11th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

In everything else the etiquette of the day might stand the strictest investigation.

She wondered, indeed, at his thinking it necessary to do so; but supposed it to be the proper etiquette.

But he knew that by the etiquette of the race course it was not merely impossible for him to see the horse, but improper even to ask questions about him.

He began to fume with rage and exasperation.

He now gave a cry of exasperation and made a furious motion with his hand.

He developed the acute exasperation of a pestered animal, a well-meaning cow worried by dogs.

Marianne said no more, but looked exceedingly hurt.

And Mrs. Jennings too, an exceedingly well-behaved woman, though not so elegant as her daughter.

When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.

Ethan knew the word for one of exceptional import.

Only to the eyes of a Kennicott was it exceptional.

The prince rejoiced in health exceptional even among princes.

Mr. Soames was a tall, spare man, of a nervous and excitable temperament.

He folded his arms and glared at me with his excitable, slanting brown eyes.

Wildeve was a nervous and excitable man, and the game was beginning to tell upon his temper.

The pain of moving his eyes was too excruciating to be borne and he groaned.

These she began to thrust into the image in all directions, with apparently excruciating energy.

Then he understood that it must be in pain: pain so excruciating that he seemed, mysteriously, to feel it shooting through his own body.

I saw one at the Vienna exhibition, which binds with a wire, said Sviazhsky.

Almost any exhibition of complete self sufficiency draws a stunned tribute from me.

It is some systematized exhibition of the whale in his broad genera, that I would now fain put before you.

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

Now, as the business of standing mast-heads, ashore or afloat, is a very ancient and interesting one, let us in some measure expatiate here.

Albert was constantly expatiating on their good fortune in meeting such a man.

It was an immense and solid building, erected at a vast expense.

To save expense, perhaps you can make up something here for myself.

As he had no idea of deceiving her, and always desired to please her, he was thus made chary of launching into expense.

This extension of power can almost be believed in at such moments.

I felt a considerable extension of power and authority, and was anxious to acquit myself creditably.

My journeys became more and more extensive and more productive.

Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate.

Nothing but real indisposition could occasion this extraordinary delay.

When I had lain awake a little while, those extraordinary voices with which silence teems began to make themselves audible.

He exposed their risk and fallacy with his usual skill; and it was only after he had removed every impediment, in the shape of opposing advice, that he ventured to propose his own projects.

Whenever she was restless she dodged her thoughts by the familiar vagabond fallacy of running away from them, of moving on to a new place, and thus she persuaded herself that she was tranquil.

When I said that you stimulated me I meant, to be frank, that in noting your fallacies I was occasionally guided towards the truth.

The third, the artilleryman, on the contrary, struck Katavasov very favorably.

A low murmur of applause announced that the compliment of the tribe was favorably received.

That impression had been favorable.

I was experiencing an ordeal: a hand of fiery iron grasped my vitals.

His face was as fiery as ever; his eyes were as small, and rather deeper set.

Exhaustion of body had entirely subdued her spirit: our fiery Catherine was no better than a wailing child.

But that darkness was licked up by the fierce flames, which at intervals forked forth from the sooty flues, and illuminated every lofty rope in the rigging, as with the famed Greek fire.

He was still a foreigner, and he expected to remain one.

They are certainly less particular with a foreigner than with a Frenchman.

She had an idea that he would have to be a foreigner: not an Englishman, still less an Irishman.

If you leave, you forfeit your whole position forever.

It was right that I should pay the forfeit of my headlong passion.

A truant provincial was paying the forfeit of his disobedience, by being plundered of those very effects which had caused him to desert his place in the ranks.

Besides, he was now more firmly than ever under the protection of the fragile Melanie.

There is a kind of beauty so intense, yet so fragile, that we cannot bear to look at it.

How fragile and tender women are, he thought, the mere mention of war and harshness makes them faint.

Meanwhile, councils went on in the kitchen at home, fraught with almost insupportable aggravation to my exasperated spirit.

If I were engaged in any high undertaking or design, fraught with extensive utility to my fellow creatures, then could I live to fulfil it.

