10th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

Dear Victor, banish these dark passions.

I hereby banish it completely from my presence.

Have a try therefore at something, and banish all sorrow from your mind.

I now closed Morton school, taking care that the parting should not be barren on my side.

Then a third man, Philoetius, joined them, who was bringing in a barren heifer and some goats.

Refuse to be my wife, and you limit yourself for ever to a track of selfish ease and barren obscurity.

Nevertheless, there is my hand, in friendly witness, that I will exchange no more cuffs with thee, having been a loser by the barter.

He makes the horses ill with too much water, cuts good harness, barters the tires of the wheels for drink, drops bits of iron into the thrashing machine, so as to break it.

The ship, however, was by no means a large one: a Russian craft built on the Siberian coast, and purchased by my uncle after bartering away the vessel in which he sailed from home.

It was of no use to batter themselves against granite.

They had only their hard fists to batter at the world with.

The talking ceased, and Fairway gave a circular motion to the rope, as if he were stirring batter.

The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms.

The plot was only there to beget emotion.

Ye did beget this luckless child, and have abandoned him, ye creative libertines.

As for the sons and the daughters they beget, why, those sons and daughters must take care of themselves; at least, with only the maternal help.

I begrudged the room that Jake and Otto and Russian Peter took up in my memory, which I wanted to crowd with other things.

He knew it would not change him from an ownerless dog, whom everybody begrudges its golden collar, into a comfortable society dog.

They are enshrined in the hearts of all loyal Southerners, and no one begrudges them the scant monetary returns they make for their risks.

Things are going to get so bad under the benign rule of our good friend Rufus Bullock that Georgia is going to vomit him up.

Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness.

As His disciple I adopt His pure, His merciful, His benignant doctrines.

Dear, bequeath me that great patience.

which treasure I bequeath and leave en.

ngle in the second; which treasure I bequeath and leave en.

The more you and I converse, the better; for while I cannot blight you, you may refresh me.

When full of flowers they would doubtless look pretty; but now, at the latter end of January, all was wintry blight and brown decay.

But this, his thinness, so to speak, seemed no more the token of wasting anxieties and cares, than it seemed the indication of any bodily blight.

You are well acquainted with my failure and how heavily I bore the disappointment.

My father and Ernest yet lived, but the former sunk under the tidings that I bore.

His hand, trembling with his effort at self control, bore to his lips the last of his glass of ale.

Mr. Earnshaw carved bountiful platefuls, and the mistress made them merry with lively talk.

And in August, high in air, the beautiful and bountiful horse-chestnuts, candelabra-wise, proffer the passer-by their tapering upright cones of congregated blossoms.

But the cradle was by the bounty of Heaven washed ashore.

Carol tried to stare them down but in face of the impishness of the boys and the bovine gaping of the men, she was embarrassed.

The bugles called to each other like brazen gamecocks.

The spring of the plains is not a reluctant virgin but brazen and soon away.

Then, with a cry of satisfaction, he bent forward and picked up a little brazen cylinder.

Pittypat had certainly broadcast her arrival.

A sweep of chilly air passed by, rustling all the leaves and snowing the flaky ashes broadcast about the fire.

She never created a friend, but seemed always to be sowing broadcast the dragon's teeth, whence sprung a harvest of armed enemies, against whom she rushed to battle.

It is not a very manly thing, Mr. Holmes, to come here and browbeat a woman.

It is a bulwark of sound religion.

Rude, illiterate, dirty, he was a bulwark between the ladies and the terrors of Reconstruction.

She felt that he was a bulwark between her and the darkness that grew thicker as the delayed storm came down in sleet.

They seemed, for the most part, to be very burly men.

So spoke the burly Priest, assuming, on his part, high defiance.

Sitting down and throwing back his outer coat, the man displayed the burly frame of Sikes.

This must be the burrow where the stranger lurked.

Pitty scrambled into her bedroom like a rabbit panting for its burrow.

She was as hunted as a fox, running with a bursting heart, trying to reach a burrow before the hounds caught up.

I summoned strength to ask what had caused this calamity.

And yet my thoughts were idle; not intent on the calamity that weighed upon my heart, but idly loitering near it.

In all seasons of calamity, indeed, whether general or of individuals, the outcast of society at once found her place.

She set on every dish; and I always saw in her face, a face rising out of the caldron.

In an immense caldron soup was boiling; and rabbits and hares were being roasted on a spit.

Then the great caldron tilted back again, empty, and Jurgis saw to his relief that no one was hurt, and turned and followed his guide out into the sunlight.

He leaped up and for a moment she thought he was going to cut a caper, before dignity claimed him.

Jip would bark and caper round us, and go on before, and look back on the landing, breathing short, to see that we were coming.

Flimnap, the treasurer, is allowed to cut a caper on the straight rope, at least an inch higher than any other lord in the whole empire.

The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes.

We were obliged to keep silent upon the dreadful catastrophe.

The young man was too well acquainted with the business of the house, not to feel that a great catastrophe hung over the Morrel family.

I took Mr. Micawber aside that same night, and confided to him the task of standing between Mr. Peggotty and intelligence of the late catastrophe.

In another fortnight I was able to leave my chamber.

I paused to collect myself and then entered the chamber.

At last, while attending a sick chamber, whither the Rev.

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.

The moon was not yet very high; it was besides rather foggy, so that in the darkness all objects seemed mingled in chaotic confusion.

Jo glanced into them, and when she came to her own, leaned her chin on the edge, and stared absently at the chaotic collection, till a bundle of old exercise books caught her eye.

Southern chivalry protected her.

