A New Spelling BookLongmans, Green, 1919 - 104 pages |
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Page 101
... THE INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS LONG MANS , GREEN AND CO . FOURTH AVENUE AND 30TH STREET , NEW YORK PRAIRIE AVENUE AND 25TH STREET , CHICAGO 136 MARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT OF BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE LIBRARY GEORGIA ALEXANDER ...
... THE INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS LONG MANS , GREEN AND CO . FOURTH AVENUE AND 30TH STREET , NEW YORK PRAIRIE AVENUE AND 25TH STREET , CHICAGO 136 MARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT OF BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE LIBRARY GEORGIA ALEXANDER ...
Page 145
... street , An air - ship slowly sailed , with whirring fans , A voyager in the new - found realms of gold , A shadowy silken chrysalis whence should break What radiant wings in centuries to be . diz'zy mo'tor ben zine ' - ALFRED NOYES ...
... street , An air - ship slowly sailed , with whirring fans , A voyager in the new - found realms of gold , A shadowy silken chrysalis whence should break What radiant wings in centuries to be . diz'zy mo'tor ben zine ' - ALFRED NOYES ...
Page 171
... STREET OWENSBORO , PA . Dec. 3 , 1918 MR . J. F. SIMPSON 46 S. MERIDIAN ST . PITTSBURGH , PA . DEAR SIR : I write in response to your advertisement for a traveling sales- man in the drug business . I have had three years ' experience as ...
... STREET OWENSBORO , PA . Dec. 3 , 1918 MR . J. F. SIMPSON 46 S. MERIDIAN ST . PITTSBURGH , PA . DEAR SIR : I write in response to your advertisement for a traveling sales- man in the drug business . I have had three years ' experience as ...
Page 181
... street , or visit- ing philanthropists making myself objectionable down that street , I could sum it all up and say , " Houses at forty pounds a year . " But suppose I could be father - confessor to that street , how awful and altered ...
... street , or visit- ing philanthropists making myself objectionable down that street , I could sum it all up and say , " Houses at forty pounds a year . " But suppose I could be father - confessor to that street , how awful and altered ...
Page 187
... STREET NEW ORLEANS , LA . January 2 , 1918 CHATTANOOGA , TENN . DEAR SIR : We are calling the attention of our regular customers to a new line in nut caramels which we are manufacturing as our Valentine specialty for this year . We ...
... STREET NEW ORLEANS , LA . January 2 , 1918 CHATTANOOGA , TENN . DEAR SIR : We are calling the attention of our regular customers to a new line in nut caramels which we are manufacturing as our Valentine specialty for this year . We ...
Common terms and phrases
ac com'pa accent ALFRED NOYES Analyze each word apostrophe ar'gu ment au'di bil'i ty ble ex cate ceive ci'sion cil'i COMMON ABBREVIATIONS consonant crit'i DEAR dent di'cious dictionary learn DIFFICULT WORDS el'i gi ble en'ter prise ence ex trav'a ex'qui fewer than eight fewer than six fi'cient following words ges'tion gree'a ble HORACE GREELEY in'ter JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL JOAQUIN MILLER JOSEPH PENNELL judg'ment lec'tion leg'i ble lib'er man'age ment man'u script memory not fewer mo nop'o nef'i nouns ending oc cur'rence peace'a ble plural Practice this pronunciation pres'sion prin'ci ples priv'i lege qual'i ty RALPH WALDO EMERSON REVIEW OF DIFFICULT ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON root scrip'tion show the meaning si'tion sir'a ble SPELLING MATCH WORDS Spelling Rule struc'ture suffix tel'li ten'tion ter'ri Thomas Bailey Aldrich THOMAS CARLYLE THOMAS EDWARD BROWN tive to'ri ture val'u vis'i ble vowel WILLIAM LOWE BRYAN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WORD ANALYSIS write
Popular passages
Page 113 - New occasions teach new duties : Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea. Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 150 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Page 167 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations...
Page 206 - MY GARDEN A GARDEN is a lovesome thing, God wot! Rose plot, Fringed pool, Ferned grot — The veriest school Of peace; and yet the fool Contends that God is not — Not God! in gardens! when the eve is cool? Nay, but I have a sign: Tis very sure God walks in mine.
Page 154 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Page 151 - Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote: For him her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true.
Page 117 - Here's Martha, mother!' cried the two young Cratchits. 'Hurrah! There's such a goose, Martha!' 'Why, bless your heart alive, my dear, how late you are!' said Mrs Cratchit, kissing her a dozen times, and taking off her shawl and bonnet for her with officious zeal. 'We'da deal of work to finish up last night,' replied the girl, 'and had to clear away this morning, mother.
Page 173 - Ah! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
Page 193 - Anthony, she should be mistress of orthodoxy, that she might not misspell and mispronounce words so shamefully as girls usually do; and likewise, that she might reprehend the true meaning of what she is saying.
Page 123 - All true work is sacred; in all true work, were it but true hand-labor, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.