6th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

Then the count knelt down by the side of the bed, which death had converted into an altar.

He twined himself up to her, as she half knelt by the settle, and converted her shoulder into a support.

He will increase in strength and honor by struggling with adversity, which he will convert into prosperity.

I present them; but my correspondent has disappeared.

Mr. Eyre has been the Funchal correspondent of his house for some years.

A correspondent at Yanina informs us of a fact of which until now we had remained in ignorance.

I regained my couch, but never thought of sleep.

My couch had no thorns in it that night; my solitary room no fears.

I said my evening prayers at its conclusion, and then chose my couch.

I scarcely have the courage to do it.

I had no courage to think that at first, heavenly kind as was your welcome to me.

Come what will, you may be sure I shall have both courage and strength if they be needed.

He did it with a courtesy that redounded to his credit.

And Mr. Laurence offered her his arm with old-fashioned courtesy.

Danglars; the count, in return for his gentlemanly bow, received a formal though graceful courtesy, while Lucien exchanged with the count a sort of distant recognition, and with Danglars a free and easy nod.

All the village flocked to the courthouse the next morning, for this was to be the great day.

He has consumption of the spine, poor creature.

I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.

I wondered, as I looked at this fair creature: I admired her with my whole heart.

He and his aids now withdrew behind the curtain: the other party, which was headed by Colonel Dent, sat down on the crescent of chairs.

Presently the crew came up, and the goddess spoke encouragingly to each of them.

She took his shape, and went round the town to each one of the crew, telling them to meet at the ship by sundown.

The crew rejoiced greatly at seeing those of us who had escaped death, but wept for the others whom the Cyclops had killed.

Most strangers thought he must be either half mad or a man with some hidden crime on his soul.

This was true: and while he spoke my very conscience and reason turned traitors against me, and charged me with crime in resisting him.

As you hope ever to be forgiven, Mr. Rivers, the high crime and misdemeanour of spoiling a sanded kitchen, tell me what I wish to know.

When the last crisp slice of bacon was gone, and the last allowance of corn pone devoured, the boys stretched themselves out on the grass, filled with contentment.

So out came the tarlatan, looking older, limper, and shabbier than ever beside Sallie's crisp new one.

You haven't half buttoned one cuff, do it at once.

Jo laughed, and Meg sharply ordered her not to talk, then amiably promised to make her hair curl, and fell asleep to dream of living in her castle in the air.

Put one in mine then, that I wish all my curls cut off, and given round to my friends.

Meg wanted a few curls about her face, and Jo undertook to pinch the papered locks with a pair of hot tongs.

So the curtain falls upon Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy.

Then the curtain fell, and the audience reposed and ate candy while discussing the merits of the play.

I beg your pardon for being so rude, but sometimes you forget to put down the curtain at the window where the flowers are.

It is hooped round with a hollow cylinder of adamant, four feet yards in diameter, placed horizontally, and supported by eight adamantine feet, each six yards high.

The servants cut our bread into cones, cylinders, parallelograms, and several other mathematical figures.

And dangerous as the foamy race.

Ladies, keep off, or I shall wax dangerous.

And dangerous he looked: his black eyes darted sparks.

You always were my docile daughter.

But I suppose your daughter has quite forgotten you.

daughter when I could boast as high a name and vast a.

It was getting gray daylight now.

It was broad daylight before he found himself fairly abreast the island bar.

Something of daylight still lingered, and the moon was waxing bright: I could see him plainly.

Give them all of my dear love and a kiss.

Not for many months, dear, unless he is sick.

No, dear, run along, and bring me some coffee.

I declare to my nephew, Guido Spada.

Why, there is Ned Moffat, I do declare.

Jane will be quite an old maid soon, I declare.

The young men wished to decline, but they could find no good reason for refusing an offer which was so agreeable to them.

I feared my hopes were too bright to be realised; and I had enjoyed so much bliss lately that I imagined my fortune had passed its meridian, and must now decline.

I declined accepting more than was my due.

The fat turkey was a sight to behold, when Hannah sent him up, stuffed, browned, and decorated.

The decorations of the boudoir had then been left entirely to Madame Danglars and Lucien Debray.

For an instant it remained motionless as one of the stone decorations of the building, then after a long sigh of disappointment the head disappeared.

There was a door and Mary pushed it slowly open and they passed in together, and then Mary stood and waved her hand round defiantly.

Meg lifted her eyebrows, but Jo scowled at her defiantly and said at once, "Of course you may."

Jo can't prevent my seeing her, and I shall stay and do it as long as I like, interrupted Laurie in a defiant tone.

To Catherine and Lydia, neither the letter nor its writer were in any degree interesting.

As yet, she cannot even be certain of the degree of her own regard nor of its reasonableness.

With that refreshment I could perhaps regain a degree of energy: without it, it would be difficult to proceed.

