8th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

The fact that a somewhat dilapidated blue one remained stationary above the unprotected bonnet attracted her attention, and looking up, she saw Mr. Bhaer looking down.

The first was just disappearing in the straits of Bonifacio; the other, following an opposite direction, was about to round the Island of Corsica.

Just now it's the fashion to be hideous, to make your head look like a scrubbing brush, wear a strait jacket, orange gloves, and clumping square-toed boots.

Alone, Valentine has no power; she will be compelled to submit.

I will make myself acquainted with his intentions and will submit to them.

Beauchamp understood that nothing remained but to submit, and left the office to despatch a courier to Morcerf.

I will retain my post of mistress till you get a substitute.

It was a sweet substitute for the yet absent murmur of the summer foliage, which drowned that music about the Grange when the trees were in leaf.

In a few months, it is possible, the happiness of seeing progress, and a change for the better in my scholars may substitute gratification for disgust.

In due course the superintendent stood up in front of the pulpit, with a closed hymn-book in his hand and his forefinger inserted between its leaves, and commanded attention.

d'Avrigny to superintend all the arrangements consequent upon a death in a large city, more especially a death under such suspicious circumstances.

He was superintending the grooming of his horse, and smoking his cigar at the entrance of the garden, when the count's carriage stopped at the gate.

You ought not to be so superior.

In understanding, Darcy was the superior.

Such very superior dancing is not often seen.

The Sunday-school children distributed themselves about the house and occupied pews with their parents, so as to be under supervision.

The Sunday-school children distributed themselves about the house and occupied pews with their parents, so as to be under supervision.

Presently Becky began to suspect.

No one must ever suspect that they had a secret.

I suspect a hoax is intended, but the instigators of it little knew whom they had to deal with.

Any girl reader who has suffered like afflictions will sympathize with poor Amy and wish her well through her task.

There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathize with the sufferer in a great catastrophe.

Go on, dear, patiently and bravely, and always believe that no one sympathizes more tenderly with you than your loving.

This devil of a fellow," he muttered, shaking his head; "I said at the time he would create a sensation here, and I measure his effect by an infallible thermometer.

Mr. Bhaer soon joined her, looking rather out of his element, and presently several of the philosophers, each mounted on his hobby, came ambling up to hold an intellectual tournament in the recess.

Presently a bell sounded, the curtains flew apart, and the operatic tragedy began.

Some further discovery will be made, which will bring this dreadful tragedy to a close.

Danglars make a speech at the Chamber of Deputies, and at his wife's this evening I shall hear the tragedy of a peer of France.

He showed me also the treasure of gold, and wrought iron that Ulysses had got together.

I must be careful of you, my treasure: nerves like yours were not made for rough handling.

As it is I do not know where to put my treasure, and I cannot leave it here for fear somebody else should get hold of it.

All members to appear in uniform.

With sword, and uniform, and plume so high.

On grand occasions you must wear your uniform; that will look very well.

The refreshing meal, the brilliant fire, the presence and kindness of her beloved instructress, or, perhaps, more than all these, something in her own unique mind, had roused her powers within her.

Franz felt a shudder run through his veins at observing that the feeling of the duke and the countess was so much in unison with his own personal disquietude.

The dejection was almost universal.

I have no relative but the universal mother, Nature: I will seek her breast and ask repose.

The universal response was, that the fare was detestable, and that they wanted to be set free.

'Consider your verdict,' the King said to the jury.

'Consider your verdict,' he said to the jury, in a low, trembling voice.

His majesty had given orders, that the island should move north-east and by east, to the vertical point over Lagado, the metropolis of the whole kingdom below, upon the firm earth.

She was as simple-hearted and honest as the day was long, and so she was an easy victim.

Next day a hundred newspapers relate the fact, with the names of the victim and the murderer.

The only resource left me was to run to a lattice and warn his intended victim of the fate which awaited him.

The same anxiety to get them by themselves was visible again in the evening.

I could not bear to return to the sordid village, where, besides, no prospect of aid was visible.

His complexion became pale with anger, and the disturbance of his mind was visible in every feature.

A vision, as it seemed to me, had risen at his side.

God grants me the boon of vision unrestricted by time or space.

I contended with my inward dimness of vision, before which clouds yet rolled.

The fire crackled, and the smoke ascended like the dull vapor from a volcano; but still no prisoner fell down, as they expected.

But immediately through this opening twenty more shots were fired, and the flame, rushing up like fire from the crater of a volcano, soon reached the tapestry, which it quickly devoured.

It was the volcanoes Vesuvius and Etna that she meant.

We could see the bottom of the whirlpool all black with sand and mud, and the men were at their wits ends for fear.

This indeed was what actually happened, for I was borne along by the waves all night, and by sunrise had reached the rock of Scylla, and the whirlpool.

How they ever grew up alive in that whirlpool of boys was a mystery to their grandma and aunts, but they flourished like dandelions in spring, and their rough nurses loved and served them well.