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Some words pronounced alike.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own.

1. What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

2. Which is as hateful to me as the reek of a limekiln. - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

3. On me let death wreak all his rage. -JOHN MILTON.

4. In the coldness and the darkness all through the long night-time,

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My grated casement whitened with autumn's early rime. - JOHN Greenleaf WHITTIER.

I have every good

For thee wished many a time,

Both sad and in a cheerful mood,

But never yet in rhyme.-WILLIAM Cowper.

6. Lament in rhyme, lament in prose,
With salt tears trickling down your nose.

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Thou sat'st a queen. — FELICIA D. Hemans.

ROBERT BURNS.

8. How much a dunce that has been sent to roam

Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

- WILLIAM Cowper.

Some words pronounced alike.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own.

1. For her griefs, so lively shown,

Made me think

mine own. upon

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

2. The moon arose: she shone upon the lake, Which lay one smooth expanse of silver light.

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3. The summer grains were harvested; the stubble fields lay dry,

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Where June winds rolled, in light and shade, the pale-green waves of rye.

One of those

- JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.

With fair black eyes and hair, and a wry nose.

5. And then her hands she wildly wrung, And then she wept, and then she sung.

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-SIR WALTER SCOTT.

6. Harmonious concert rung in every part, While simple melody pour'd moving on the heart.

- ROBERT BURNS.

7. Mounts the stile with ease, or leaps the fence.

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Some words pronounced alike.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. italicized words in sentences of your own.

1. The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself for lack

3. Use the

Of somebody to hew and hack. - SAMUEL BUTLER.

2. 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

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3. That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

4. The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. - BIBLE.

5. In song he never had his peer. - JOHN DRYDEN.

6. Have raised you high as talents can ascend, Made you a Peer, but spoiled you for a friend.

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7. How wistfully would I wander about the pier heads in fine weather, and watch the parting ships!

WASHINGTON IRVING.

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8. Is not to-day enough? Why do I
Into the darkness of the day to come?
Is not to-morrow even as yesterday?

-PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

Some words pronounced alike.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own.

1. All the birds are faint with the hot sun. -John Keats.

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Oh, with what delight

Heard I that voice! and catch it now, though faint,
Far off and faint, and melting into air.

- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

Oh, stay! it was a feint;

She had no vision, and she heard no voice.

I said it but to awe thee. - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

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4. And the sun looked over the mountain's brim, And straight was a path of gold for him.

- ROBERT BROWNING.

5. Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill, Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will.

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6. Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. -BIBLE.

7. There, mildly dimpling, Ocean's cheek

Reflects the tints of many a peak.

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8. Out of personal pique to those in service, he stands as a looker-on when the government is attacked.

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A useful prefix.

in means not; as, indirect, not direct.

In words of Latin origin it regularly becomes il- before l, irbefore r, and im- before a labial; as, b, m, p.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation.

1. Inconstant as the beams that play

On rippling waters in an April day. - WILLIAM COWPER. 2. I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

3. The irregular, the illimitable, and the luxuriant, have their appropriate force.-THOMAS de Quincey.

4. An irresistible law of nature impels us to seek happiness. WILLIAM MASON.

5. It is not a lucky word, this same impossible; no good comes of those that have it so often in

their mouth. - THOMAS CARLYLE.

6. Boundless, endless, and sublime,

The image of eternity, the throne

Of the invisible.-GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON.

7. We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

8. How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! - Washington Irving.

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