9th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

Soon after we heard that the poor victim had expressed a desire to see my cousin.

I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.

What had been the study and desire of the wisest men since the creation of the world was now within my grasp.

But when he entered, misery and despair alone welcomed him.

You have hope, and the world before you, and have no cause for despair.

But I did not feel the inconvenience of the weather; my imagination was busy in scenes of evil and despair.

Selden roused himself to detain her.

I can detain you both, quite concealed, here.

I shall detain you until this evening in the Palais de Justice.

Villefort watched him with alarm not devoid of admiration.

You thought me then devoid of every proper feeling, I am sure you did.

The rugged eloquence with which he spoke, was not devoid of all effect.

They advanced rapidly and noiselessly, with the confidence and dexterity of practised scouts.

But, he was on his feet directly, and after sponging himself with a great show of dexterity began squaring again.

My remedy was to cut them in pieces with my knife, as they flew in the air, wherein my dexterity was much admired.

There I must umbly beg leave to differ from you.

But there are points where St. Clare and I differ.

If you are one of those who want us to consume it, I differ from you.

Scarlett looked at her, her brow wrinkling with the effort to digest the words.

I think of myself as so superior, but I do eat and digest, I do wash my dirty paws and scratch.

No possible way for him to digest that jack-knife, and fully incorporate it into his general bodily system.

I watched to see whether it would spread: but no; as it did not diminish, so it did not enlarge.

Nor, in profile, does this wondrous brow diminish; though that way viewed its grandeur does not domineer upon you so.

Perhaps one of those beloved ones he had so often thought of was thinking of him, and striving to diminish the distance that separated them.

You must discard the word Fancy altogether.

But it is women who are the calm realists once they discard the fetishes of the premarital hunt.

But you have discarded your titles after the example set you by Messrs.

The more retired we live, the better I shall discharge it.

I solemnly accepted his commission, dear good fellow, and cannot discharge it too completely.

I appealed to one who, in the discharge of what he believed his duty, knew neither mercy nor remorse.

It is already known at the Bank that I mean to dismiss Krogstad.

It is a reflection I am unable to dismiss, and it sometimes makes me very uneasy.

From their tongues they did dismiss it; and Catherine, probably, from her thoughts.

He waited in order to allow pure air to displace the foul atmosphere, and then went on.

He began by moving his bed, and looked around for anything with which he could pierce the wall, penetrate the moist cement, and displace a stone.

The reason of her sudden displacement now appeared.

And try to restrain the disproportionate fervour with which you throw yourself into commonplace home pleasures.

He is small for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large.

Her Armand was disproportionately young and slight, a handsome youth, perplexed in the extreme.

A long dispute followed this declaration; but Mr. Bennet was firm.

I need not say that we were strangers to any species of disunion or dispute.

The question of the possibility of having children had long been a subject of dispute and irritation to her.

The mails were still disrupted, no one knew where the Confederates were or what the Yankees were up to.

It would take many years for the living blood of the generations to dissolve the vast black clot of bruised blood, deep inside their souls and bodies.

I suffered unspeakable trouble while I considered and reconsidered whether I should at last dissolve that spell of my childhood and tell Joe all the story.

It was mid-April, and one felt that the revelry had reached its climax and that the desultory groups in the square and gardens would soon dissolve and re-form in other scenes.

In the midst of my distress, I had no notion of going back.

Elinor, affected by his relation, and still more by his distress, could not speak.

That individual is in legal possession of the premises, under a distress for rent.

Several times she appeared suddenly among them, with her hands full of candy, nuts, and oranges, which she would distribute joyfully to them, and then be gone again.

I noticed throughout, that he kept everything under his own hand, and distributed everything himself.

Locksley now proceeded to the distribution of the spoil, which he performed with the most laudable impartiality.

I never attested any such document.

Giles slit the flap of an apparently business document.

I could not help smiling at the document when I had completed it.

All his wishes centered in domestic comfort and the quiet of private life.

Quite as comfortable as we can expect a young mother to be, under these melancholy domestic circumstances.

My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic, and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances.

No one except the doting father could see anything beautiful about her, but the neighbors were charitable enough to say that all ugly babies turned out pretty, eventually.

Melanie especially doted on him.

It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.

