Some words pronounced alike. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own. 1. Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. - HOMER. 2. The fondest hope That ever soared on fancy's wildest wing! - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 3. It is the hour when from the boughs 4. The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. - CHARLES H. SPURGEON. Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 6. Every creature, female as the male, Stands single in responsible act and thought. - ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. 7. As from the road with sudden sweep The Mail drove up the little steep, And stopped beside the tavern door. A useful prefix. un means not or the opposite act; as, unsafe, not safe; untie, the opposite of tie, to loose. 2. Why should we yet our sail unfurl? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl. 3. Far up the blue sky, a fair rainbow unrolled Its soft-tinted pinions of purple and gold. 4. And the flower, as it listens, unconsciously dips, Till the rising wave glistens and kisses its lips. 5. And thanks untraced to lips unknown Shall greet us like the odors blown From unseen meadows newly mown. - JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. 6. Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. 7. The earth unfolds her loveliness to the just and to the unjust.-Gail Hamilton. 8. It is better to be unborn than untaught; for ignorance is the root of misfortune. - PLATO. Some words pronounced alike. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own. 1. Some glory in their birth, some in their skill, Some in their wealth. - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 2. I waked every morning with the belief that some one was tipping up my berth. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 3. It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free; WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 4. Ah, thought I, thou mourn'st in vain! None takes pity on thy pain: Even so, poor bird, like thee, None alive will pity me.-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 5. Society is now one polish'd horde, Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored. - GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON. 6. Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn!-JOHN GREENLEAF WHittier. A useful prefix. mis means wrong or wrongly; as, misconduct, wrong conduct; misjudge, to judge wrongly. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 1. King's misdeeds cannot be hid in clay. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 2. History, which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. - EDWARD GIBBON. 3. I saw an uneasy change in Mr. Micawber, which sat lightly on him, as if his new duties were a misfit.-CHARLES DICKENS. 4. Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away. 5. Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence. - GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON. 6. And who would murmur and misdoubt, When God's great sunrise finds him out? 7. It is not safe for any man to ride so near the edge of disaster that if he makes one misstep it will plunge him into ruin. - HENRY Ward Beecher. Caution. Do not double the s in mis, and do not drop the s when the root word begins with s. Some words pronounced alike. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own. To heaven their bald and blacken'd cliffs, and bow Their tall heads to the plain. - George D. Prentice. 2. There are some people that never see anything, if it is as plain as a hole in a grindstone, until it is pointed out to them. - OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 3. The slanting sunbeams shone through the transparent shavings that flew before the sturdy plane. — GEORGE Eliot. 4. Oh, for a lever that would lift Thought to a higher plane! — ALICe Cary. 5. The sounding aisles of the dim woods rang 6. And then there was a little isle, Which in my very face did smile, The only one in view. - GEORGE GORDON, Lord Byron. 7. For her I'll dare the billows' roar, For her I'll trace a distant shore. - ROBert Burns. |