10th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

The boys had resumed their sports in the clearing, and were enacting a mimic chase to the post among themselves.

Ashamed of his apprehensions, the young man turned toward the water, and strove to divert his attention to the mimic stars that dimly glimmered on its moving surface.

The protesting minority were forgotten in the throng which abjured and came; and the audience was almost as brilliant as the show.

Thanks to the negro vote, the Republicans and their allies were firmly entrenched and they were riding rough-shod over the powerless but still protesting minority.

In that section, the Confederate sympathizers were in the minority and the hand of war fell heavily upon them, as it did on all the border states, neighbor informing against neighbor and brother killing brother.

And now ensued a miscellaneous scene of confusion.

He was a sort of town traveller for a number of miscellaneous houses, now; but made little or nothing of it, I am afraid.

The tiled floor was thick with dust, and a remarkable array of miscellaneous objects was shrouded in the same grey covering.

I was a little unthinking child in those days, just following a misleading impulse without question.

Their conductor pursued an opposite road from that which Wamba had recommended, for the purpose of misleading them.

but, like a phosphoric light, they rise but to mislead.

She knew she should feel sorry for Melanie, but somehow she could not muster a spark of sympathy.

Carriage sticks fast, while Cudjoe on the outside is heard making a great muster among the horses.

Climbing back into the wagon required all the strength Scarlett could muster, but at last it was done and she picked up the lines.

But Night stood still and mute.

As he stood, mute and grave, she again fell to caressing Carlo.

She looked at me, leaning back in her chair, and remained motionless and mute.

It belongs to the pure nautical mathematics.

This was the fourth time in my nautical life that I had done the same thing.

In front is a leather rack, in which to keep your speaking trumpet, pipe, telescope, and other nautical conveniences.

And when they come to look at that spare room they had to take soundings before they could navigate it.

The author shows his skill in navigation.

He reminds me how often the same accidents have happened to other navigators who have attempted this sea, and in spite of myself, he fills me with cheerful auguries.

An error I readily forgive, but wilful negligence or forgetfulness, never.

St. Clare had often thought the same thing himself; but he answered, negligently.

Rhett Butler lounged in the shadows, his long legs in their elegant boots crossed negligently, his dark face an unreadable blank.

The day was fair, the wind favourable; all smiled on our nuptial embarkation.

The ringers at East Egdon were announcing the nuptials of Eustacia and her son.

The nuptials of our hero, thus formally approved by his father, were celebrated in the most august of temples, the noble Minster of York.

You refuse, then, to oblige me.

But if you could oblige me, I should take it as a kindness.

I replied that he would much oblige me by drinking it, if he thought he could do it safely, but by no means otherwise.

At that moment I saw the reflection of the visage and features quite distinctly in the dark oblong glass.

The house loomed obscure and uninhabited; only an oblong gleam above the door spoke of provisional occupancy.

The Narwhale has a very picturesque, leopard-like look, being of a milk-white ground colour, dotted with round and oblong spots of black.

She wanted to be clear of him, and especially of his consciousness, his words, his obsession with himself, his endless treadmill obsession with himself, and his own words.

Now it was a baby she was obsessed by.

Money was the obsession dominating her mind these days.

You have no idea what obstinate hair mine is, Copperfield.

His hand closed, he turned away, and his face wore a still more obstinate expression.

He is very decided, but never will be obstinate, if you reason kindly, not oppose impatiently.

It is not my fault that so unusual an occurrence has taken place tonight.

Such is my journal of what relates to this strange occurrence up to the present day.

Skilful men, of the medical and chirurgical profession, were of rare occurrence in the colony.

Once again he repeated the offense.

The celebrated doctor did not take offense.

Will did not take offense but continued rubbing his hands before the flame.

It gave under my desperate onset and turned over.

The onset and the issue were like the passage and destruction of a whirlwind.

Encouraged by this slight advantage, the impetuous young man continued his onset, and sprang upon his enemy with naked hands.

Tom stood still, rather flustered by this onslaught.

To the youth it was an onslaught of redoubtable dragons.

The first onslaught of jealousy, once lived through, could never come back again, and even the discovery of infidelities could never now affect her as it had the first time.

Her only desire now was to be rid of his oppressive presence.

