Some words pronounced alike. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own. 1. O, rivers, forests, hills, and plains! Oft have ye heard my merry strains. - ROBERT Burns. 2. The fall of waters, and the song of birds, And the hills that echo to the distant herds. 3. But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little and who talk too much. 4. The miser's sum of happiness is, always, — addition. 6. Sum up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. - - GEORGE HERBERT. 7. Trifles make the sum of human things. - HANNAH MORE. 8. Like the scent of a flower in its folded bell, When eve through the woodlands hath sighed farewell.-FELICIA D. HEMANS. 9. Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute. 10. O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent! Sound of n like ng, marked n. 1. Copy the following sentences. 1. 2. Write from dictation. A small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. - GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON. 2. Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. 3. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do. -JANE TAYLOR. 4. At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think. 5. Sweet Morn, I thank thee for thy sunny beams. 6. Rose! thou art the sweetest flower, That ever drank the amber shower. - THOMAS MOORE. 7. The twinkling stars began to muster, And glitter with their borrowed luster. SAMUEL BUtler. ... 8. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean— roll! . . . Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure browSuch as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. -GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON. 9. The flood of time is rolling on; We stand upon its brink. - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. qu = kw. 1. Copy the following sentences. 1. When the pebble-paven shore, 2. Write from dictation. Under the quick faint kisses of the sea PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 2. He hath a killing tongue and a quiet sword. - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 3. And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind. - HOMER. 4. Does the quail sit up and whistle in a disappointed Or hang his head in silence and sorrow all the day? 5. A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there are two. - SENECA. 6. "Thanks!" said the Judge; "a sweeter draught From a fairer hand was never quaff'd." 7. - JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. As soon go kindle fire with snow As seek to quench the fire of love with words. 8. There was tumult in the city, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. In the quaint old Quaker town. — ANON. 9. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, H Some words pronounced alike. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own. 1. Of all the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of the plums. — DOUGLAs Jerrold. 2. It took him a good many years to build it, and one could see that it was a little out of plumb, and a little wavy in outline.-OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 3. How calmly sinks the setting sun! Yet twilight lingers still; And beautiful as dream of heaven, It slumbers on the hill.-GEORGE D. PRENTICE. 4. The rich man's son inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn. -JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. dear son of memory, great heir of 6. This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep Did mock sad fools withal.- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 7. Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen. - HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. 8. To-morrow ere fresh morning streak the east With first approach of light. - JOHN MILTON. 1. x unmarked = ks. 1. Copy the following sentences. 2. Write from dictation. More true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. — ALEXANDER POPE. 2. We are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men. - JOSIAH QUINCY. 3. On my velvet couch reclining Ivy leaves my brow entwining, What are kings and crowns to me?-THOMAS Moore. 4. If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. 5. But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak? Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. X = gz 1. I think, therefore I exist. - DESCARTES. 2. Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 3. Ocean exhibits fathomless and broad, Much of the power and majesty of God. - -WILLIAM COWPER. 4. Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing. - ROBERT BURNS. |