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... ship trip skim plum glěn flap skip strip brim grum chin slap elip frit grim drum skin snap flip split No. 29. - XXIX . chop chär shop spar plat smit slop star spat flăt slit blot slut elot smut spit plot glut erop stir brat split spot ...
... ship trip skim plum glěn flap skip strip brim grum chin slap elip frit grim drum skin snap flip split No. 29. - XXIX . chop chär shop spar plat smit slop star spat flăt slit blot slut elot smut spit plot glut erop stir brat split spot ...
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... Ships go to sea . The boy can chop . The man shot a ball . I saw her skim the milk in a pan . No. 30. - XXX . bulb bōld bănd brănd wĕnd fond bärb cold hand ĕnd blend pond garb gold land bend bind fund herb fold rand fend find bärd verb ...
... Ships go to sea . The boy can chop . The man shot a ball . I saw her skim the milk in a pan . No. 30. - XXX . bulb bōld bănd brănd wĕnd fond bärb cold hand ĕnd blend pond garb gold land bend bind fund herb fold rand fend find bärd verb ...
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... ships of war . Kings are men of high renown , Who fight and strive , to wear a crown . God created the heavens and the earth in six days , and all that was made was very good . To purloin is to steal . No. 33. - XXXIII . deed breed glee ...
... ships of war . Kings are men of high renown , Who fight and strive , to wear a crown . God created the heavens and the earth in six days , and all that was made was very good . To purloin is to steal . No. 33. - XXXIII . deed breed glee ...
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... ship has a tall mast . I like to see a good stone wall round a farm . A pear tree grows from the seed of a pear . A good boy will try to spell and read well . Do not lose or sell your books . A good son will help his father . I dwell in ...
... ship has a tall mast . I like to see a good stone wall round a farm . A pear tree grows from the seed of a pear . A good boy will try to spell and read well . Do not lose or sell your books . A good son will help his father . I dwell in ...
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... ship with ropes . The beams of a wooden house are held up by posts and joists ; these are parts of the frame . God makes the ground bring forth fruit for man and beast . The globe is nearly round like a ball . The dark cloud will shed ...
... ship with ropes . The beams of a wooden house are held up by posts and joists ; these are parts of the frame . God makes the ground bring forth fruit for man and beast . The globe is nearly round like a ball . The dark cloud will shed ...
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ACCENTED al low ÂRE āte BÄR bil i ty BĨRD BỎN BULE CÂRE çen çent çep çer ÇH=SH cial cious çişm consonant denotes digraph diphthong diş eāte eŎn eôr EXIST FALL FOLLOWING WORDS FOOT GÂRE HẼR 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 RULE sion sive SỎN sound SYLLABLES tain těn THÊRE THREE SYLLABLES tial tion eon tion ex tious tive trae tūre ū lar ū lāte ū lous UNMARKED ūre Verbs vowel WHẠT WOLF WORDS OF FOUR WORDS OF THREE
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Page 139 - APPLES. AN old man found a rude boy upon one of his trees stealing apples, and desired him to come down ; but the young sauce-box told him plainly he would not. "Won't you ?" said the old man, " then I will fetch you down...
Page 141 - 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.
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Page 141 - One of your oxen," continued he, "has been gored by an unlucky bull of mine, and I should be glad to know how I am to make you reparation." " Thou art a very honest fellow," replied the Lawyer, " and wilt not think it unreasonable that I expect one of thy oxen in return." " It is no more than justice...
Page 139 - Won't you ?' said the old man ; ' then I will fetch you down ;' so he pulled up some tufts of 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,' said the old man, 'if neither words nor grass will do, I must try what virtue there is in stones.
Page 173 - This host of successful Webster owners who are satisfied with Webster service, who have their needs anticipated and supplied, whose questions about new and old words, noted persons and places, questions of what, why and how, here answered with the authority of the world's scholars, should encourage the young man or woman, even though near the foot of the ladder, to profit from the same service. The one who knows wins success. Write for specimen pages, illustrations, etc. Free, a set of poc^ci maps...
Page 143 - However, making a virtue of necessity, he forbore to complain ; and comforted himself with reflecting, that no bliss is perfect ; that good and evil are mixed, and flow from the same fountain. These briars indeed, said he, will tear my skin a little, yet they keep off the dogs.
Page 44 - It is as certain to follow, as that the sun will rise in the east and set in the west tomorrow.
Page 86 - Again, the happiness of the next life is represented to us in holy Scripture as a treasure. Our Saviour bids us ' lay up for ourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through and steal.