Word and Sentence Book: A Graded Course in SpellingD.C. Heath & Company, 1904 |
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Word and Sentence Book: A Graded Course in Spelling, Book 1 John H. Haaren No preview available - 2017 |
Common terms and phrases
Address an envelope apostrophe baby bark bird bite blige blue Brooklyn brother cage capital letter changing the y cing claws color comma Copy the following Copy the words Dear dinner division into syllables doubling Edward Johnson father flower following after changing following words FOURTH SCHOOL ging girl grass happy hear Jack James Jones know that end lunch mother mul ti pli names of five names of four ness ning Note the division omitting pansy pencil pony pray preceding lesson pretty proper names quotation marks second column SENTENCES ILLUSTRATING Show the division sings sister sleeps spect spelling teacher teeth third column tion titles of honor Union Square walk watch William O'Brien word into syllables word is divided words after adding Write the following Write the names Write the words York ΙΟ
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Page 103 - Humming-birds and honey-bees; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and through the night, Whispering at the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall; Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel pond, Mine the walnut slopes beyond, Mine, on bending orchard trees, Apples of Hesperides!
Page 112 - Children's Hour Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair.
Page 87 - His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Page 72 - For summer's nearly done ; The garden smiling faintly, Cool breezes in the sun, Our thrushes now are silent, Our swallows flown away, — But Robin's here in coat of brown.
Page 70 - Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve ! Where no hope is, life's a warning That only serves to make us grieve, When we are old...
Page 91 - LABOR with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone. Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun. By the bedside, on the stair, At the threshold, near the gates, With its menace or its prayer, Like a mendicant it waits ; Waits, and will not go away ; Waits, and will not be gainsaid ; By the cares of yesterday Each to-day is heavier made ; Till at length the burden seems Greater than our strength...
Page 78 - The boys' pens. The Hyphen ( - ) is used to separate syllables, and also the parts of a compound word ; as, cit-i-zen, town-house. It is also used at the end of a line, when part of a word is carried to the beginning of the next line. Quotation Marks ( " " ) are used to show that the exact words of another are given; as, There is much truth in the proverb, "Light gains make heavy purses.
Page 70 - Quotation Marks Quotation marks are used to show the exact words of a speaker or to show the exact quote the writer is using from someone else. Example: The mother turned and said, "I am so proud of you.
Page 89 - All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea doth not overflow: unto the place from whence the rivers come they return, to flow again.
Page 106 - The harvest days are come again, The vales are surging with the grain ; The merry work goes on amain ; Pale streaks of cloud scarce veil the blue, Against the golden harvest hue The Autumn trees look fresh and new; Wrinkled brows relax with glee, And aged eyes they laugh to see The sickles follow o'er the lea; I see the little...