Common School Speller, Book 1B.F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1900 - Spellers |
Common terms and phrases
bake bale barque Beautiful bees birds booth cake child chintz choir clique cloth consonant Copy and Memorize Copy and Reproduce coward cried crumb dare DICTATION SPELLING ditch dive doth dwarf eggs fish fish for pike flies gill gold gourd gross heart hen hen hoof horse Jack kiln kind kite knead knob knucks lain LESSON Let me fly lief lisp little birdie Long & sound LONG VOWEL SOUNDS lute maize mice mole mouse never noun pen pen phlox Phoebe Cary pike Plural possessive singular pupil quail quire quoit quoth REVIEW scold SENTENCE SPELLING sheep SHORT VOWEL SOUNDS shred sing six pet sleigh slough snag speak Spelling book sylph thee theft thêre thieves thou truth verb whisp wind WORDS COMMONLY MISPRONOUNCED Xerxes yoke
Popular passages
Page 44 - What does little birdie say In her nest at peep of day ? Let me fly, says little birdie, Mother, let me fly away. Birdie, rest a little longer, Till the little wings are stronger. So she rests a little longer, Then she flies away. What does little baby say, In her bed at peep of day ? Baby says, like little birdie, Let me rise and fly away.
Page 86 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song ? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.
Page 52 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Page 97 - TRUE worth is in being, not seeming,— In doing each day that goes by Some little good — not in the dreaming Of great things to do by and by. For whatever men say in blindness, And spite of the fancies of youth, There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.
Page 90 - Let us gather up the sunbeams Lying all around our path ; Let us keep the wheat and roses, Casting out the thorns and chaff...
Page 90 - Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
Page 96 - Beautiful eyes are those that show, Like crystal panes where hearth-fires glow, Beautiful thoughts that burn below. Beautiful lips are those whose words Leap from the heart like songs of birds, Yet whose utterance prudence girds.
Page 98 - IF you've any task to do, Let me whisper, friend, to you, Do it. If you've anything to say, True and needed, yea or nay, Say it.
Page 88 - BEAUTIFUL faces are they that wear The light of a .pleasant spirit there; It matters little if dark or fair. Beautiful hands are they that do Deeds that are noble, good, and true; Busy with them the long day through.
Page 104 - They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.