6th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

I carried it, and repeated the message; anxiously watched by my employer.

This was all the account I got from Mrs. Fairfax of her employer and mine.

You have employed your time much better.

I was similarly equipped, and, following the stream, I made my way into the open air.

I silently shook my questioner, and at last succeeded in equipping her for departure.

On the second day Iron Hans equipped him as a white knight, and gave him a white horse.

Thus they talked and evil counsels prevailed.

Then it was that Jove devised evil against me.

Meanwhile Aegisthus here at home plotted his evil deed.

I will tell anybody who asks me questions, this exact tale.

The city is an exact square, each side of the wall being five hundred feet long.

None could have noticed the exact minute of his death, it was so entirely without a struggle.

Earnshaw had come out to examine the mischief he had caused, and he was then conveying the poor thing up-stairs.

Having opened, I emptied the whole contents into my apron, and took them with me to examine at leisure in my own chamber.

No one was very near, and running up to examine, he gave it a sly nudge with his toe, which put it just an inch on the right side.

Yes, I see too plainly that it does exist.

There could not exist in the world two men over whom Mr. Darcy could have such boundless influence.

Wuthering Heights and Mr. Heathcliff did not exist for her: she was a perfect recluse; and, apparently, perfectly contented.

Compression is needed to explode gunpowder.

Not to grieve a kind master, I learned to be less touchy; and, for the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.

"It's one of them horrid telegraph things, mum," she said, handling it as if she was afraid it would explode and do some damage.

Proud of this exploit, Vampa took the dead animal on his shoulders, and carried him to the farm.

After this exploit, I walked gently to and fro on the bed, to recover my breath and loss of spirits.

It will take us a long time to go the round of the farms and exploit the men, and all the time the suitors will be wasting your estate with impunity and without compunction.

You had better change your frock now; I will go with you and fasten it.

It had twelve beautifully made brooch pins of pure gold with which to fasten it.

THE harder Tom tried to fasten his mind on his book, the more his ideas wandered.

He was my late master: that is his portrait over the fireplace.

It made her jump and look around at the sofa by the fireplace, from which it seemed to come.

Coming down somewhat later than usual, I saw, by the sunbeams piercing the chinks of the shutters, Miss Catherine still seated near the fireplace.

Chateau-Renaud contented himself with tapping his boot with his flexible cane.

Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor.

His arms became stiff, his legs lost their flexibility, and he was almost breathless.

If the flood annoyed him, so much the better.

The burning Marseilles sun, which shot into the room through the open door, covered them with a flood of light.

Floating on with closed eyes and muffled ears, you neither see the rocks bristling not far off in the bed of the flood, nor hear the breakers boil at their base.

Quite absorbed in her work, Jo scribbled away till the last page was filled, when she signed her name with a flourish and threw down her pen, exclaiming.

Jo nodded and laughed, and flourished her broom as she called out.

All sorts of pleasant things happened about that time, for the new friendship flourished like grass in spring.

Before the Achaeans went to Troy, nine times was I in command of men and ships on foreign service, and I amassed much wealth.

Au revoir, madamoiselle, and Laurie bent as if to kiss her hand, in the foreign fashion, which became him better than many men.

But he enjoys it like a boy, Mrs. Kirke says, and takes it so good-naturedly that they all like him in spite of his foreign ways.

But I know the foundation is unjust.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation.

It was without any foundation that Le Messager yesterday announced the flight of Don Carlos and the revolt of Barcelona.

She skipped round the fountain garden, and up one walk and down another.

But the flower-beds were bare and wintry and the fountain was not playing.

He took his way, as Mary had done, through the door in the shrubbery and among the laurels and the fountain beds.

Go in now, you look half frozen.

There he sat quite benumbed and motionless; one would have imagined he was frozen to death.

I dreamt I was sleeping the last sleep by that sleeper, with my heart stopped and my cheek frozen against hers.

But for the future it shall be different.

in future I will try to take time by the fetlock and.

For the future we can live quite differently--we can do just as we like.

Then came the ghost of my dead mother Anticlea, daughter to Autolycus.

Then came also the ghost of Theban Teiresias, with his golden sceptre in his hand.

