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... join er breast pig ment lim ner big ness size ma son bun dle roll pros peet min er bur ' den load pur view mill ' er bob bin spool rā dix root mer chant con taet touch rai ment nail er eord age ropes rab ble mob paint er cov ey brood ...
... join er breast pig ment lim ner big ness size ma son bun dle roll pros peet min er bur ' den load pur view mill ' er bob bin spool rā dix root mer chant con taet touch rai ment nail er eord age ropes rab ble mob paint er cov ey brood ...
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... small u nite per fume join pro found deep scent re plete full trun ' dle rōll ro bust strong tum ble fall se eure safe trump et sound re miss slack SECTION III . Words of opposite Verbs . meaning . 38 TOWN'S SPELLING BOOK .
... small u nite per fume join pro found deep scent re plete full trun ' dle rōll ro bust strong tum ble fall se eure safe trump et sound re miss slack SECTION III . Words of opposite Verbs . meaning . 38 TOWN'S SPELLING BOOK .
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... dle ham per glit ter en twine en twist wel ter con quer wal low dis euss de bate un twist ' un wind ' in still in fuse ad diet de vote re gale af fix re fresh sub join a base ' hum ' ble be hoove ' be TOWN'S SPELLING BOOK . 45.
... dle ham per glit ter en twine en twist wel ter con quer wal low dis euss de bate un twist ' un wind ' in still in fuse ad diet de vote re gale af fix re fresh sub join a base ' hum ' ble be hoove ' be TOWN'S SPELLING BOOK . 45.
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... join to to hem in to resort to sum mer sim ple si lent slack en pri vate win ter com plex nois y quick en de jeet de cant to cast down up per un der to pour off wis dem fol ly e mit to send out ze nith na dir ex scind to cut off ad ...
... join to to hem in to resort to sum mer sim ple si lent slack en pri vate win ter com plex nois y quick en de jeet de cant to cast down up per un der to pour off wis dem fol ly e mit to send out ze nith na dir ex scind to cut off ad ...
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... joining Rivers . Ar kan ' sas Ca taw ba giving pain Ca haw ba a pouring upon in time past an addition a chief bishop a withdrawing act of adopting to try a chance to tie together a short story a sort of coal act of rising a precious ...
... joining Rivers . Ar kan ' sas Ca taw ba giving pain Ca haw ba a pouring upon in time past an addition a chief bishop a withdrawing act of adopting to try a chance to tie together a short story a sort of coal act of rising a precious ...
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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!