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... fully articulated as the vocals . Aspirates are letters whose elementary sounds are formed by propelling the breath more or less forcibly through the teeth and lips . The vocals , as vowels , are a , e , i , o , u , w and y . The ...
... fully articulated as the vocals . Aspirates are letters whose elementary sounds are formed by propelling the breath more or less forcibly through the teeth and lips . The vocals , as vowels , are a , e , i , o , u , w and y . The ...
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... 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 short en man ful lift ed LESSON 43 . boy ' ish nice ' ly un kind ' mis date eoy ish ...
... 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 short en man ful lift ed LESSON 43 . boy ' ish nice ' ly un kind ' mis date eoy ish ...
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... ful shin ing hand some wax en burn ing tor por tru ant tran seript treat ... ful of fense za ny buf foon oft en old en fre quent än cient ad vice ' ea bal coun ' sel peace ful qui et jun to pet ... ly a fär pal try TOWN'S SPELLING BOOK . 43.
... ful shin ing hand some wax en burn ing tor por tru ant tran seript treat ... ful of fense za ny buf foon oft en old en fre quent än cient ad vice ' ea bal coun ' sel peace ful qui et jun to pet ... ly a fär pal try TOWN'S SPELLING BOOK . 43.
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... ful dole ful a thwart a eross rud dy red dish e reet sel dom rare ly en core serv ile slav ish gen teel sil ly fool ish ob scene up ' right a gain ' po lite un chaste sleaz y flim sy ob lique a slänt shab by rag ged am ' ple lärge ster ...
... ful dole ful a thwart a eross rud dy red dish e reet sel dom rare ly en core serv ile slav ish gen teel sil ly fool ish ob scene up ' right a gain ' po lite un chaste sleaz y flim sy ob lique a slänt shab by rag ged am ' ple lärge ster ...
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... ful a muse di vert please sweet bit ter ae quire ob tain gain top bot tom ac cept re ceive take lend bor row be come be fit suit straight erook ed con ceal se crete hide elean dirt y eon temn de spise seorn late ear ly de coy dis robe ...
... ful a muse di vert please sweet bit ter ae quire ob tain gain top bot tom ac cept re ceive take lend bor row be come be fit suit straight erook ed con ceal se crete hide elean dirt y eon temn de spise seorn late ear ly de coy dis robe ...
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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!