4th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

Franz was fascinated by the horrible spectacle.

It seemed as though they were both inspired at the same time with some horrible thought.

No doubt she belongs to the same horrible race he does, and is, like himself, a dealer in magical arts.

By the time it was night I was pretty hungry.

She looked an ugly, cross little thing and was frowning because she was beginning to be hungry and feel disgracefully neglected.

She stayed out of doors nearly all day, and when she sat down to her supper at night she felt hungry and drowsy and comfortable.

Just then came a hunter with four dogs.

There were hunters and horses and dogs and ladies.

I jumped in, and was off in a hurry.

The boys wanted to know what the hurry was about.

Then I bounced for the top in a hurry, for I was nearly busting.

Now hustle back, right off, and fetch the duke up here, and the new carpet-bags.

So in they come, but couldn't see us in the dark, and most trod on us whilst we was hustling to get under the bed.

Notwithstanding his youth, Master Andrea was a very skilful and intelligent boy.

The robin thought he spoke this gibberish to them because they were not intelligent enough to understand feathered speech.

She called to mind his intelligent eyes, and his long hair, so vividly, she could quite see him as he used to laugh when they were sitting under the roses at home.

So she sought the jacket pocket.

She put the jacket away, and stood by musing a minute.

The moment he was gone, she ran to a closet and got out the ruin of a jacket which Tom had gone pirating in.

In the meantime the smell of the sweet jam rose to where the flies were sitting in great numbers, and they were attracted and descended on it in hosts.

House was jammed again that night, and we sold this crowd the same way.

And he now remembered the important event of the evening before, how his head had got jammed in between the iron railings of the hospital.

Albert would not do us the honor to be jealous; he does not like Eugenie sufficiently.

Well, well, don't be angry, my boy; you know well enough what it is to be unfortunate; and misfortunes make us jealous.

She had almost all the honors of the quadrille, and if she were envious of the Count of San-Felice's daughter, we will not undertake to say that Carmela was not jealous of her.

He had an old long-tailed blue jeans coat with slick brass buttons flung over his arm, and both of them had big, fat, ratty-looking carpet-bags.

The supper consisted of a roast pheasant garnished with Corsican blackbirds; a boar's ham with jelly, a quarter of a kid with tartar sauce, a glorious turbot, and a gigantic lobster.

This joke elicited a fresh burst of applause.

As I before said, I thought the whole thing was a joke, nothing more.

So then they thought they would fly up to the sky, and have a joke there.

So she packed her small trunk and made the journey.

However, they all set out on their journey together, and came at last to an ant-hill.

This said, he flew out at the door, and poor Lily followed; and every now and then a white feather fell, and showed her the way she was to journey.

Dantes seemed full of kindness.

Had Morrel even any suspicions, so much kindness would have dispelled them.

And from this time the kindness which Edmond showed him was enough for the brave seaman.

Martha let her knitting drop on her knee and gazed at her with startled eyes.

The crisis seemed past, a low moaning was heard, and he raised himself on one knee.

The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread-and-butter, and went down on one knee.

The next witness proved the finding of the knife near the corpse.

He took a thick knife out of his Pocket and opened one of its blades.

Dickon carried his knife in his hand and showed her things which she thought wonderful.

I have been bound by my promises as rigidly as any knight of olden times.

On the second day Iron Hans equipped him as a white knight, and gave him a white horse.

When the day came, the youth galloped to the spot, took his place amongst the knights, and was recognized by no one.

The count knit his brows, and remained silent an instant.

It was evident from his pale face and knit brows that his resolution to revenge himself was growing weaker.

Very soon afterward a bell rang and she rolled up her knitting.

It didn't have an iron latch on the front door, nor a wooden one with a buckskin string, but a brass knob to turn, the same as houses in town.

He gave the noisy bird a knock on his beak, and walked on.

Just as breakfast was completed there was a knock at the door.

This was to knock off being pirates, for a while, and be Indians for a change.

A knot of rose-colored ribbons fell from his shoulder almost to the ground.

His thin but wiry legs were arrayed in a pair of richly embroidered clocked stockings, evidently of English manufacture, while from his three-cornered hat depended a long streaming knot of white and blue ribbons.

They were making nearly ten knots an hour.

Then Martha gave up her store of knowledge.

Wert thou but once here, my friend, though wouldst feel and own the power of knowledge.

That when my coachman was about to harness the horses to my carriage, he discovered that they had been removed from the stables without his knowledge.

Caderousse climbed the ladder slowly, and looked over the coping to see if the street was quiet.

Caderousse, scarcely yet relying on this promise, put his legs out of the window and stood on the ladder.

He went to the tower in which his mother was confined, and as it was so high, he wished for a ladder which would reach up to the very top.

The new-born lamb was in his arms and the little red fox trotted by his side.

It was not the first motherless lamb he had found and he knew what to do with it.

By the time the lamb fell asleep questions poured forth and Dickon answered them all.

He crossed the lawn and turned into the Long Walk by the ivied walls.

In the middle of the lawn I stopped to light it, then I continued my path.

One of the windows looking upon the courtyard gave also a glimpse of the lawn.

This was the great Judge Thatcher, brother of their own lawyer.

Judge Thatcher hoped to see Tom a great lawyer or a great soldier some day.

The lawyer was a young man with light hair whose face expressed a hundred times more emotion than that which characterized the prisoner.

Sid had learned his lesson days before.

He gratefully opened to the lesson for the afternoon and poured ink upon the page.

And out of bed he jumped, and read in his book, and now all at once he knew his whole lesson.

The other room near the library was a bedroom.

He went into the library and sent for Mrs. Medlock.

She was thinking over the new idea which had come to her when she heard of the library.

A couple of squirrels set on a limb and jabbered at me very friendly.

He stretched himself out under the bench, did not move a limb, and behaved as if he were stone dead.

The two men remained opposite one another, Morrel trembling in every limb, the stranger gazing at him with an air of profound pity.

But the lion was an enchanted prince.

The king, however, would no longer believe the lion.

The king, however, had a lion which was a wondrous animal, for he knew all concealed and secret things.

Teresa was lively and gay, but coquettish to excess.

His red waistcoat was as glossy as satin and he flirted his wings and tail and tilted his head and hopped about with all sorts of lively graces.

He was very pert and lively, and hopped about so close to her feet, and put his head on one side and looked at her so slyly that she asked Ben Weatherstaff a question.

They cast down their load and began to open the grave.

I toted up a load, and went back and set down on the bow of the skiff to rest.

There was once upon a time a poor peasant called Crabb, who drove with two oxen a load of wood to the town, and sold it to a doctor for two talers.