He was deeply read in books of chivalry and romance.

There you lay in the whirling clouds of dust, all huge and hugely, heedless now of your chivalry.

The sense that he was watched, that craft was employed to circumvent his errant tastes, added piquancy to a journey so entirely sentimental, so long as the danger was of no fearful sort.

But she found a Washington which did not cleave to Main Street.

An hour passed, during which Dantes, excited by the feeling of freedom, continued to cleave the waves.

The sailors had again hoisted sail, and the vessel was once more cleaving the waves.

She discovered that an office is as full of cliques and scandals as a Gopher Prairie.

Their hearts shut again till spring, and the nine months of cliques and radiators and dainty refreshments began all over.

As he said this, he released me from his clutch, and only looked at me.

Mistress Mary did not mean to put out her hand and clutch his sleeve but she did it.

Without conscious intention he began to clutch at every passing caprice, taking it for a desire and an object.

He did not coax her to like him.

I tried all I could to coax Elsie away.

If she could only coax Rhett into marrying her, all would be perfect.

A small-town bungalow, the wives of a village doctor and a village dry-goods merchant, a provincial teacher, a colloquial brawl over paying a servant a dollar more a week.

His colloquialisms seemed to Carol no more lax than their habitual slang.

I'll be as damn colloquial as I want to.

commemorate his name by so uncommon an action.

THIS is not the place to commemorate the trials and privations endured by the immigrant Mormons before they came to their final haven.

I begged Mr. Micawber to fill us bumpers, and proposed the toast in due form: shaking hands with him across the table, and kissing Mrs. Micawber, to commemorate that eventful occasion.

Listen to my tale; when you have heard that, abandon or commiserate me, as you shall judge that I deserve.

Lily murmured her commiseration.

It has inspired me with great commiseration, and I hope I understand it and its influences.

Let your compassion be moved, and do not disdain me.

Still thou canst listen to me and grant me thy compassion.

My unfortunate guest regards me with the tenderest compassion.

I thought it best to comply with their proposal.

These motives urged me to comply with his demand.

We may not part until you have promised to comply with my requisition.

That is my least concern; I am, by a course of strange events, become the most miserable of mortals.

He saw her concern, and coming to her, took her hand, pressed it, and kissed it with grateful respect.

Elinor kept her concern and her censure to herself; and was very thankful that Marianne was not present, to share the provocation.

There was a family conclave, the coachman heard of it and leaving his own family went West, and has never returned.

Answer me not," said the Templar, "by urging the difference of our creeds; within our secret conclaves we hold these nursery tales in derision.

It was merely the condensation of the man.

She pictured a condensed university course brought to the people.

Father Mapple rose, and in a mild voice of unassuming authority ordered the scattered people to condense.

No letter of condolence had been sent to Ireland.

Assistance is impossible; condolence insufferable.

She wished me to look after the house, to see callers, and answer notes of condolence.

They do everything to confer happiness, I am sure.

He listened in silence, and finally promised to confer with the physician.

You pretend to have bought it for yourself, but you have really done so to confer a benefit on him.

Others even arose to confirm it.

Therefore I will tell you, and will confirm my words with an oath.

Before the girls could believe the happy truth, the doctor came to confirm it.

They had not been broken by the crash of empires, the machetes of revolting slaves, war, rebellion, proscription, confiscation.

She had fought and schemed and nursed them through the dark times when Yankee confiscation loomed, when money was tight and smart men going to the wall.

The ever-present menace of lawless negroes and Yankee soldiers preyed on her mind, the danger of confiscation was constantly with her, even in her dreams, and she dreaded worse terrors to come.

Jurgis got himself a place in a boardinghouse with some congenial friends.

He was a widower, and found very little congenial companionship in this casual Western city.

From his mighty bulk the whale affords a most congenial theme whereon to enlarge, amplify, and generally expatiate.

So one thing led to another; and the conglomeration of things pressed you flat; held you fast, like a fish in water.

She hated the conglomerate mass of nearly nude flesh on the Lido: there was hardly enough water to wet them all.

'I must say, it is a little vaguely conglomerate, a mixture of gases, so to speak,' said Clifford.

At least, it seemed worse to Frank and the conservative circles in which he moved.

I remember being surprised by his graceful, conservative fox-trot--I had never seen him dance before.

They were sound and conservative in politics, but they talked about motor cars and pump-guns and heaven only knew what new-fangled fads.

The constable nodded profoundly.

Holmes laughed and threw his card across the table to the constable.

In the meantime I should like to speak to the constable who found the body.

On this hint, attempts have been made to construct elaborate migratory charts of the sperm whale.

Carol joined them; she ducked shrieking small boys, and helped babies construct sand-basins for unfortunate minnows.

I quickly destroyed part of my sledge to construct oars, and by these means was enabled, with infinite fatigue, to move my ice raft in the direction of your ship.

SHE tried to be content, which was a contradiction in terms.

But that contradiction in the lamp more and more appals him.

Colonel Lloyd could not brook any contradiction from a slave.

The length of those five days I can convey no idea of to any one.

Infinite pains were then taken by Biddy to convey to my sister some idea of what had happened.

I beg to be allowed to convey, through you, my apologies to your excellent aunt for my late excitement.

He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious yet; but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon.

It was the "simple country wedding" to which guests are convoyed in special trains, and from which the hordes of the uninvited have to be fended off by the intervention of the police.

No honor, no heart, no religion; a corrupt woman.

Old enough to be ambitions, but too young to be corrupt.

Always I hear corrupt murmurs; the chink of gold and metal.