7. Know that the present alone is man's.' 8. 'I've heard the of the prisoned waves 9. On the waste and wreck-strewed shore.' sleep by day, and seek their food at night. § 2. Words analogous in sound, but differing in the mode of indicating the long-vowel sound common to each group. The long-vowel sound is usually marked in English ;— cede. 1. By a double vowel, as, seen, seed. 2. By a diphthong, as, mean, mien. 3. By the addition of e mute to the end of the word, as Laid, v. placed. Maid, n. a girl. Weighed, v. balanced. Lade, v. to load. Made, v. from to make. Wade, v. to walk in shallow water. 1. They keep a footman and three 2. Where have you servants. my books and slate ? 3. Joan of Arc is often called the of Orleans. 4. What you think I was going to by myself? the cart 5. The soldiers were obliged to leap from the vessels and to the shore. 6. "Thou art - in the balances and found wanting." 7. The Crystal Palace of 1851 was from the designs of Sir John Paxton: the glass of which it was formed more than 400 tons. 8. The first stone of London Bridge was in 1825. 9. The stream was so shallow that we could easily across it. 10. "There was a little captive Naaman's wife." who waited on 11. Cranes, herons, and similar long-legged birds, into the water in search of food. 12. After having them aside for the Break, v. to destroy. Steak, n. a piece of meat. the parcels of sugar he to fetch away. Brake, n. a bush; v. did break. Stake, n. a post; a venture of money, &c.; v. to venture. 1. 'He stayed not for-, he stopped not for stone.' 2. "The lions all their bones in pieces." 3. Take care you do not the window. 4. He felt that his character was at 5. The Abyssinians, we are told, sometimes cut from the living animal. 6. Call hither to the my two brave bears, Bid Salisbury and Warwick come to me.' 7. He is very unwise to all his fortune on the success of that speculation. 8. The owner of the second horse is to receive a certain sum out of the -. But bear-like I must fight.' 11. Forth from the the whirring pheasant springs.' 12. He was prepared to suffer any inconvenience his promise. rather than - Bail, n. a surety; a piece of Bale, n. a pack of goods. wood used at cricket. Hail, n. frozen rain. Pail, n. a vessel to hold water. Veil, n. a cover; v. to cover. Bale, v. to empty out water Pale, adj. dim, wan. Tale, n. a story; the full 1. We have shipped on board a vessel that is to -to-morrow, twenty of cotton, according to advices received by the last 2. And there lay the rider distorted and With the dew on his brow and the rust on his -.' 3. "The of the temple was rent in twain." 4. When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, over his face. he put a 5. Evesham's deep echoing Rang with jarring arms and armour, 6. Never tell out of school. 7. The magistrate refused to accept -. 8. The Norman ladies wore over their hair a cover or called couvre-chef, from which term we derive our word kerchief. 9. Herod ordered all the children in Bethlehem, who were under two years of age, to be put to death. 10. There will be a of household furniture at the house in the of Health, when I hope to buy several and tubs. 11. The squirrel has a thick, bushy --- 12. Soon after the Spanish fleet set storm arose. 13. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the storm.' and midway leaves the 14. The men formed a line between the engine and the pond, and passed the another. 15. The striker is out when the by the ball. 16. "Yet shall ye deliver the tofore." - - from one to are knocked off of bricks as here 17. The boat was so leaky that they could scarcely out the water quickly enough to keep it afloat. Deign, v. to condescend. Faint, v. to swoon; adj. weak. Dane, n. a Northman; a na- Feint, n. a pretence. 1. The first landed in England in A.D. 787. 2. The heat was so oppressive, that many persons 3. Heillness to escape doing his work properly. 4. He has grown so conceited, that he scarcely to notice his former friends. 5. 6. The 'All that of living or dead remain, Hurled on high with the shattered —, were defeated by Nelson at Copenha gen, A.D. 1801. 7. The enemy soon discovered that the attack was a mere -. 8. William ordered the Norman soldiers to a retreat, and thus drew the English from their ground. 9. would I climb, but that I fear to fall;' "If thy heart fail thee, climb not thou at all.' 10. To simulate is to, or to pretend to be what one is not. 11. Yet some to retired, and humble rites Performed to Thor and Woden, fabled gods.' 12. Henry IV. of Germany was himself before Hildebrand. 13. He who tells one falsehood is to maintain it. to humble to tell more 15. The Empress Maude, being besieged in Winchester Castle, to be dead, and so out in a coffin, and escaped. was carried 16. The soldiers were to live on fruits and herbs, and such fish as they caught in the rivers. 17. 'Imperial Charles, with grieving eye, beheld His palace burning and his - o'erthrown.' Rain,n.water from the clouds. | Rein, n. part of a bridle; v. Reign, n. the rule of a king or queen; v. to rule. to check. He 1. Old Parr died in 1635, aged 152 years. was born in the of Edward IV., and lived during the of eight kings and queens of England. 2. is very unequally distributed over the countries of the globe. In some districts it never at all. 3. The longest in English History is that of George III., who sixty years. 4. The coachman is driving with a new pair of —. 5. Alfred the Great began to in the twenty second year of his age, A.D. 871. 6. There is an old saying, 'It never but it pours.' |