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... dent bled elip rend land mink lent fled flip send rand sink vent sled slip tend bang wink went LESSON 21 . erum milk bank bill mill duck drum silk hank dill pill luck grum gilt lank fill rill tuck brim hilt rank hill sill dusk grim milt ...
... dent bled elip rend land mink lent fled flip send rand sink vent sled slip tend bang wink went LESSON 21 . erum milk bank bill mill duck drum silk hank dill pill luck grum gilt lank fill rill tuck brim hilt rank hill sill dusk grim milt ...
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... dent slen der ġin ger pro vide in tent LESSON 42 . rack ' et wax ' en fret ' ful melt ' ed jack et pack et flax en fault ful pelt ed deep en hurt ful belt ed lock et fresh en sin ful brand ed rock et sick en help ful hunt ed sock et ...
... dent slen der ġin ger pro vide in tent LESSON 42 . rack ' et wax ' en fret ' ful melt ' ed jack et pack et flax en fault ful pelt ed deep en hurt ful belt ed lock et fresh en sin ful brand ed rock et sick en help ful hunt ed sock et ...
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... dent ist fend er bump er elev er dex ter fif ty busk in chärg er flat ly fin ny bed lam chär nel flex ure fish er flint ' y flor ence ġen ' der Alur ry flor in griz zle flus ter fae tor gran ule gam ' ut hund red härd y frus trum fat ...
... dent ist fend er bump er elev er dex ter fif ty busk in chärg er flat ly fin ny bed lam chär nel flex ure fish er flint ' y flor ence ġen ' der Alur ry flor in griz zle flus ter fae tor gran ule gam ' ut hund red härd y frus trum fat ...
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... dent skep tie doubt er bale ful spon sor sure ty brill iant ten sion tight ness bon ny thresh old door sill ce rate ton sure shav ing eaus tie ac ' tive pun gent fer vent wo ful shin ing hand some wax en burn ing tor por tru ant tran ...
... dent skep tie doubt er bale ful spon sor sure ty brill iant ten sion tight ness bon ny thresh old door sill ce rate ton sure shav ing eaus tie ac ' tive pun gent fer vent wo ful shin ing hand some wax en burn ing tor por tru ant tran ...
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... dent sehol ar cōlts foot rap ine plun der pil lage cock le ser aph cher ub an gel eum in ten or pur port mean ing cum frey thrall ' dom slav ' er y bond ' age dai sy vor tex ed dy whirl pool fen nel as sault ' at tack ' on set af fairs ...
... dent sehol ar cōlts foot rap ine plun der pil lage cock le ser aph cher ub an gel eum in ten or pur port mean ing cum frey thrall ' dom slav ' er y bond ' age dai sy vor tex ed dy whirl pool fen nel as sault ' at tack ' on set af fairs ...
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accent adjectives adverbs antepenult bär cate ceive cent cial cif er ous cious cir eum column con test defined denotes its sound dent drol elam elean ence equi fore ful ly ful ness fy-ing-cation härd härm jeet leet lence less LESSON letters mean ment möve ness Nouns ol o gy ous ly pär pärt penult pertaining port preter primitive word Quadrupeds ra phy ri ous Rule ship sion sive sound as heard spell subvocal suffix syllable TABLE tain ting tion tive trans treach tude turb ture ty un vate verbs vert vocals
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Page 116 - 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...
Page 99 - March, the sun rises- exactly in the east, and sets exactly in the west.
Page 151 - If you have an enemy act kindly to him, and make him your friend. You may not win him over at once, but try again. Let one kindness be followed by another...
Page 3 - ... Letters and Spelling, let him learn these and such like Sentences by Heart." By the 1830s, however, spelling was under challenge, and textbooks rushed to redefine its value as literacy instruction. Salem Town's Spelling and Defining Book (1838) insisted that "a child being taught, both to read and to spell, should be taught, at the same time, to understand what he reads...
Page 151 - The road ambition travels is too narrow for friendship, too crooked for love, too rugged for honesty, too dark for science, and too hilly for happiness.
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Page 158 - Punctuation and Capital Letters. PUNCTUATION. Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, to mark the different pauses which the sense requires. The principal points are the Comma, thus , Interrogation, thus ? Semicolon, ; Exclamation, ! :. • Colon...
Page 80 - ve seen him drop To call our robin in; The line that held his pretty kite, His bow, his cup and ball, The slate on which he learned to write, His feather, cap, and all!