At last, arrayed for the purpose at a vast expense, I went to Miss Mills's, fraught with a declaration.

No, I suddenly found myself on the curtain, an actor, posturing and making futile gestures.

For the dozenth time, she ran out onto the porch but this time she did not go back to her futile packing.

Here was the end of the kindly, courteous house which had always welcomed her, the house where in futile dreams she had aspired to be mistress.

Not to hide the truth, Mistress Hester, my thoughts happen just now to be busy with the gentleman.

The letter was from this gentleman himself, and written in the true spirit of friendly accommodation.

The old gentleman died: his will was read, and like almost every other will, gave as much disappointment as pleasure.

In shape, he differs in some degree from the Huzza Porpoise, being of a less rotund and jolly girth; indeed, he is of quite a neat and gentleman-like figure.

It took but a few moments to release the gases pent up in the poor beast, and the two women heard the rush of wind and saw the roan visibly diminish in girth.

In the length he attains, and in his baleen, the Fin-back resembles the right whale, but is of a less portly girth, and a lighter colour, approaching to olive.

He could glean nothing from their faces; they might as well have been of stone.

A visit to the boy suggested itself as a means of gleaning new particulars; though it might be quite unproductive.

There were traces of his gore in that spot, and I covered them with garden-mould from the eye of man.

I must dip my hand again and again in the basin of blood and water, and wipe away the trickling gore.

The unicorn soon came towards him, and rushed directly on the tailor, as if it would gore him with its horn without more ado.

It was not well drawn; it was too finicking; the pillars in the background were grotesquely squat.

He was a tall and stately person, scrupulously dressed, with a drawn, thin face, and a nose which was grotesquely curved and long.

But what shocked me more than any signs of physical weakness was that his face was grotesquely criss-crossed with sticking-plaster, and that one large pad of it was fastened over his mouth.

This slope was trampled hard and bare, and washed out in winding gullies by the rain.

As I went along the road back to the bridge, I kept picking off little pieces of scaly chalk from the dried water gullies, and breaking them up in my hands.

Deep ruts and furrows were cut into the road where horses had dragged heavy guns along it and the red gullies on either side were deeply gashed by the wheels.

The change which she did heed was the erection of the schoolbuilding, with its cheerful brick walls, broad windows, gymnasium, classrooms for agriculture and cooking.

And here, except when I have the kids in gymnasium class, or when I'm chaperoning the basket-ball team on a trip out-of-town, I won't dare to move above a whisper.

Here she took out her handkerchief; but Elinor did not feel very compassionate.

He had rolled a handkerchief round his head, and his face was set and lowering in his sleep.

She convinced herself of it and cried into her handkerchief as if the very suggestion was more than she could endure.

The musketry sounded in long irregular surges that played havoc with his ears.

The havoc that months had previously wrought was now emulated by the inroads of hours.

Before the wedding the tailor was to catch him a wild boar that made great havoc in the forest, and the huntsmen should give him their help.

He composed heroic songs and began to write many a tale of enchantment and knightly adventure.

But I was restrained, when I thought of the heroic and suffering Elizabeth, whom I tenderly loved, and whose existence was bound up in mine.

He was obviously convinced, especially now after drinking, that he was performing a heroic action, and he bragged of it in the most unpleasant way.

The cuttlefish is no hindrance.

Princess Varvara is no help, but a hindrance.

You would be a hindrance to me, said Levin, trying to be cool.

Every man has a devouring passion in his heart, as every fruit has its worm; that of the telegraph man was horticulture.

Our agriculture and horticulture destroy a weed just here and there and cultivate perhaps a score or so of wholesome plants, leaving the greater number to fight out a balance as they can.

Over Descartian vortices you hover.

I will hover near and direct the steel aright.

It was of white marble, in shape something like a winged sphinx, but the wings, instead of being carried vertically at the sides, were spread so that it seemed to hover.

Charley profanely hinted they were humbug.

For my part, I think half this republican talk sheer humbug.

This relieved me; and once more, and finally as it seemed to me, I pronounced him in my heart, a humbug.

Then again, Stubb was one of those odd sort of humorists, whose jollity is sometimes so curiously ambiguous, as to put all inferiors on their guard in the matter of obeying them.

There never before was seen on earth such a wonderful hybrid race as was thus produced.

There were crack skaters there, showing off their skill, and learners clinging to chairs with timid, awkward movements, boys, and elderly people skating with hygienic motives.

And if that was hypocrisy, let Atlanta make the most of it.

That feeling was an intimate, familiar feeling, like a consciousness of hypocrisy, which she experienced in her relations with her husband.

I still stood absolutely dumfoundered at what appeared to me her miraculous self-possession and most inscrutable hypocrisy, when the cook entered.

They say he was the only support of an immense family.

The great vault brightened, like the dome of an immense lamp.

His constant height is of a piece with his immense abilities.

His one eye met hers with an impersonal animosity.

For a brief moment she wondered with impersonal curiosity what would be expected of a mistress.

He had been kindness itself during her miserable convalescence, but it was the kindness of an impersonal stranger.

They expressed the most implacable hatred.

The president called for the indictment, revised as we know, by the clever and implacable pen of Villefort.

He renewed against Danglars, Fernand, and Villefort the oath of implacable vengeance he had made in his dungeon.

Gradually, to be sure, the stress of the old thoughts would return; but at least they did not importune her waking hour.

Among these importunate signs was one that had caught the attention of the family by its pictures.

And to the importunity of their persisted questionings he had finally given in; and so it came to pass that every one now knew the shameful story of his wretched fate.

Basil was a little boy with impudent blue eyes and a turned-up nose, and Mary hated him.

When you take the liberty of calling me mean or base, or anything of that sort, you are an impudent beggar.

A bell rang, some young men, ugly and impudent, and at the same time careful of the impression they were making, hurried by.

The more I consider this mighty tail, the more do I deplore my inability to express it.

The inability thus to solace her outraged feelings gave her a paralyzing sense of insignificance.

Lily had taken up her work early in January: it was now two months later, and she was still being rebuked for her inability to sew spangles on a hat-frame.

Miss Josephine Sleary, as some very long and very narrow strips of printed bill announced, was then inaugurating the entertainments with her graceful equestrian Tyrolean flower-act.

I'd rather Bonnie was invited to eat dry bread in the Picards' miserable house or Mrs. Elsing's rickety barn than to be the belle of a Republican inaugural ball.

It might do incalculable mischief to his business prospects.

The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches.

A moment ago the night had been coldly empty; now it was incalculable, hot, treacherous.

When I refer to them, incidentally, it is only as a part of my progress.

It incidentally showed that her apparent languor did not arise from lack of force.

This peculiarity is strikingly evinced in the head, as in some part of this book will be incidentally shown.

We can understand his taking an evening stroll, but the ground was damp and the night inclement.

He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.

Magua shook his head incredulously.

Her host looked at her incredulously.

I laughed incredulously as Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his settee and blew little wavering rings of smoke up to the ceiling.

She at first lacked the depravity indispensable to shutting me up in mental darkness.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow.

There was no indispensable necessity for my communicating with Joe by letter, inasmuch as he sat beside me and we were alone.

It was a strong effort of the spirit of good, but it was ineffectual.

Miss Gertrude Farish, in fact, typified the mediocre and the ineffectual.

I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead and found a passage to life, aided only by one glimmering and seemingly ineffectual light.

Only the infidel sharks in the audacious seas may give ear to such words, when, with tornado brow, and eyes of red murder, and foam-glued lips, Ahab leaped after his prey.

Yet, brother, take my advice, and file your tongue to a little more courtesy than your habits of predominating over infidel captives and Eastern bondsmen have accustomed you.

Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.

I cannot conceive why everybody of his standing who visited at our house should always have put me through the same inflammatory process under similar circumstances.

Or at least if this were otherwise, there were not wanting other motives much more influential with him.

You have found in him an influential and kind friend, who will be kinder yet, I venture to predict, if you deserve it.

Then he became alarmed, and dared not stay any longer at Nimes, so he solicited a change of residence, and, as he was in reality very influential, he was nominated to Versailles.