That was before he came to me, but the recollection of it is oppressive to him even now.

I remember pausing once, with a kind of sorrow that was not all oppressive, not quite despairing.

Gatsby indicated a gorgeous, scarcely human orchid of a woman who sat in state under a white plum tree.

The fine flower of their intimacy was to her rather like an orchid, a bulb stuck parasitic on her tree of life, and producing, to her eyes, a rather shabby flower.

All this was in the natural order of things, and the orchid basking in its artificially created atmosphere could round the delicate curves of its petals undisturbed by the ice on the panes.

I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.

Then he left the country and went to Argos, where it was ordained that he should reign over much people.

Ay, to be sure, he must be ordained in readiness; and I am very glad to find things are so forward between you.

Three white pigeons were flirting and tiptoeing as ornate as ladies in ball dresses.

It was at Mrs. Elsing's silver musicale for the benefit of the convalescents that Rhett signed his final warrant of ostracism.

He expected some queer outburst from Levin.

The minister quailed before this outburst of sarcasm.

I told her so, as she sat brooding after this outburst.

Pearl was a born outcast of the infantile world.

Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was.

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

All their outcry did them no good, of course.

Pork set up an outcry which she found infuriating.

As he looked the youth gripped his outcry at his throat.

The hearing of all this, and a good deal more, outlasted the banquet some time.

Mas'r Davy, it'll outlast all the treasure in the wureld.

I can't compare with it; and I've known some ships made of dead trees outlast the lives of men made of the most vital stuff of vital fathers.

I am not an outlaw, then, fair rose of Sharon.

No outlaw in this land uses the dialect in which thou hast spoken.

He would have nothing to do with other people, but led the life of an outlaw.

But apparently it was part of his fun to outrage her feelings as much as possible.

The truth might reveal fearful depravity or it might reveal the evidence of a rank outrage.

The one great outrage of her life, demanding to be constantly avenged, was the passage of a donkey over that immaculate spot.

Bingley and Jane, however, soon allowed the others to outstrip them.

But it bade fair to outstrip them; it flew on and on, as a mass of interblending bubbles borne down a rapid stream from the hills.

Jo drew a long breath and unclasped her hands as she watched the poor fellow trying to outstrip the trouble which he carried in his heart.

With the same complacent smile he told her of the ovations he had received in consequence of the act he had passed.

Again the abbe had been obliged to swallow a draught of water to calm the emotions that threatened to overpower him.

It is impossible to describe the extremity of terror which seized upon the Jew at this information, and seemed at once to overpower his whole faculties.

Mr. Collins was carefully instructing them in what they were to expect, that the sight of such rooms, so many servants, and so splendid a dinner, might not wholly overpower them.

Not long afterwards, the country was overrun by war.

It was a crazy old house with a wharf of its own, abutting on the water when the tide was in, and on the mud when the tide was out, and literally overrun with rats.

Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.

It belonged to Stubb to oversee the business.

He used to oversee my place on the lake, and did it capitally, too.

Meantime, overseeing the other part of the ship, Captain Peleg ripped and swore astern in the most frightful manner.

Because to-morrow, Haidee, you will be free; you will then assume your proper position in society, for I will not allow my destiny to overshadow yours.

My tears flow; my mind is overshadowed by a cloud of disappointment.

There was a large beech-tree overshadowing the place, and the small, sharp, triangular beech-nuts lay scattered thickly on the ground.

Without one overt act of hostility, one upbraiding word, he contrived to impress me momently with the conviction that I was put beyond the pale of his favour.

Scarlett found that it relieved her overwrought nerves.

Forgive this weakness, Mr. Holmes, I have been a little overwrought.

At the mention of Ashley's name, Scarlett's overwrought nerves gave way and she burst into tears.

Downstairs there was a pandemonium of racing feet and sobbing voices.

When he drove off he waved to Bea; and Carol, lonely at the window above, was envious of their pastoral.

An artist friend fitted her out with his castoff palettes, brushes, and colors, and she daubed away, producing pastoral and marine views such as were never seen on land or sea.

Thou wast my pastor, and hadst charge of my soul, and knowest me better than these men can.

He paused, eminent, dominant, glaring from his pedestal.

