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... wood and coal . Coal and wood will make a fire . The world turns round in a day . Will you help me pin my frock ? Do not sit on the damp ground . We burn oil in tin and glass lamps . The lame man limps on his lame leg We make ropes of ...
... wood and coal . Coal and wood will make a fire . The world turns round in a day . Will you help me pin my frock ? Do not sit on the damp ground . We burn oil in tin and glass lamps . The lame man limps on his lame leg We make ropes of ...
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... loves to eat clover . The tulip is very pretty , growing in the garden . A dial shows the hour of the day . Cedar trees grow in the woods . The blackberry grows on a brier . BÄR , LÅST , € ÂRE , FALL , WHAT SPELLING BOOK . 25.
... loves to eat clover . The tulip is very pretty , growing in the garden . A dial shows the hour of the day . Cedar trees grow in the woods . The blackberry grows on a brier . BÄR , LÅST , € ÂRE , FALL , WHAT SPELLING BOOK . 25.
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... wood room soon sloop loose stook good broom swoon droop goose goose nook stood fool spool boot root proof son pool ... woods . The red beet is good to eat . If I meet him in the street , I will greet him with a kind look , and show him ...
... wood room soon sloop loose stook good broom swoon droop goose goose nook stood fool spool boot root proof son pool ... woods . The red beet is good to eat . If I meet him in the street , I will greet him with a kind look , and show him ...
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... woods . Fire will melt ores , and the metal will run off and leave the dross . God will bless those who do his will . No. 44. - XLIV . WORDS OF TWO SYLLABLES , ACCENTED ON THE FIRST . băn'quet pot ash pitch ' er băn dy gus set fil lip ...
... woods . Fire will melt ores , and the metal will run off and leave the dross . God will bless those who do his will . No. 44. - XLIV . WORDS OF TWO SYLLABLES , ACCENTED ON THE FIRST . băn'quet pot ash pitch ' er băn dy gus set fil lip ...
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... wood will make a hot fire . If you go too near a hot fire it may singe or scorch your frock . The troops march to the sound of the drum . Six boys can sit on one long bench . The birds fly from branch to branch on the trees and clinch ...
... wood will make a hot fire . If you go too near a hot fire it may singe or scorch your frock . The troops march to the sound of the drum . Six boys can sit on one long bench . The birds fly from branch to branch on the trees and clinch ...
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ACCENTED al low ÂRE āte BÄR bil i ty BĨRD BỎN BULE BYLE CÂRE çel çen çent çep çer cial cious çişm consonant denotes digraph diphthong diş eŎn eôr EXIST FALL FOLLOWING WORDS FOOT FOUR SYLLABLES GÂRE HÊR HĨR işm la tion LÅST letters ling LINK log ie ly ness MARÏNE māte ment mět MOON MOVE nant näte nouns oŭs păr pěn PREY PRONOUNCED PULL ra phy rāte ri ous ri ty sion sive SỎN sound SYLLABLES tain tāte těn THÊRE THREE SYLLABLES tial tion eon tion ex tious tive trae trans tūre ū lāte UNMARKED ūre vowel WHẠT WOLF WORDS OF FOUR WORDS OF THREE
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Page 143 - It is no more than justice," quoth the Farmer, "to be sure: but what did I say! — I mistake — It is your bull that has killed one of my oxen." "Indeed," says the Lawyer, "that alters the case: I must inquire into the affair; and if" — "And if!" said the Farmer, "the business I find would have been concluded without an if, had you been as ready to do justice to others as to exact it from them.
Page 141 - 'An old man found a rude boy upon one of his trees stealing apples, and desired him to come down; but the young saucebox told him plainly he would not. 'Won't you?
Page 46 - It is as certain to follow, as that the sun will rise in the east and set in the west tomorrow.
Page 141 - Won't you ?" said the old man, " then I will fetch you down;" so he pulled up some turf or grass and threw at him; but this only made the youngster laugh, to think the old man should pretend to beat him down from the tree with grass only. "Well, well...
Page 142 - HASTY and inconsiderate connections are generally attended with great disadvantages : and much of every man's good or ill fortune depends upon the choice he makes of his friends. A good-natured Spaniel overtook a surly Mastiff, as he was travelling upon the high road. Tray, although an entire stranger to...
Page 145 - TWO Friends, setting out together upon a journey which led through a dangerous forest, mutually promised to assist each other if they should happen to be assaulted. They had not proceeded far before they perceived a Bear making towards them with great rage. There were no hopes in flight ; but one of them, being very active, sprung up into a tree ; upon which the other, throwing himself flat on the ground, held his breath, and pretended to be dead, remembering to have heard it asserted that this creature...
Page 101 - The waves of the sea are mighty, and rage horribly : but yet the Lord, who dwelleth on high, is mightier. 6 Thy testimonies, O Lord, are very sure : holiness becometh thine house for ever.
Page 141 - ... concerned. A country maid was walking very deliberately with a pail of milk upon her head, when she fell into the following train of...