Merrill's Word and Sentence Book: A Practical Speller Designed to Teach the Form, Pronunciation, Meaning, and Use of Common WordsCharles E. Merrill Company, 1891 - 189 pages |
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... grow , delicious . A syllable is a letter or combination of letters sounded at a single effort of the voice ; as , ve - loç ' - i - pēde . A monosyllable is a word of one syllable ; as , I , do , gun . A dissyllable is a word of two ...
... grow , delicious . A syllable is a letter or combination of letters sounded at a single effort of the voice ; as , ve - loç ' - i - pēde . A monosyllable is a word of one syllable ; as , I , do , gun . A dissyllable is a word of two ...
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... grows in hot countries . Copy the words and sentences . Mark the short sound of o . - 29 - Geography Dictation . We live on a big ball . It is called the earth . It moves through space . Part of the surface is land and part water . The ...
... grows in hot countries . Copy the words and sentences . Mark the short sound of o . - 29 - Geography Dictation . We live on a big ball . It is called the earth . It moves through space . Part of the surface is land and part water . The ...
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... grow tall and green . Its roots go deep down into the ground to find food . This food is called the sap of the tree . The sap flows through the trunk , the branches , and every leaf . Every spring buds appear . The buds open to blossoms ...
... grow tall and green . Its roots go deep down into the ground to find food . This food is called the sap of the tree . The sap flows through the trunk , the branches , and every leaf . Every spring buds appear . The buds open to blossoms ...
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... grow in warm countries ? pine ap ple 67 - In the Country farm house ditch sheep vines knōll lambs swing in sects gar den ar bor cat tle or chard flow ers hay loft fields ber ries barn mead'ōw wheat but ter flies Write a story of a day ...
... grow in warm countries ? pine ap ple 67 - In the Country farm house ditch sheep vines knōll lambs swing in sects gar den ar bor cat tle or chard flow ers hay loft fields ber ries barn mead'ōw wheat but ter flies Write a story of a day ...
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... grows twice as high as a tall man . The stem is jointed . The leaves are long and look like ribbons . It grows in warm countries . When the canes are ripe , they are cut and taken to the mill to be pressed . The juice is boiled and then ...
... grows twice as high as a tall man . The stem is jointed . The leaves are long and look like ribbons . It grows in warm countries . When the canes are ripe , they are cut and taken to the mill to be pressed . The juice is boiled and then ...
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Alice Cary animal Avoirdupois ben e capital column comma Copy the words Date Palm daugh Dictation Dictation.—The feet fish flowers form their plurals grain John Howard Payne king land lesson letters little fox long sound mark the long Mark the short measuring ment Mont Blanc Morning's at seven ness Ocean Paul Lu plural form pound Pronunciation.—¹ pupils putting the right quart recite right word river river Dee Root forms Rule.-A short sound silent silent letters singular spelling sponge suffix syllables tion tism tive toil tree tress trout cod vowel wreaths Write the words yard
Popular passages
Page 106 - Monosyllables, and words accented on the last syllable, ending with a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double that consonant, when they take another syllable beginning with a vowel...
Page 49 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horseshoe nail.
Page 106 - The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist: A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
Page 58 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Page 77 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 151 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints — 1 quart (qt...
Page 88 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Page 121 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade — A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 82 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — Never! — never ! — never...
Page 90 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be : For loan oft loses both itself and friend ; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.