The first ghost that came was that of my comrade Elpenor, for he had not yet been laid beneath the earth.

A double movement of the globe he inhabited, and of which he could feel nothing, appeared to him perfectly impossible.

Every delicious fruit that the four quarters of the globe could provide was heaped in vases from China and jars from Japan.

But nature, it seems, has not been so expert a school-mistress; and these politer pleasures are entirely the productions of art and reason on our side of the globe.

From time to time chills ran through his whole body, and clutched his heart in a grasp of ice.

Still I did not answer, and still I writhed myself from his grasp: for I was still incredulous.

Madame Danglars had risen, and stood before the procureur, whose hands she wrung in her feeble grasp.

You gave him a cool nod, and just now you bowed and smiled in the politest way to Tommy Chamberlain, whose father keeps a grocery store.

The Duke's Daughter paid the butcher's bill, A Phantom Hand put down a new carpet, and the Curse of the Coventrys proved the blessing of the Marches in the way of groceries and gowns.

The Mouse only growled in reply.

They growled a response and went on digging.

He was still cursing when a loud growling was heard, and a black bear came trotting towards them out of the forest.

He came in gorgeous array, with plumed cap, red cloak, chestnut lovelocks, a guitar, and the boots, of course.

Their outward garments were adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars; interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords, and many other instruments of music, unknown to us in Europe.

However, I had the courage to rise and draw my hanger, and attack them in the air.

One of them came up almost to my face, whereupon I rose in a fright, and drew out my hanger to defend myself.

Then she set me on a table, where I showed her my hanger all bloody, and wiping it on the lappet of my coat, returned it to the scabbard.

Cuddle your cats and get over your headache, Bethy.

Jo had burned the skin off her nose boating, and got a raging headache by reading too long.

Beth had a headache and lay on the sofa, trying to comfort herself with the cat and three kittens.

Lizzy is only headstrong in such matters as these.

I was a boy then, headstrong and violent, and it took a hard lesson to show me my mistake.

Though I cannot say I made a gentle nurse, and Joseph and the master were no better, and though our patient was as wearisome and headstrong as a patient could be, she weathered it through.

But little Tuk was no longer lying down: all at once he was on horseback.

Danglars turned to the left; another man on horseback was galloping on that side.

My stables are at your command, viscount; but you will kill yourself by riding on horseback.

Amy found that housework and art did not go well together, and returned to her mud pies.

She is a capital nurse, and you may trust the precious babies to her while you do more housework.

Danglars was balancing his monthly accounts, and it was perhaps not the most favorable moment for finding him in his best humor.

So Laurie did his best, and sang delightfully, being in a particularly lively humor, for to the Marches he seldom showed the moody side of his character.

Jo was not in a good humor, and the perverse fit returned, but Amy, who had virtuously done her duty, kept her temper and pleased everybody, was in a most angelic frame of mind.

The humorous poem was admirably recited, and the speaker much applauded.

So Laurie did his best, and sang delightfully, being in a particularly lively humor, for to the Marches he seldom showed the moody side of his character.

Jo was not in a good humor, and the perverse fit returned, but Amy, who had virtuously done her duty, kept her temper and pleased everybody, was in a most angelic frame of mind.

A lively imagination soon settled it all.

The Blefuscudians, who had not the least imagination of what I intended, were at first confounded with astonishment.

Tom was suffering in reality, now, so handsomely was his imagination working, and so his groans had gathered quite a genuine tone.

Not these impaired the sacred name.

They were very curious to know my story, but I gave them very little satisfaction, and they all conjectured that my misfortunes had impaired my reason.

"Oh, gentlemen, you see it is all useless, and that my father's mind is really impaired," said Villefort.

If I had anything by means of which I could inflate the lungs," said d'Avrigny, looking around him, "perhaps I might prevent suffocation.

She was a subscriber for all the "Health" periodicals and phrenological frauds; and the solemn ignorance they were inflated with was breath to her nostrils.

The big chamber was the scene of many innocent revels.

There you shall live a happy, and guarded, and most innocent life.

But if you are really innocent and ignorant, I must be more explicit.