Reading Speller: A New Method of Teaching Spelling, Volume 2 |
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Common terms and phrases
Africa America angles ANIMAL KINGDOM animalcules ants Asia beautiful birds ble LESSON blood body bones bronchia byss called camel çieş çined classes coal color common CONTRACTIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS copper coral creatures dif'fer earth eggs eleş Exceptions to Rule feet Feldspar frog furnished GUTTA-PERCHA heat honey India insects iron juice la'tion Lac Insect laçe lignite limbs lime living love'li lungs manufacture ment Migratory Locust mountains muscles MUSK OX nearly organs ōş oŭs parallelogram Parallelopiped pearl peculiar pit'y plants polygon possesses produced pupils rain reptiles resembles rice rieş rivers RULES FOR SPELLING salt scarlet color silk skin snow solid SOUNDS OF LETTERS South America species spider sponge substance sugar surface tained tapir teeth tieş trees Triangle tropical tubes tūde usually varied varieties vegetable vowel Webster's Dictionary whale winds words zebu zinc
Popular passages
Page 181 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 71 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 19 - 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 : as, wit, witty ; thin, thinnish ; to abet, an abettor ; to begin, a beginner.
Page 180 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand, and my heart, to this vote.
Page 62 - A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 62 - An acute angle is less than a right angle. An obtuse angle is greater than a right angle.
Page 120 - Discount is an allowance made for the payment of money before it becomes due, and is obtained by subtracting the present worth from the given, sum or face of the note.
Page 65 - A polygon of three sides is a triangle ; of four, a quadrilateral ; of fiv*, a pentagon ; of six, a hexagon ; of seven, a heptagon ; of eight, an octagon; of nine, a nonagon; of ten, a decagon; of twelve, a dodecagon.
Page 29 - The least common multiple of two or more numbers is the least number that is exactly divisible by each of them.
Page 137 - They originate in the same causes as rain — the union of a cool body of air with one that is warm and humid ; when the precipitation of moisture is slight, fogs are produced ; when it is copious, rains are the result.