The American Word Book: Graded Lessons in Spelling, Defining, Punctuation, and DictationAmerican Book Company, 1897 - 192 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
adjectives adjectives by suffix beautiful Begin with capitals birds breeze Celia Thaxter cern cial clauses commas Complete the following con test consonant coun Derivatives dict Dictation Exercise digraph diphthong ence flowers following nouns following sentences following verbs Ichabod Crane inserting the right lect 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 silent singular sion snow song sound sweet syllable Synonyms Discriminated tain things tion tive tree túre verbs vowel WORD BOOK Words Defined Words of Opposite Words often Mispronounced Words Pronounced Alike Write from dictation Write the following
Popular passages
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 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 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 99 - Words of one syllable, and words of more than one syllable with the accent on the last syllable, ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant before a suffix beginning with a vowel...
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 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 183 - Ah, to build, to build ! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.