12th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

Well, amiable Corsican, let us suppose it is providence.

It is a miracle, it is a providence that we have not been discovered.

His death was regarded by the slaves as the result of a merciful providence.

I will be cool, persevering, and prudent.

She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was everything but prudent.

Meg, dear, be prudent, watch over your sisters, consult Hannah, and in any perplexity, go to Mr. Laurence.

The doctor seemed seized with a qualm of faintness: he shut his mouth tight and nodded.

Scarlett had no qualm of conscience as she watched them but only a feeling of vast relief that she had made her escape.

And at the very moment of that vain-glorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most deadly shuddering.

His hard little face looked flintier than ever and Scarlett was in a quandary.

That old-fashioned revelling in the general situation grows less and less possible as we uncover the defects of natural laws, and see the quandary that man is in by their operation.

As night approached, it proving impossible to quell her insubordination by rebuke or threats of punishment, Master Brackett, the jailer, thought fit to introduce a physician.

Catherine quelled her lamentations also, took a seat opposite, and looked solemnly into the fire.

It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion.

Of a sudden another broke out in a querulous way like a man who has mislaid his hat.

Phelps was still weak after his long illness, and his misfortune made him querulous and nervous.

Nothing was stirring except a brindled, grey cat, which crept from the ashes, and saluted me with a querulous mew.

They seem to radiate a force and vitality that made her feel smaller and weaker even than she was.

He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room.

Some were distant, and stood in a dense atmosphere, so that bundles of pale straw-like beams radiated around them in the shape of a fan.

Perhaps it would develop into a very radical anarchy.

For a moment it seemed to me that there must be some radical mistake in my calculations.

When he reached the point about the fundamental and radical law, his opponent jumped up and began to protest.

My aunt said this in a sprightly way, and gave me a kiss to ratify the blessing.

Peggotty was not slow to respond, and ratify the treaty of friendship by giving me one of her best hugs.

As Ashley had prophesied, there had been hell to pay since the legislature refused to ratify the amendment.

Birthdays are of no importance to a rational being.

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

That is from every point of view the most rational course for married people who find themselves in the position you are in.

He ate in a ravenous way that was very disagreeable, and all his actions were uncouth, noisy, and greedy.

They came back to camp wonderfully refreshed, glad-hearted, and ravenous; and they soon had the camp-fire blazing up again.

There now, and he pushed the rubber tip of the bottle into the nuzzling mouth and the lamb began to suck it with ravenous ecstasy.

Your head is all I could ask, for that white bonnet with the rose is quite ravishing.

The ravisher stopped suddenly, his knees bent under him, and he fell with Teresa in his arms.

There was a simultaneous sigh, which created quite a little gust, as the last hope fled, and the treat was ravished from their longing lips.

I turned frantically to the Time Machine, and strove hard to readjust it.

In the end, wisely and carefully we shall readjust the balance of animal and vegetable life to suit our human needs.

That was the secret of his way of readjusting her vision.

Lily thought she understood the reason of the rebuff.

But every rebuff stored up new energy of will in her.

He patted her shoulder timidly, gingerly at first, and when she did not rebuff him he became bolder and patted her firmly.

Sometimes she had gone into the kitchen to administer a tardy rebuke to the cook.

Before anyone could rebuke him, his grizzled head went up sharply and he rose swiftly.

The man, somewhat crest-fallen by the rebuke he had received, repeated what the concierge had said.

But still another inquiry remains; one often agitated by the more recondite Nantucketers.

But to learn all about these recondite matters, your best way is at once to descend into the blubber-room, and have a long talk with its inmates.

All Georgia wanted was to be let alone so the state could recuperate.

Too it was important that he should have time for physical recuperation.

He sought to tread water, in order to rest himself; but the sea was too violent, and he felt that he could not make use of this means of recuperation.

Miss Ophelia, after passing on her reformatory tour through all the other parts of the establishment, now entered the kitchen.

It was fully realised that though the human beings had been defeated in the Battle of the Cowshed they might make another and more determined attempt to recapture the farm and reinstate Mr. Jones.