Oozing out from every drab wall, she felt a forbidding spirit which she could never conquer.

Rendered complete by drab pantaloons and a buff waistcoat, I thought Mr. Barkis a phenomenon of respectability.

Simeon Halliday, a tall, straight, muscular man, in drab coat and pantaloons, and broad-brimmed hat, now entered.

He cannot be in bed, I thought: those showers would drench him through.

And now a drenching rain poured down and the rising hurricane drove it in sheets along the ground.

Only then he suddenly awoke to the fact that he had been wrong about the weather and the rain was drenching his hay.

I then worked the lawn very carefully for signs and traces, but this drought has made everything as hard as iron.

He must have been born in some time of general drought and famine, or upon one of those fast days for which his state is famous.

The drought which Reuben administered was of a sedative and narcotic quality, and secured the patient sound and undisturbed slumbers.

Here I sit at the desk again, on a drowsy summer afternoon.

As she went on talking he listened in a drowsy, interested way.

Within five minutes he was dressed and down-stairs, feeling sore and drowsy.

If the plot lacked lucidity, the dual motif of legs and pie was clear and sure.

In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him.

Yet he is, for all the world, in constitution and habit, a duplicate of my father.

She was the exact duplicate of the other Pharaon, and loaded, as that had been, with cochineal and indigo.

It was claimed that same evening, and returned; but in the interval I had taken a moulding of it, and had a duplicate constructed.

I am glad to dwell upon the earnestness and love with which she lifted up her face to mine, and did so.

When I first saw him I thought him plain, but now his appearance is like that of the gods who dwell in heaven.

No, really, my dear Doctor, you must excuse me if I appear to dwell on this rather, because I feel so very strongly.

I have been too much at my ease, too happy, too frank.

Her heart was not so much at ease, nor her satisfaction in their amusements so pure.

I continued walking in this manner for some time, endeavouring by bodily exercise to ease the load that weighed upon my mind.

We have got on very economical so fur.

There were no signs of struggle, neither social nor economical struggle.

On his long, gaunt body, he carried no spare flesh, no superfluous beard, his chin having a soft, economical nap to it, like the worn nap of his broad-brimmed hat.

Whereupon the emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs.

Force had been piled on top of force and military edicts in increasing numbers had rendered the civil authority more and more impotent.

But she had a guilty sense of pleasure that the doctors' edict had made impossible any real intimacy between Ashley and his wife.

But outwardly he began to be effective.

An exit ought always to be effective, Mrs Linde; but that is what I cannot make Nora understand.

They were not the leafy words of an effective life, young with energy and belonging to the tree.

Yet they seemed to be as efficient as the Sam Clarks.

And in many ways the animal method of doing things was more efficient and saved labour.

And if you are inclined to despise the day of small things, seek some more efficient succour than such as I can offer.

Zeena, while he spoke, seemed to be following out some elaborate mental calculation.

She knew that his elaborate gallantries and his florid speeches were all done with his tongue in his cheek.

It was that night he sent for me at his dance, and you should have heard the elaborate way he worked up to it.

Nevertheless I left that gallery greatly elated.

She was satisfied with her success, but not elated.

I liked this scheme, and Provis was quite elated by it.

His first act was to elevate his torch to a level with my face, squint malignantly, project his under-lip, and turn away.

She felt that he had every thing to elevate him which general attention and deference, and especially the attention of all the young women, could do.

They elevated me from all littleness of feeling, and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillized it.

But she knew a way to elude them.

I had dared and baffled his fury; I must elude his sorrow: I retired to the door.

Yet every now and then one would come straight towards me, setting loose a quivering horror that made me quick to elude him.

And, to be frank with you, brother, I would not embark with you in this matter, even if I could hope to bring my bark to haven.

Upon this, I told him that whaling was my own design, and informed him of my intention to sail out of Nantucket, as being the most promising port for an adventurous whaleman to embark from.

George, with his wife, children, sister and mother, embarked for Africa, some few weeks after.

By the straits of Sunda, chiefly, vessels bound to China from the west, emerge into the China seas.

And then had been spun between them an early morning thread before the twigs and leaves of real friendship emerge.

It was fifteen minutes after the hour when he saw a form emerge from the snow mist, and sprang toward it with a cry.

