The American Word Book: Graded Lessons in Spelling, Defining, Punctuation, and DictationAmerican Book Company, 1897 - 192 pages |
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adjectives adjectives by suffix AL LOW beautiful Begin with capitals birds breeze Celia Thaxter clauses commas Complete the following con test consonant Derivatives dict Dictation Exercise digraph diphthong ence flowers following nouns following sentences following verbs Ichabod Crane inserting the right letters light Longfellow Lowell ment nate ness nest nouns by suffixing nouns ending Opposite Meaning Prefix Punctuation ri ous right word sail Selection for Dictation sentences by inserting sentences from dictation singular sion snow song sound sweet syllable Synonyms Discriminated tence things tion tive tree verbs vowel WORD BOOK Words Defined Words of Opposite Words often Mispronounced Words Pronounced Alike Write from dictation Write the following
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Page 136 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night. And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 182 - ... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough), and remain an utterly
Page 137 - No man is born into the world, whose work Is not born with him; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil!
Page 96 - But, if thou be a king, where is thy crown ? K. Hen. My crown is in my heart, not on my head ; Not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen : my crown is called content ; A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy.
Page 116 - Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
Page 55 - The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Page 186 - And when the victory shall be complete, — when there shall be neither a slave nor a drunkard on the earth, — how proud tKe title of that land which may truly claim to be the birthplace and the cradle of both those revolutions that shall have ended in that victory.
Page 92 - FROM breakfast on through all the day At home among my friends I stay ; But every night I go abroad Afar into the land of Nod. All by myself I have to go, With none to tell me what to do — All alone beside the streams And up the mountain-sides of dreams. The strangest things are there for me, Both things to eat and things to see, And many frightening sights abroad Till morning in the land of Nod.
Page 91 - WHO does his duty is a question Too complex to be solved by me, But he, I venture the suggestion, Does part of his that plants a tree.
Page 98 - The flush of life may well be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys ; The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace.