Chambers's Graduated Readers, Livro 5W. & R. Chambers, Limited, 1894 |
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A. R. Wallace ac-com'-pan-ied ac-com'-plished ac-quaint'-ed adjectives are formed ADVENTURES ap-pre-hen'-sion archery arms arrows bamboo beautiful began Black Knight Borneo char'-ac-ter cloud Colter com-pan'-ion con-clud'-ed con-ver-sa'-tion coun'-ten-ance crocodile de-scend'-ing Dean Swift dis-tin'-guished Doocot Dyaks English ex-pe-di'-tion Excelsior EXERCISES.-1 fear feet fire Flaxman following adjectives following nouns following verbs following words George Somers glacier hand head heard heart hill horse Hubert in'-no-cence king knew labour land length lesson Lochinvar Locksley look morning Mungo Park Name the adjectives Name the nouns Name the verbs never night nouns are formed o'er Oliver Goldsmith passed pegs pendulum Pickwick pre-ced'-ed pre'-cious prefix Prince John raft replied Rhone river round Sam Weller sentences ship shore shot side snow spectacles stood stopped stream thee things thou took traveller tree turned vapour vessel village Wamba Washington Irving William Cowper Wimble Yoho
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