The pedestal, it appeared to me, was of bronze, and was thick with verdigris.

Four successive revolutions had built and cemented the pedestal upon which his fortune was based.

I did not quite perceive the application of this fact to myself, but I smiled on Mrs. Crupp, as benignly as was in my power.

Elinor needed little observation to perceive that her reserve was a mere calmness of manner with which sense had nothing to do.

Her daughters are both exceedingly well married, and therefore I cannot perceive the necessity of her remembering them farther.

Stepan Arkadyevitch gave a scarcely perceptible smile.

His affections seemed to reanimate towards them all, and his interest in their welfare again became perceptible.

Deliberately she shrouded the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in the faintly perceptible smile.

Within myself, I had sustained, from my babyhood, a perpetual conflict with injustice.

Yes, Jo was a very happy woman there, in spite of hard work, much anxiety, and a perpetual racket.

Valrosa well deserved its name, for in that climate of perpetual summer roses blossomed everywhere.

She felt an intense longing to prolong, to perpetuate, the momentary exaltation of her spirit.

Within myself, I had sustained, from my babyhood, a perpetual conflict with injustice.

Yes, Jo was a very happy woman there, in spite of hard work, much anxiety, and a perpetual racket.

The night was soft and persuasive.

Jelinek spoke in a persuasive tone to Mrs. Shimerda, and then turned to grandfather.

He is eloquent and persuasive, and once his words had even power over my heart; but trust him not.

Mont-Fitchet took the letter from his Superior, and was about to peruse it.

She cast her eyes again over the note to peruse it a second time, and saw there was a postscript.

I closed the book, which I dared no longer peruse, and put it on the table, beside the untasted tart.

All day, she seemed to pervade the whole house.

The passage was a long one, and seemed to pervade the whole square basement of the Manor House.

Strange to say, that quiet influence which was inseparable in my mind from Agnes, seemed to pervade even the city where she dwelt.

None so self-devoted as Hester when pestilence stalked through the town.

It is a very justifiable cause of a war, to invade a country after the people have been wasted by famine, destroyed by pestilence, or embroiled by factions among themselves.

There escaped from Eustacia one of those shivering sighs which used to shake her like a pestilent blast.

Which is curious, but a phenomenon of our day.

A phenomenon solved by modern philosophy and astronomy.

To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

But, Amy was a young pilgrim, and just now her burden seemed very heavy.

The pilgrim extricated himself, as if there were contamination in the touch.

She knew it very well, for it was that beautiful old story of the best life ever lived, and Jo felt that it was a true guidebook for any pilgrim going on a long journey.

When his brief story was ended, the father of the sick woman stepped forth, and, in a few pithy expression, related, in his turn, what he knew.

They could always talk; and their discourse, witty, pithy, original, had such charms for me, that I preferred listening to, and sharing in it, to doing anything else.

Uncas pressed closer to his side, and regarded the speaker with a look of commendation, while his father expressed his satisfaction by the ordinary pithy exclamation of approbation.

Jurgis walked home-with his pittance of pay in his pocket, heartbroken, overwhelmed.

That Jurgis did not starve to death was due solely to the pittance the children brought him.

I fancy old Frankland allows her a pittance, but it cannot be more, for his own affairs are considerably involved.

Her reason for standing so dead still as the pivot of this circle of heath-country was just as obscure.

Throw stiff-armed from the shoulder, like there was a pivot there for it to turn on, like a girl; not from the wrist and elbow, with your arm out to one side, like a boy.

He went pale, with a sort of fear, when he saw Connie lifting the inert legs of the man in her arms, into the other chair, Clifford pivoting round as she did so.

Duncan had no other guide than a distant glimmering light, which served, however, the office of a polar star to the lover.

The third showed the pinnacle of an iceberg piercing a polar winter sky: a muster of northern lights reared their dim lances, close serried, along the horizon.

It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous fagots were thus bound together that in the agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling.

A bleeding about the poll on Sunday afternoons was amply accounted for by the explanation.

If they've got to vote ten thousand dead men like the Yankees did, every corpse in every cemetery in Georgia will be at the polls.

Finally, with Georgia in the status of a military province, the polls had been ordered thrown open to the negroes, whether the state's laws permitted it or not.