8th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

Germain, a glass of sherry and a biscuit.

The major made a wise choice; he took the full glass and a biscuit.

The count told Baptistin to leave the plate within reach of his guest, who began by sipping the Alicante with an expression of great satisfaction, and then delicately steeped his biscuit in the wine.

Maximilian crossed the canal and entered the Rue Meslay by the boulevards.

Having crossed Paris, it passed through the Faubourg du Temple, then leaving the exterior boulevards, it reached the cemetery.

The weather was dull and stormy, a cold wind shook the few remaining yellow leaves from the boughs of the trees, and scattered them among the crowd which filled the boulevards.

The palings of Rosings Park was their boundary on one side.

The park paling was still the boundary on one side, and she soon passed one of the gates into the ground.

The Reindeer and the young hind leaped along beside them, and accompanied them to the boundary of the country.

Mr. Brooke sent a bulletin every day, and as the head of the family, Meg insisted on reading the dispatches, which grew more cheerful as the week passed.

Villefort had calculated rightly.

He had calculated on these first objections: he was not irritated by them.

The Cadets paraded in a style calculated to kill the late member with envy.

I myself have seen two or three candidates break a limb.

I will candidly explain the reason of both, and I trust to your goodness to pardon me.

Next to the merit of infallibility which you appear to possess, I rank that of candidly acknowledging a fault.

There was a small log raft there which they meant to capture.

Regardless of this warning, she captured his closed hand and its contents again.

You think he is tracked, pursued, captured; he is advancing as rapidly as his own eagles.

Tom partly uncovered a dismal caricature of a house with two gable ends to it and a corkscrew of smoke issuing from the chimney.

Andrea Cavalcanti found his tilbury waiting at the door; the groom, in every respect a caricature of the English fashion, was standing on tiptoe to hold a large iron-gray horse.

At length they arrived at the cemetery.

Grass and weeds grew rank over the whole cemetery.

On landing, the count turned towards the cemetery, where he felt sure of finding Morrel.

So when the three servants came, nothing was there but a church, with a chandelier in it.

When they got home, the cook asked if they had not found them; so they said no, they had found nothing but a church, and there was a chandelier in it.

At the play, he sits in the great chandelier and burns in bright flames, so that people think it is really a flame, but they soon discover it is something else.

"By chemists and persons who have a taste for chemistry," said Monte Cristo carelessly.

D'Avrigny followed the invalid, wrote a prescription, ordered Villefort to take a cabriolet, go in person to a chemist's to get the prescribed medicine, bring it himself, and wait for him in his daughter's room.

Mr. Bingley was unaffectedly civil in his answer, and forced his younger sister to be civil also, and say what the occasion required.

In pompous nothings on his side, and civil assents on that of his cousins, their time passed till they entered Meryton.

Perhaps he had been civil only because he felt himself at ease; yet there had been that in his voice which was not like ease.

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

There is some hot coffee for you on the stove.

No one could resist her persuasive nods, or the fragrant invitation issuing from the nose of the coffee pot.

The materials are all prepared; there only wants a movement to combine them.

This calmness of Busoni, combined with his irony and boldness, staggered Caderousse.

TOM presented himself before Aunt Polly, who was sitting by an open window in a pleasant rearward apartment, which was bedroom, breakfast-room, dining-room, and library, combined.

commemorate his name by so uncommon an action.

If we wanted to conceal the noble action this purse commemorates, we should not expose it thus to view.

At the door he met the commissary of police, who was waiting for him.

The commissary took up an iron mallet and knocked thrice, every blow seeming to Dantes as if struck on his heart.

Brooke is commander in chief, I am commissary general, the other fellows are staff officers, and you, ladies, are company.

I increased in wickedness till I committed crime.

You and papa have committed a great sin against me.

She loves him; it was for his sake she has committed these crimes.

These civil commotions were constantly fomented by the monarchs of Blefuscu; and when they were quelled, the exiles always fled for refuge to that empire.

Mr. Darcy has not authorised me to make his communication public.

Mary and Kitty were both with Mrs. Bennet: one communication would, therefore, do for all.

When her mother went up to her dressing-room at night, she followed her, and made the important communication.

Gifted men found a companion in him.

The latter was much more agreeable than his companion expected.

He can be a conversible companion if he thinks it worth his while.

The death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison of this.

My brother Edward, who inherits nothing from his mother, will, therefore, be poor in comparison with me.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.

Jane was beyond competition her favourite child.

He was her dear Wickham on every occasion; no one was to be put in competition with him.

and his predecessors; and he saw that the complement was not half empty.

Accept my thanks for the compliment you are paying me.

I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere.

You must give me leave to judge for myself, and pay me the compliment of believing what I say.

At last there was Waterloo, and Morrel came no more; he had done all that was in his power, and any fresh attempt would only compromise himself uselessly.

Doubtless Signor Pastrini found this pleasantry compromising, for he only answered half the question, and then he spoke to Franz, as the only one likely to listen with attention.

Demi paused to consider the new relationship before he compromised himself by the rash acceptance of a bribe, which took the tempting form of a family of wooden bears from Berne.

The look of the minister of police was turned with concentrated spite on Villefort, who bent his head in modest triumph.

At these words it was still possible to observe in Monte Cristo the concentrated look, changing color, and slight trembling of the eyelid that show emotion.

Then new concessions to the people, then a constitution, then liberty.

Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you.

It was a painful, but not an improbable, conjecture.

Linton will conjecture how it is, and trouble himself no further about you.

She would not be burdened with her society for any consideration.

Danglars has sacrificed them to the selfish consideration of gaining some thousands of paltry francs.

Then the foolish criminal is taken, imprisoned, interrogated, confronted, confounded, condemned, and cut off by hemp or steel; or if she be a woman of any consideration, they lock her up for life.

I admired the strength, comeliness, and speed of the inhabitants; and such a constellation of virtues, in such amiable persons, produced in me the highest veneration.