7th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

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.

The learning of this people is very defective, consisting only in morality, history, poetry, and mathematics, wherein they must be allowed to excel.

I am not going out under human guidance, subject to the defective laws and erring control of my feeble fellow-worms: my king, my lawgiver, my captain, is the All-perfect.

I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has no defect.

My work, which had appeared so vague, so hopelessly diffuse, condensed itself as he proceeded, and assumed a definite form under his shaping hand.

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

Moreover, before I definitively resolve on quitting England, I will know for certain whether I cannot be of greater use by remaining in it than by leaving it.

In a police-office, consequently, we find copying-clerks among many other scribes of various denominations, of which, it seems, our hero was one.

For two months the fugitives remained absent; in those two months, Mrs. Linton encountered and conquered the worst shock of what was denominated a brain fever.

He showed me also, in one of his books, the figures of the sun, moon, and stars, the zodiac, the tropics, and polar circles, together with the denominations of many plains and solids.

If he was to have any rest, her husband must once more descend into the garden.

Both he and his company would often descend to ask me questions, and receive my answers.

I now ventured to descend: it was deep dusk; I retired into a corner and sat down on the floor.

Almost desperate, I asked for half a cake; she again refused.

More desolate, more desperate than ever, it seemed from contrast.

By the way, Jo, I think that little Parker is really getting desperate about Amy.

Her mind was less difficult to develop.

My duty will be to develop these germs: surely I shall find some happiness in discharging that office.

Robins are not like human beings; their muscles are always exercised from the first and so they develop themselves in a natural manner.

As the wafer digested, the tincture mounted to his brain, bearing the proposition along with it.

This scheme I went over twice, thrice; it was then digested in my mind; I had it in a clear practical form: I felt satisfied, and fell asleep.

Ere long, I had reason to congratulate myself on the course of wholesome discipline to which I had thus forced my feelings to submit.

Dantes, trained in discipline, knew that nothing would be more absurd than to question subordinates, who were forbidden to reply; and so he remained silent.

I was curious to know how this prince, to whose dominions there is no access from any other country, came to think of armies, or to teach his people the practice of military discipline.

Moreover, he wanted to assure himself that Huck had remained discreet.

Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongues when they have girls to manage.

I knew such an idea would shock, perhaps offend you; and you were so discreet, and so thoroughly modest and sensible, I hoped you might be trusted to protect yourself.

Aye, that is just like your formality and discretion.

Another may be as handsome as a god, but his good looks are not crowned with discretion.

We may as well wait, perhaps, till the circumstance occurs before we discuss the discretion of his behaviour thereupon.

I must tell you that he suffers from a very dangerous disease.

I fancied the discontent of age and disease arose from his family disagreements; as he would have it that it did: really, you know, sir, it was in his sinking frame.

Now, the cabbage had not the slightest appearance of disease in the world, and the rabbit had not the smallest distrust; yet, five minutes afterwards, the rabbit was dead.

But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence.

In this disguise he entered the city of Troy, and no one said anything to him.

Perhaps this concealment, this disguise was beneath me; it is done, however, and it was done for the best.

Then do your best to keep our name free from dishonor.

The Flea jumped so high that nobody could see where he went to; so they all asserted he had not jumped at all; and that was dishonorable.

"Blood washes out dishonor," said Morrel.

Dantes observed, however, that Faria, in spite of the relief his society afforded, daily grew sadder; one thought seemed incessantly to harass and distract his mind.

Besides, I believe, between ourselves, she did this in order to distract her mind, that she might forget; and she only filled her head in order to alleviate the weight on her heart.

I am too ill, and wretched and distracted; but I wish you to be happy and comfortable.

But I am not going to disturb you; you will want to be trying on your dress, I expect.

In spite of the new sorrow, it was a very happy time, so happy that Laurie could not bear to disturb it by a word.

With many thanks, they said good night and crept in, hoping to disturb no one, but the instant their door creaked, two little nightcaps bobbed up, and two sleepy but eager voices cried out.

Aegyptius, a man bent double with age, and of infinite experience, was the first to speak.

I folded my shawl double, and spread it over me for a coverlet; a low, mossy swell was my pillow.

I should not be a man if this womanly helplessness did not just give you a double attractiveness in my eyes.

They will all be revealed tonight when the Christmas Tree is lit, no doubt.

She lay in that heavy stupor, alike unconscious of hope and joy, doubt and danger.

I doubt not that he too lifts his hands in prayer, for man cannot live without God in the world.

And while she closed with a happy Scriptural flourish, he "hooked" a doughnut.

He descended fifteen steps, and the door of a dungeon was opened, and he was thrust in.

When the king saw him he fell into a passion, and ordered him to be cast into the deepest dungeon.

