3rd Grade Sight Words With Definition

I got to wear shoes all Sunday.

Once they made him wear a brace but he fretted so he was downright ill.

On grand occasions you must wear your uniform; that will look very well.

Well, he was right; he was most always right; he had an uncommon level head for a nigger.

No; by your brilliant and almost sublime conversation you have elevated me above the ordinary level; we no longer talk, we rise to dissertation.

Jim made a floor for the wigwam, and raised it a foot or more above the level of the raft, so now the blankets and all the traps was out of reach of steamboat waves.

But he kept ahead all the time.

Tom reached school ahead of time.

They went straight ahead, then, until they came to the path that led up Cardiff Hill; this they took.

The cups of coffee were all prepared, with the addition of sugar, which had been brought for Albert.

And, in addition to this, everything forgotten or unperceived before presented itself now to his recollection.

On the floor above were similar rooms, with the addition of a third, formed out of the ante-chamber; these three rooms were a salon, a boudoir, and a bedroom.

That means I have bought it of you and paid you for it.

I believe, if she had not been laden, and I had been her master, he would have bought her.

Nobody had bought anything of her the whole livelong day; no one had given her a single farthing.

The flower-bed was not quite bare.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin.

But the flower-beds were bare and wintry and the fountain was not playing.

Mary thought it looked a queer dinner, but he seemed ready to enjoy it.

If no one found out about the secret garden, she should enjoy herself always.

Morrel, to whom, next to my father, I owe every blessing I enjoy, every difficulty his been removed.

The life of a man was to him of far less value than a numeral, especially when, by taking it away, he could increase the sum total of his own desires.

It was not so much the conviction that she was disinherited that caused her grief, but her total inability to account for the feelings which had provoked her grandfather to such an act.

He knows not what I term privation.

bold criminals as a term of derision.

He is going to turn his house into a Badhaus, as the Germans term it.

If they put our candles out it will be an awful fix.

Even when she pressed her hands more tightly over her ears she could not keep the awful sounds out.

It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it.

Here she was to stay for seven years without meat or drink, and die of hunger.

Then the woman served up four different things, roast meat, salad, cakes, and wine.

When dinner-time drew nigh, Catherine took a nice steak, which was all the meat she had, and put it on the fire to fry.

A little ripply, cool breeze begun to blow, and that was as good as saying the night was about done.

So she turned round; and as she had run a good way and was tired, she walked home leisurely to cool herself.

Gradually the cool dim gray of the morning whitened, and as gradually sounds multiplied and life manifested itself.

But there would also be some good stately shops among them.

He now crept on hands and feet through a butcher's shop; at least on every side, and above and below, there was nought but flesh.

In that lady yonder, so strangely dressed, I should find for certain a large milliner's shop; in that one the shop is empty, but it wants cleaning plain enough.

She was the best girl I ever see, and had the most sand.

Joe sat poking up the sand with a stick and looking very gloomy.

I sometimes made little beds in the sand and stuck flowers in them.

The gift of laughing was given to man alone.

And Monte Cristo accompanied these words by the gift of two gold pieces, which produced a torrent of thanks and blessings from the concierge.

Then she felt for the little piece of wood; but when she unwrapped the cloth it was not there, and she saw she had lost the gift of the good stars.

Nine logs was enough for one time; he must shove right over to town and sell.

So the woodman at last said he would sell Tom to the strangers for a large piece of gold, and they paid the price.

We would sell the raft and get on a steamboat and go way up the Ohio amongst the free States, and then be out of trouble.

No, I want to live; I shall struggle to the very last; I will yet win back the happiness of which I have been deprived.

But she did see, nevertheless; and she knew she was winning her fight, too, and was glad to see him suffer as she had suffered.

Huckleberry's hard pantings were his only reply, and the boys fixed their eyes on the goal of their hopes and bent to their work to win it.

The cook threw a frying-pan after her as she went out, but it just missed her.

In a village dwelt a poor old woman, who had gathered together a dish of beans and wanted to cook them.

The only things in the kitchen that did not sneeze, were the cook, and a large cat which was sitting on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear.

And she was so pitiless that she took poor Rapunzel into a desert where she had to live in great grief and misery.

The soldiers you believe to be dying with hunger, worn out with fatigue, ready to desert, gather like atoms of snow about the rolling ball as it hastens onward.

At the moment Caderousse quitted his sentry-like watch before the door, the road on which he so eagerly strained his sight was void and lonely as a desert at mid-day.

Then observe, too, that the woman with him is altogether unlike all others of her sex.

Pray observe, that I too much respect the laws of hospitality to ask your name or title.

Instinctively Dantes turned round to observe by what watch or clock the abbe had been able so accurately to specify the hour.

I fetched out the gun, and now I was done.

He had seen a hunted and helpless rabbit look as she did, with a gun levelled at its head.

He had a gun which he had stole, I reckon, and we fished and hunted, and that was what we lived on.

I laid there, and had a good rest and a smoke out of my pipe, looking away into the sky; not a cloud in it.

Her eyes, raised towards heaven, were watching a silvery cloud gliding over the azure, its form that of a shadow mounting towards heaven.

The next day the rain poured down in torrents again, and when Mary looked out of her window the moor was almost hidden by gray mist and cloud.

His aunt detected the act and made him let it go.

His aunt Polly stood surprised a moment, and then broke into a gentle laugh.

He knew that in her heart his aunt was on her knees to him, and he was morosely gratified by the consciousness of it.

If I were to live, this place would sometime belong to me.

They belong no doubt to the lieutenant who lives over the way.

She had begun to wonder why she had never seemed to belong to anyone even when her father and mother had been alive.

Then the Castle of Saint Angelo fired three cannon to indicate that number three had won.

Andrea was short and fat; his visage, marked with brutal cruelty, did not indicate age; he might be thirty.

Monte Cristo took a paper from his pocket, upon which were drawn three signs, with numbers to indicate the order in which they were to be worked.

The humorous poem was admirably recited, and the speaker much applauded.

The beginning of the poem he praised with great generosity: he even found the idea original and effective.

One wrote a whole poem about it, and said the bell sounded like the voice of a mother to a good dear child, and that no melody was sweeter than the tones of the bell.

She put the key in and turned it.

She looked at the key quite a long time.

She put the key in her pocket and walked up and down her walk.

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

Then good food was set before them, milk and pancakes, with sugar, apples, and nuts.

The cups of coffee were all prepared, with the addition of sugar, which had been brought for Albert.

The artist erected a man in the front yard, that resembled a derrick.

The artist who could have depicted the expression of these two countenances would certainly have made of them a beautiful picture.

Tom surveyed his last touch with the eye of an artist, then he gave his brush another gentle sweep and surveyed the result, as before.

His elbow was pressing against some hard substance.

It was then observable that the substance was greenish.

At the fifth or sixth blow the pickaxe struck against an iron substance.

One division of La Force, in which the most dangerous and desperate prisoners are confined, is called the court of Saint-Bernard.

"And so our division is made, mother," said the young man, affecting ease of mind.

He was examining a branch of a standard rose and he shook his head.

As she said this, she looked up, and there was the Cat again, sitting on a branch of a tree.

He knelt and with his knife cut the lifeless-looking branch through, not far above the earth.

I know I can print letters if I try.

A body can set down and read it off like coarse print.

His name even went into immortal print, for the village paper magnified him.

Villefort watched him with alarm not devoid of admiration.

At midnight the sentinel gave the alarm, and in an instant all were on the alert.

Dr. Craven started in actual alarm and Mrs. Medlock almost fell back because he had accidentally bumped against her.