A Stem Dictionary of the English Language: For Use in Elementary SchoolsAmerican Book Company, 1890 - 282 páginas |
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... sounds are more or less obscure ; and the pronunciation will be substantially correct if the accented vowel receives its proper sound and stress . * The French language came to England with the Normans in A. D. 1066. It was not the ...
... sounds are more or less obscure ; and the pronunciation will be substantially correct if the accented vowel receives its proper sound and stress . * The French language came to England with the Normans in A. D. 1066. It was not the ...
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... sound ( sund ) sovereign segregate servile ( ser'vil ) social ( superan ) seignior ( sen ) servitude society space ( spati ) select sĕssile sōjourn ( diurn ) spasm selenography session solace special seminal setaceous sōlar spēcie ...
... sound ( sund ) sovereign segregate servile ( ser'vil ) social ( superan ) seignior ( sen ) servitude society space ( spati ) select sĕssile sōjourn ( diurn ) spasm selenography session solace special seminal setaceous sōlar spēcie ...
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... sounds , like the Greek alpha- bet , whose first two letters are alpha and beta . - Alt — high ; altitude ( height ) , altar ( an elevated table for sacrifice , or religious service ) , exalt ( lift up , on high ) , alto ( the lowest ...
... sounds , like the Greek alpha- bet , whose first two letters are alpha and beta . - Alt — high ; altitude ( height ) , altar ( an elevated table for sacrifice , or religious service ) , exalt ( lift up , on high ) , alto ( the lowest ...
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... sounds transpir'd , as when the enamor'd dove Pours out the soft murm'ring of responsive love . - Coleridge . Dozing , murmuring in its visions , lay the heaven - enamored lake . -Thomas Buchanan Read . Here , when art was still ...
... sounds transpir'd , as when the enamor'd dove Pours out the soft murm'ring of responsive love . - Coleridge . Dozing , murmuring in its visions , lay the heaven - enamored lake . -Thomas Buchanan Read . Here , when art was still ...
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... sound , also formerly the shortest note - in music ) , breviary ( a summary or short form of religious exer- cises ) , brevier ( a kind of type , such as was used in printing breviaries ) , brief , abbreviate ( to shorten ) . L. brevis ...
... sound , also formerly the shortest note - in music ) , breviary ( a summary or short form of religious exer- cises ) , brevier ( a kind of type , such as was used in printing breviaries ) , brief , abbreviate ( to shorten ) . L. brevis ...
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A Stem Dictionary of the English Language: For Use in Elementary Schools John Kennedy Vista completa - 1890 |
Términos y frases comunes
acrogen allopathy ancient Anglo-Saxon animal bear beauty belonging bird blood body breath bright bring Cæsar called carry cast cause Celts chevel cicatrix cilium conquer conquest coruscate crown dark earth English language feel flow flower gether give Greece Greek gynarchy hand head heart heaven Hence hendecagon holy king land Latin lepidodendron light literature living look lustrum Macedon maulstick ment mind moon nature night o'er one's originally pass patronymics pheme plant pleion poem primogeniture Ptolemy QUOTATIONS rise Roman Roman Senate Rome round shine sing sleep song sororicide soul sound speak speech spirit stand stars stem stone sweet thee things thou thought thurible tion tongue trees truth turn uxoricide voice Whittier wild word youth
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Página 266 - Their dearest action in the tented field ; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle ; And therefore little shall I...
Página 206 - And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track; And one eye's black intelligence, — ever that glance O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance. And the thick heavy spume-flakes which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on. By Hasselt, Dirck groaned; and cried Joris, "Stay spur! Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her, We'll remember at Aix...
Página 232 - To-day my Lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him as he lay along Under an oak whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood : To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt, Did come to languish...
Página 231 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Página 126 - tis not to me she speaks : Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
Página 64 - We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Página 106 - That, which is now a horse, even with a thought, The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water.
Página 178 - What you do Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, I'd have you do it ever: when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so; so give alms; Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too: when you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Página 190 - Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines How silently! Around thee and above, Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black — An ebon mass. Methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought. Entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Página 251 - And from the gray old trunks that high in heaven Mingled their mossy boughs, and from the sound Of the invisible breath that swayed at once All their green tops, stole over him, and bowed His spirit with the thought of boundless Power And inaccessible Majesty. Ah ! why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd, and under roofs That our frail hands have raised...