And so Dantes, after the Hundred Days and after Waterloo, remained in his dungeon, forgotten of earth and heaven.

In this room, too, there was a cabinet piano, quite new and of superior tone; also an easel for painting and a pair of globes.

You can dress for both, and be as elegant as you please.

I never in my life saw anything more elegant than their dresses.

Her figure was elegant, and she walked well; but Darcy, at whom it was all aimed, was still inflexibly studious.

They all saw the embarrassment and the emotion.

They were too much absorbed in their mutual joy to suffer embarrassment.

Somewhat daunted by this reception, Jo hesitated on the threshold, murmuring in much embarrassment.

He was quite prepared for any such encounter.

She possessed eyes whose gaze I delighted to encounter.

Another encounter between you and the master would kill her altogether.

Sometimes a war is entered upon, because the enemy is too strong; and sometimes, because he is too weak.

But it was decreed by fortune, my perpetual enemy, that so great a felicity should not fall to my share.

He could not tell what I meant by secrets of state, where an enemy, or some rival nation, were not in the case.

As we walked home, I would fain have enlightened my charge on the characters of the people we had quitted: but she got it into her head that I was prejudiced against them.

The excellent papa labored under the delusion that he was, and reveled in long discussions with the kindred spirit, till a chance remark of his more observing grandson suddenly enlightened him.

Here the gentlemen interposed with earnest petitions to be further enlightened on these two last-named points; but they got only blushes, ejaculations, tremors, and titters, in return for their importunity.

I think I must admit so fair a guest when it asks entrance to my heart.

It is impossible where I live; there is no private entrance to my rooms.

When we reached the harbour we found it land-locked under steep cliffs, with a narrow entrance between two headlands.

The envelope itself was likewise full.

Mr. Craven read the letter twice before he put it back in its envelope.

Behind the door-keeper walked a woman enveloped in a large veil, which completely concealed her.

The envelope itself was likewise full.

Mr. Craven read the letter twice before he put it back in its envelope.

Behind the door-keeper walked a woman enveloped in a large veil, which completely concealed her.

Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

There are virtues which become crimes by exaggeration.

He had never caught even a glimpse of the boy and had heard a dozen exaggerated stories about his uncanny looks and ways and his insane tempers.

I often tell young ladies that no excellence in music is to be acquired without constant practice.

And so it came to pass, that the bird, while out one day, met a fellow bird, to whom he boastfully expatiated on the excellence of his household arrangements.

Marriage is an excellent thing, after all.

And desirous of putting an end to the interview, he pushed by her, and closed the door, as if to exclude the pain he felt.

Morrel, evidently discomposed, came to meet Monte Cristo less with the intention of receiving him than to exclude his entry.

For some days after that evening Mr. Heathcliff shunned meeting us at meals; yet he would not consent formally to exclude Hareton and Cathy.

From these basins the water is continually exhaled by the sun in the daytime, which effectually prevents their overflowing.

The air is so unusually clear, the clouds sail on so buoyantly, and from the green herbage a fragrance is exhaled that fills me with delight.

The violets exhaled their sweet breath, whilst I pressed against the windowpanes covered with fantastic frost-work the copper coin I had heated on the stove, and so made peep-holes.

Then, in spite of the wind and rain, he fell into the deep, sweet sleep of utter exhaustion.

I held him till the fit exhausted itself.

I tried to walk again: I dragged my exhausted limbs slowly towards it.

They apprehended my breaking loose; that my diet would be very expensive, and might cause a famine.

I suppose that she wanted to get another proof that the place was haunted, at my expense.

The whole city was talking of the splendid cloth which the Emperor had ordered to be woven at his own expense.

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.

He proposed to explore another passage.

It would be better to explore some of these than bear the weight of the heavy time in idleness.

He had indeed begun to wonder if it might not be wise to send some one out to explore the garden paths.

I think I rave in a kind of exquisite delirium.

At these words, uttered with the most exquisite sweetness and politeness, Madame de Morcerf replied.

On the table stood the most exquisite cherries, and Gerda ate as many as she chose, for she had permission to do so.

Every lawyer is familiar with the fact.

He seemed quite familiar and not the least afraid.

Presently the familiar tramp was heard in the dusk, and she ran out to meet him.

I saw the fascination of the locality.

It seemed to her like a fascinating sort of play.

The robin was evidently in a fascinating, bold mood.

Now he took to the road boldly, and as he was light and nimble, he felt no fatigue.

And as they had been sitting such a long time, their eyes closed with fatigue, and they fell fast asleep.

It was an animating subject, and Mrs. Bennet seemed incapable of fatigue while enumerating the advantages of the match.

Besides, that does not concern the home but the financial department.