The proctors employ the advocates.

My dear Dora, unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ, they will never learn to do their duty to us.

When I found so astonishing a power placed within my hands, I hesitated a long time concerning the manner in which I should employ it.

First you will come to the Sirens who enchant all who come near them.

He said it was all done by enchantment.

Yet it was like a piece of enchantment.

We had three copies typewritten, one of which I enclose.

He read the letter through and felt pleased with it, and especially that he had remembered to enclose money: there was not a harsh word, not a reproach in it, nor was there undue indulgence.

Some money was enclosed in this letter also.

The emperor, and all his court, came out to meet us; but his great officers would by no means suffer his majesty to endanger his person by mounting on my body.

Yet it is terrible to reflect that the lives of all these men are endangered through me.

Eustacia could not help replying, though conscious that she endangered her dignity thereby.

Readily would she endow this voice with all her treasure if so be tears could be ended.

Madame de Villefort has nothing of her own, and hates me for being so richly endowed.

Such, then, were the splendours with which the gods had endowed the house of king Alcinous.

The deliberate woodsman had little occasion to hunt for arguments to enforce his advice.

For three years the Federal government had been trying to impose alien ideas and an alien rule upon Georgia and, with an army to enforce its commands, it had largely succeeded.

The opinions which she felt strongly, she avowed boldly; and Cedric, who could not free himself from his habitual deference to her opinions, felt totally at a loss how to enforce his authority of guardian.

But self, though it would intrude, could not engross her.

But his cherished scheme only engrossed him the more.

Later on he had been engrossed in other questions, and had simply forgotten the Board of Irrigation.

As the high watery walls came rolling in, and, at their highest, tumbled into surf, they looked as if the least would engulf the town.

Nothing can ensure the continuance of love.

One paternal kind precaution he had taken to ensure my having a companion.

It was evident that the report concerning her had spread, and a short pause succeeded, which seemed to ensure that it would now spread farther.

All the men in her circle seemed to admire her and envy me.

I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory.

If he had any feeling for his brother at that moment, it was envy for the knowledge the dying man had now that he could not have.

A serious epidemic broke out in the school and three of the boys died.

It turned out that the Jeroboam had a malignant epidemic on board, and that Mayhew, her captain, was fearful of infecting the Pequod's company.

Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole.

The tick escaped from Tom, presently, and crossed the equator.

"An island situated on the other side of the equator, at least two thousand leagues from here," replied the count.

It is right to establish a good understanding at the beginning.

Still, we can hypothesize, even if we cannot prove and establish.

As a parent, Kennicott was moved to establish the first child-welfare week held in Gopher Prairie.

Pray make Brooke useful, and draw on me for funds if expenses exceed your estimate.

He was said to own a thousand slaves, and I think this estimate quite within the truth.

But it was in the quality of his admiration that she read his shrewd estimate of her case.

Inflamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind.

But he never justified himself by a hint tending that way, or tried to bend the past out of its eternal shape.

I came into the valley, as the evening sun was shining on the remote heights of snow, that closed it in, like eternal clouds.

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

However, this confirmed my first opinion, that a people who could so far civilise brute animals, must needs excel in wisdom all the nations of the world.

Look now at Stubb; a man who from his humorous, deliberate coolness and equanimity in the direst emergencies, was specially qualified to excel in pitchpoling.

An unvaried pall of cloud muffled the whole expanse of sky from zenith to horizon.

He flapped a drowsy welcoming hand at her from the expanse of quilt and dented pillows.

They shot higher and higher and widened rapidly into a broad expanse of red before her terrified eyes.

Yes, I am on an expedition of duty.

This expedition has been the favourite dream of my early years.

On the day before there had been almost a quarrel between Vronsky and Anna over this proposed expedition.

Strings of expletives he swung lashlike over the backs of his men, and it was evident that his previous efforts had in nowise impaired his resources.

made of all swine products exported to countries requiring.

My journeys became more and more extensive and more productive.

I am sorry to say that my patronage ends with this; and my interest is hardly more extensive.

On the occasion of this domestic little party, I did not repeat my former extensive preparations.

They mutually exterminated one another.

He had lost in the fierce battle of greed, and so was doomed to be exterminated; and all society was busied to see that he did not escape the sentence.