ous means full of; 1. Copy carefully. A useful suffix. as, joyous, full of joy. 2. Write from dictation. 1. The airs and streams renew their joyous tones. 2. And early, ere the odorous breath of morn Awakes the slumbering leaves. — JOHN MILTON. 3. The envious will die, but envy never.-MOLIÈre. 4. I stood upon the hills, when heaven's wide arch Was glorious with the sun's returning march. -HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. 5. Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle. -CHARLES H. SPUrgeon. 6. The wilderness has a mysterious tongue. - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 7. Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; wise enemy is worth more. -LA FONTAINE 8. I hear the bell's melodious din, I hear the organ peal within. - HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. 9. Whose humorous vein, strong sense, and simple style, May teach the gayest, make the gravest smile. -WILLIAM Cowper. Some words pronounced alike. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own. 1. And if thou want'st a cord, the smallest thread That ever spider twisted Will serve to strangle thee. - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 2. Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure, 3. - ROBERT Thrill the deepest notes of woe. — Robert Burns. Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There is no caste in blood. - EDWIN ARNOLD. 4. The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 5. As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 6. Aurora had but newly chased the night, 7. And the maize-field grew and ripened, -JOHN DRYden. - HENRY WADSWORTH Longfellow. 8. Through the verdant maze Of sweetbrier hedges I pursue my walk. -JAMES THOMSON. A useful suffix. able means able to be, fit to be, or causing; as, eatable, fit to be caten; bearable, able to be borne. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 1. To be loved, be lovable. OVID. 2. A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar. 3. Animals are such agreeable friends-they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. - GEORGE ELIOT. 4. There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to 5. put on your overcoat. — JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. — SIR WALTER Scott. 6. The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent. 7. Think'st thou it honorable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs? - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 8. His coat-sleeves being a great deal too long, and his trousers a great deal too short, he appeared ill at ease in his clothes, as if he were in a perpetual state of astonishment at finding himself so respectable. CHARLES DICKENS. Some words pronounced alike. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own. 1. The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls. -HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. 2. Thus going the rounds of the neighborhood, with all his worldly effects tied up in a cotton hand kerchief. WASHINGTON IRVING. 3. The lav'rock shuns the palace gay, And o'er the cottage sings; For nature smiles as sweet, I ween, To shepherds as to kings. - ROBErt Burns. 4. By fire and storm, Heaven tries the Christian's worth, And joy departs, to wean us from the earth. 5. As bees fly home with loads of treasure, The minutes wing'd their way with pleasure. ROBERT Burns. 6. How many thousand of my poorest subjects - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. A useful suffix. ful means full of; as, joyful, full of joy. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 1. These are certain signs to know, Faithful friend from flattering foe. 2. A voice of sorrow swells in every gale, - FELICIA D. HEMANS. 3. To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. - OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 4. Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. - JOHN MILton. 5. More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us. GEORGE ELIOT. 6. From room to room I hear the wakeful clocks Challenge the passing hour. 7. Applause from old friends and neighbors is the most grateful that ever reaches human ears. 8. Nothing is more useful than silence. -MENANDer. 9. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth. |