Rhett's great love for his child had gone far toward reinstating him in public opinion.

She had accomplished, before leaving, the first step toward her reinstatement in Mrs. Bry's good graces.

When I asked him if the remittance had come, he pressed my hand and departed.

The excitement came back upon her like a remittent fever.

But I have turned the matter as I could; you are safe if you renounce Rebecca.

But while they freely waive a ceremonial like this, they do by no means renounce their claim to more solid tribute.

The picture of his wife not letting him go was so pleasant that he was ready to renounce the delights of looking upon bears forever.

When the house is renovated and refurnished, all that he will need will be a wife to make it complete.

All the year round they had been serving as cogs in the great packing machine; and now was the time for the renovating of it, and the replacing of damaged parts.

They were delighted with the renovation and decorations of their rooms; with the new drapery, and fresh carpets, and rich tinted china vases: they expressed their gratification ungrudgingly.

The band was reorganized, and provided by the Commercial Club with uniforms of purple and gold.

The business of reorganizing the farming of his land absorbed him as completely as though there would never be anything else in his life.

Suddenly he was going about proposing the reorganization of the tennis association, and writing names in a fifteen-cent note-book bought for the purpose at Dyer's.

But Levin had not the heart to reprove him.

Joseph remained to hector over tenants and labourers; and because it was his vocation to be where he had plenty of wickedness to reprove.

But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove.

She spoke with the intention of making him see that, if his words implied a tentative allusion to her private affairs, she was prepared to meet and repudiate it.

In his own case, Alexey Alexandrovitch saw that a legal divorce, that is to say, one in which only the guilty wife would be repudiated, was impossible of attainment.

This left me no course but to regret that I had been "betrayed into a warmth which," and on the whole to repudiate, as untenable, the idea that I was to be found anywhere.

In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down-going men.

Avoiding the Blue Boar, I put up at an inn of minor reputation down the town, and ordered some dinner.

It is not a fortunate discovery, and is not likely ever to enrich me in reputation, station, fortune, anything.

Edward was not entirely without hopes of some favourable change in his mother towards him; and on THAT he rested for the residue of their income.

When she took the paste out to bake it, she left smears of dough sticking to the sides of the measure, put the measure on the shelf behind the stove, and let this residue ferment.

My aunt being resolute, I went out and got the ale myself.

We exhorted him to be resolute in this, and left my aunt to observe him.

When I awoke next morning, I was resolute to declare my passion to Dora, and know my fate.

I obtained from my father a respite of some weeks.

Deprived of this respite, I should have sunk under my hardships.

My dear Albert, one word, for I must give poor Lucien a respite.

Mr. Peggotty touched me, and whispered with much awe and reverence.

Satan dropped it there, I take it, intending a scurrilous jest against your reverence.

While her mother was attacking her father, she tried to restrain her mother, so far as filial reverence would allow.

Morcerf did not pursue the subject, and Monte Cristo himself fell into a silent reverie.

Helen sighed as her reverie fled, and getting up, obeyed the monitor without reply as without delay.

When at last she left you, you lapsed at once into deep reverie: you betook yourself slowly to pace the gallery.

Mr. Micawber promptly resumed his letter, glad to revert to a performance with which he was so highly satisfied.

Which, never failing to revert to his kind friends, and the opinion they must long ago have formed of him, were sad indeed.

The manual rites then ceased and all present reverted to the more spiritual part of the ceremonies.

Thus I might proclaim myself a madman, but not revoke the sentence passed upon my wretched victim.

The rhapsody welled up within me, like blood from an inward wound, and gushed out.

The tree became a rhapsody, a quivering cacophony, a whizz and vibrant rapture, branches, leaves, birds syllabling discordantly life, life, life, without measure, without stop devouring the tree.

The blind was drawn but I found a rift at the sill.

Tom got into this and held his candle as far under the rock as he could, but said he could not see to the end of the rift.

The youth, peering once through a sudden rift in a cloud, saw a brown mass of troops, interwoven and magnified until they appeared to be thousands.

