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... ment dor ie dig it dig ger aet or chat tel ci pher drug gist aet ress elas sie check er dutch ess dex ' tral flee ' cy fär Thing east ern fri day freck le gran ' ite greed y ei THer froz en fis sile ġip sy en sign feed er fore taste e ...
... ment dor ie dig it dig ger aet or chat tel ci pher drug gist aet ress elas sie check er dutch ess dex ' tral flee ' cy fär Thing east ern fri day freck le gran ' ite greed y ei THer froz en fis sile ġip sy en sign feed er fore taste e ...
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... ment skin churl rus tie stroll ram ble spine seum ref use nymph god dess sealp serap frag ment seribe writ er toe seheme proj eet tank cis tern thumb spine back bone mäsk vis or tongue brawl quar rel wräth an ger throat woof text ure ...
... ment skin churl rus tie stroll ram ble spine seum ref use nymph god dess sealp serap frag ment seribe writ er toe seheme proj eet tank cis tern thumb spine back bone mäsk vis or tongue brawl quar rel wräth an ger throat woof text ure ...
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... 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 sig nal pot ter eut ...
... 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 sig nal pot ter eut ...
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... ment mourn grieve prow stern pro pel push drive push pull pro eure gain get rich poor re tain hold keep rise fall buff ' et box beat rear front eŏl or stain dye right wrong cow ' er erouch stoop salt fresh erip ple maim lame sit stand ...
... ment mourn grieve prow stern pro pel push drive push pull pro eure gain get rich poor re tain hold keep rise fall buff ' et box beat rear front eŏl or stain dye right wrong cow ' er erouch stoop salt fresh erip ple maim lame sit stand ...
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... ment bed lam mad house i ris rain bow blos som flow er june tion bold ness cour age lär gess un ion boun ty bretн ren broтн ers laun dry wash room brim stone sul phur loo by eär nage slaugh ter lug gage eai tiff cinet ure vil lain gird ...
... ment bed lam mad house i ris rain bow blos som flow er june tion bold ness cour age lär gess un ion boun ty bretн ren broтн ers laun dry wash room brim stone sul phur loo by eär nage slaugh ter lug gage eai tiff cinet ure vil lain gird ...
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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!