All, you know, is prepared for prompt departure: to-morrow you shall go.

I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death.

And he proceeded to inform us that his departure from England was now definitively fixed for the ensuing year.

This diamond was to have been shared among his friends.

Caderousse, who touched the diamond, withdrew his hand.

To leave behind you the diamond you have on your finger.

Dantes asked to be removed from his present dungeon into another; for a change, however disadvantageous, was still a change, and would afford him some amusement.

It may perhaps be pleasant," replied Charlotte, "to be able to impose on the public in such a case; but it is sometimes a disadvantage to be so very guarded.

Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country.

You have all done more for me than I can ever thank you for, except by doing my best not to disappoint you.

He hesitated, and then snatched it from my hold; as if he fancied I only intended to tempt and disappoint him.

You disapprove of me still, I see.

But his self-love would endure no further torment: I heard, and not altogether disapprovingly, a manual check given to her saucy tongue.

I heard the name of Mr. Brocklehurst pronounced by some lips; at which Miss Miller shook her head disapprovingly; but she made no great effort to check the general wrath; doubtless she shared in it.

Perhaps it will be as well if you discourage his coming here so very often.

But the Judge had a most discouraging way of fluctuating.

They searched everywhere once more, and then sat down discouraged.

Ellen, tell him how disgraceful this conduct is.

In fact as an imitation of a boy who was a confirmed invalid he was a disgraceful sight.

That deposit may be at any moment withdrawn, and if I had employed it for another purpose, I should bring on me a disgraceful bankruptcy.

"I am not sorry you lost them, for you broke the rules, and deserved some punishment for disobedience," was the severe reply, which rather disappointed the young lady, who expected nothing but sympathy.

The doctor said he must have fresh air and if he wants us to take him out no one dare disobey him.

This was the first time Morrel had ever so spoken, but he said it in a tone of paternal kindness, and Julie did not dare to disobey.

But the men disobeyed my orders, took to their own devices, and ravaged the land of the Egyptians, killing the men, and taking their wives and children captive.

Mr. Kenneth was perplexed to pronounce of what disorder the master died.

I strode past her, and ascended to the sleeping chamber, which presented an appearance of the wildest disorder.

I should not have spoken so if I had known her true condition, but I could not get rid of the notion that she acted a part of her disorder.

The gloomy building rose from the bosom of the ocean with imposing majesty and seemed to dominate the scene.

Franz was less enthusiastic; but the count exercised over him also the ascendency a strong mind always acquires over a mind less domineering.

Let us hasten to say that in private the genial side descended to the level of the other, so that generally the indulgent man disappeared to give place to the brutal husband and domineering father.

When he got upon his feet at last and moved feebly downtown, a melancholy change had come over everything and every creature.

Miss Jo owes me one, so you are finished, cried Fred excitedly, as they all drew near to see the finish.

They drew up to the table, exchanged their handkerchiefs for napkins, and in ten minutes were all right again.

Miss Kate and Mr. Brooke, Meg, and Ned declined, but Fred, Sallie, Jo, and Laurie piled and drew, and the lot fell to Laurie.

Dantes would have shouted, but he knew that the wind would drown his voice.

But the duck swam quickly to her, seized her head in its beak and drew her into the water, and there the old witch had to drown.

Father, you know very well that the general was not a man to drown himself in despair, and people do not bathe in the Seine in the month of January.

"I feel as if there had been an earthquake," said Jo, as their neighbors went home to breakfast, leaving them to rest and refresh themselves.

Yes, he has had an excellent education, and has much talent.

He took her education entirely on himself, and made it an amusement.

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men.

Tom was therefore elevated to a place with the Judge and the other elect, and the great news was announced from headquarters.

But my choice and constant companions should be a set of my own immortal brotherhood; among whom, I would elect a dozen from the most ancient, down to my own contemporaries.

Into these pavilions he admitted the elect, and there, says Marco Polo, gave them to eat a certain herb, which transported them to Paradise, in the midst of ever-blooming shrubs, ever-ripe fruit, and ever-lovely virgins.

Tom was therefore elevated to a place with the Judge and the other elect, and the great news was announced from headquarters.

They agreed to get together and fix a day as soon as they could, and then we elected Tom Sawyer first captain and Jo Harper second captain of the Gang, and so started home.

But my choice and constant companions should be a set of my own immortal brotherhood; among whom, I would elect a dozen from the most ancient, down to my own contemporaries.

An intervening elevation of land hid the light.

His nature was not changed by one hour of solemn prayer: it was only elevated.

He wanted to train me to an elevation I could never reach; it racked me hourly to aspire to the standard he uplifted.

The author diverts the emperor, and his nobility of both sexes, in a very uncommon manner.

The emperor of Lilliput, attended by several of the nobility, comes to see the author in his confinement.

When this inventory was read over to the emperor, he directed me, although in very gentle terms, to deliver up the several particulars.