As she resumed the ritual, she opened her eyes briefly and cast a quick glance around the room.

When Vida asked her to take charge of a group of Camp Fire Girls, she obeyed, and had definite pleasure out of the Indian dances and ritual and costumes.

Towards evening, when I felt assured that all his performances and rituals must be over, I went up to his room and knocked at the door; but no answer.

You know as well as I do that the man is a rogue.

The little rogue thought I had not seen her, and, drawing back, she took her former station by the window, quite demurely.

But in the interval the rogue had learned to imitate you, and his position was therefore secure, as I presume that nobody in the office had ever set eyes upon you.

If we face such numbers as this, you may have bitter cause to rue your coming, and your revenge.

Yet, the smell of a Yahoo continuing very offensive, I always keep my nose well stopped with rue, lavender, or tobacco leaves.

I was at last bold enough to walk the street in his company, but kept my nose well stopped with rue, or sometimes with tobacco.

At this sally, the boys laughed.

Dorset greeted the sally with delight.

Let us summon our people, and sally forth upon them.

For even satire is a form of sympathy.

In its venerable one coat lay a certain vein of satire on human vanity in clothes.

The affair, as it will be reported, will cover us with shame; for in a society such as ours satire inflicts a painful and incurable wound.

I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through.

Venn now bethought himself of his clothes, which were saturated with water to the weight of lead.

His left arm, rudely bandaged in a shawl, hung heavy and useless at his side; the bandage was saturated with blood.

We were so exceedingly genteel, that our scope was very limited.

Give him his scope in this matter, for thou canst not control him.

It will be of far wider scope, and will touch on almost all questions.

I will fight this scrimmage with warriors of my own color.

I should be sorry to think they had, though this is a spot that stout courage might hold for a smart scrimmage.

There have been scrimmages atween one or two of their outlyers and myself; but that is neither here nor there.

Selden had retained her hand, and continued to scrutinize her with a strange sense of foreboding.

In a few moments the young girl had attracted the attention of the whole house, and even the occupants of the boxes leaned forward to scrutinize her magnificent diamonds.

He looked at her and hastily turned away, scrutinizing other faces.

He kept drifting to the rear of the schoolhouse, again and again, to sear his eyeballs with the hateful spectacle there.

It was sensuality sharp and searing as fire, burning the soul to tinder.

A glare brighter than a dozen suns dazzled their eyes, scorching heat seared their skins and the roaring, cracking and crashing beat upon their ears in painful waves.

de Villefort has secluded himself.

He imagined secluded spots where he could fall and be unmolested.

The smallest boy or the most secluded grandam could tell you whether No.

A circle of a few hundred feet in circumference was drawn, and each of the party took a segment for his portion.

It showed the barrow to be the segment of a globe, as perfect as on the day when it was thrown up, even the little ditch remaining from which the earth was dug.

It was the Indian, whose dark silhouette appeared suddenly upon his blind.

The sun was low across the new-plowed fields and the tall woods across the river were looming blackly in silhouette.

His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against the blind.

The movement, like the feeling, had been simultaneous and general.

There was a simultaneous sigh, which created quite a little gust, as the last hope fled, and the treat was ravished from their longing lips.

The three gentlemen retreated simultaneously.

His voice was soft but there was a vibrant note in it, and looking up into his dark face she saw in it none of the skepticism, the jeering humor she knew so well.

Suddenly I wasn't thinking of Daisy and Gatsby any more but of this clean, hard, limited person who dealt in universal skepticism and who leaned back jauntily just within the circle of my arm.

The skirmish fire increased to a long clattering sound.

And then there occurred the first skirmish between the new party and the old.

Each station, each crossroad the conductor called was the name of a battle, the site of a skirmish.

There were other signs of removal about, with queer narrow footprints like those I could imagine made by a sloth.

Everything was dead quiet, and it looked late, and smelt late.

The wet of the rain spurting up in tiny drops could be smelt in the air.

Jim smelt it and bit it and rubbed it, and said he would manage so the hair-ball would think it was good.