A useful suffix. y means having or full of; as, lucky, having luck; smoky, full of smoke. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 1. Behold, within the leafy shade, Those bright blue eggs together laid! 2. The sun looks o'er, with hazy eye, The snowy mountain-tops which lie Piled coldly up against the sky. - JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. 3. The bliss which wing'd those rosy hours Was such as pleasure seldom showers On mortals here below. - GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON. 4. Met by the rainbow's form divine Issuing from her cloudy shrine. - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 5. Where earth and sky in dreamy distance meet. -JAMES A. GARFIELD. 6. A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere. 7. A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue. 8. The stone hut was made a soft nest for her, lined with downy patience. - GEORGE Eliot. Some words pronounced alike. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. italicized words in sentences of your own. 1. Was smooth and even as an ivory ball. 3. Use the 2. In various talk the instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last. 4. On greasy steaks from chop-house did regale. 5. But they that fight for freedom undertake The noblest cause mankind can have at stake. 6. To one fixed stake my spirit clings; - WILLIAM Cowper. I know that God is good!- JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. 7. So when the sun in bed, Curtain'd with cloudy red, Pillows his chin upon an orient wave. -JOHN MILTON. 8. Aspen leaves that wave without a wind. - JOHN LEYDEN. 9. I have so great a love for you that I can waive opportunities of gain to help you. A useful suffix. less means without; as, homeless, without a home. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 1. The sacred river ran, Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. 2. The wild wind slumbers in its cave, 3. And heaven is cloudless-earth is still! - FELICIA D. HEMANS. Silence, and a stirless breath Blind, boundless, mute, and motionless! 7. And all the incense in the air springs from the speechless sod, Which has no other offering or way to worship God. - CHARLES MONROE DICKINSON. 8. Drown'd in yonder living blue The lark becomes a sightless song. - ALFRED TENNYSON. Some words pronounced alike. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. italicized words in sentences of your own. 3. Use the Of what coarse metal ye are moulded, envy! 2. How fine has the day been! How bright was the 3. sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run! -ISAAC WATTS. And pacing through the forest, 4. Choose an author as you choose a friend. 5. The lark sung loud the music at his heart, And bore in Nature's choir the merriest part. 6. With an ounce of poison in one pocket And a quire of bad verses in the other. -THOMAS BABINGTON, LORD MACAULAY. 7. Too late I stayed, - forgive the crime; Unheeded flew the hours, How noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers! - WILLIAM R. SPENCER. 8. O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue.-JOHN MILTON. |