A Graded Spelling-book: Being a Complete Course in Spelling for Primary and Grammar Schools ...Harper & Brothers, 1888 - Spellers |
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16 ounces 60 minutes a'tion acre an'a Avoirdupois Weight ben e ble LESSON bushel called cate cents chro cized clipse color cord coun'ter de'cen cy de'li DENOMINATE NUMBERS denoting dimes dram Dry Measure eagle feet fied flowers foot for'ti gallons grains grizzly grizzly bear her'o insects lence lent li'na ling lous love'li ly LESSON mat'ic ment mile mul'ti nate ness nom'i o'ver ous ly pa'tri par'a peck pennyweight pints plural pound Prefixes prod'i pu'ri quarts quire res'cue ret'i scent short si'tion slight or obscure soft Square Measure square mile stead'y study of arithmetic Sweet Auburn syllable tal'i tism tive trans tree Troy Weight tude turbed unmarked unmkd val'ley vis'i Washington Irving wild hog Words occurring yards
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Page 12 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene!
Page 41 - Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere. Now he patted his horse's side...
Page 13 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round.
Page 74 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Page 8 - Square Measure 144 square inches (sq. in.) = 1 square foot (sq. ft.) 9 square feet = 1 square yard (sq. yd.) 30j square yards = 1 square rod (sq.
Page 32 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
Page 38 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 3 - I CHATTER over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow.
Page 8 - Scale: 4 farthings (far.) = 1 penny (d.); 12 pence = 1 shilling (s.) ; 20 shillings — 1 pound (£). 156.
Page 44 - Labor is wealth ! In the sea the pearl groweth ; Rich the queen's robe from the frail cocoon floweth ; From the fine acorn the strong forest bloweth; Temple and statue the marble block hides.