her favorite seat on the hearth-rug.

He hung his hat on a peg and flung himself into his seat with business-like alacrity.

The superior education of Dantes gave an air of such extreme probability to this statement that it never once occurred to Jacopo to doubt its accuracy.

The statements was interesting, but tough.

Ample corroboration of this statement may be obtained by arresting the above-mentioned Edmond Dantes, who either carries the letter for Paris about with him, or has it at his father's abode.

He kept thinking about the dream.

There he found the loveliness of a dream.

I should be sure you were a dream if you went.

A slight movement of surprise escaped Dantes.

With gloating eyes they watched every movement.

A convulsive movement again brought him to the surface.

Confound it, I just expect the wind has blowed it to us.

He evidently did not expect an answer and the next moment he gave her a surprise.

They had a language too; but surely nobody can expect that the soul of the watchman should understand it.

A slow smile spread over it and the gardener looked quite different.

There were numbers of standard roses which had so spread their branches that they were like little trees.

At last he spread his wings and made a darting flight to the top of a tree, where he perched and sang loudly.

Their parents lived exactly opposite.

He lay with his feet towards a doorway, and exactly opposite sat the watchman asleep.

Gerda was obliged to rest herself again, when, exactly opposite to her, a large Raven came hopping over the white snow.

True, I was a tailor, till the trade fell off.

At the sight of this he was overjoyed, and forgetting all about his son, went into trade again, and became a richer merchant than before.

So the young man agreed to follow his trade, and he soon showed himself so clever, that nothing could escape him that he had once set his mind upon.

These animals, though wild and agile as chamois, were too much like domestic goats, and Franz could not consider them as game.

I doubt not you will consider these praises the result of blind maternal affection, but there is a soul of iron in that delicate, fragile body.

Yet perchance to-morrow deception will so act on me, that I shall, on compulsion, consider such a contemptible possession as the utmost happiness.

I undertook it because it was what my captain had bade me do.

And that was Policar Morrel, my uncle, who was afterwards a captain.

If you have been culpable, it was imprudence, and this imprudence was in obedience to the orders of your captain.

The statements was interesting, but tough.

In the fulness of time the interesting occasion arrived.

It seemed as if all the interesting things were happening in one day.

He smiled; the infernal invention would serve him for this purpose.

They have, perhaps, some motive to serve in hastening the ruin of a rival firm.

Presently the bird came in and wanted to serve up the dinner, but he could nowhere see the cook.

I had a similar attack the year previous to my imprisonment.

So saying, the abbe exhibited a sort of torch very similar to those used in public illuminations.

In this case, however, although the occasion of the entertainment was similar, the company was strikingly dissimilar.

After this he rode up the glass mountain.

The man from the forest stood before it, began to eat, and by the end of one day the whole mountain had vanished.

Well, you know he reigned over a rich valley which was overhung by the mountain whence he derived his picturesque name.

They took him and buried him on the bank.

I stood on the bank and looked out over the river.

They parted the bushes on the bank and peered out over the water.

The next minute I was a-spinning down stream soft but quick in the shade of the bank.

But at last he had felt tired and had thrown himself down to rest on a carpet of moss by a stream.

A monstrous big lumber-raft was about a mile up stream, coming along down, with a lantern in the middle of it.

Everything is in readiness for our flight, and we can select any time we choose.

I would not choose to see the man against whom I pleaded smile, as though in mockery of my words.

Yes, if a fairy tale would come of its own accord; but they are proud and haughty, and come only when they choose.