He's the boss speller of the Rio Grande, so much so they calls him "Spellin' Book Ben.
Then from half-past seven to half-past eight I'll drill you in that old speller till you can spell the cover right off it.
Why, I wanted my speller so much, and when I saw the schoolhouse roof sticking up above the trees, it made me think I could just as well run over there then, and so have my book at once.
The book which she had mistakenly brought for her speller was her mental arithmetic; they were much the same size, and she often mistook one for the other.
You and I will attack Mr. Speller every evening, and see if we can't vanquish him.
The best speller in this room is to recieve this medal," was the assurance on the board.
Fashioned by his fat, white hand, these words sprawled themselves upon the blackboard: The best speller in this room is to recieve this medal.
Johnnie, glancing about, reflected that, without question, Cis's speller had come from this very room!
Accordingly, there is no word in this spellerwhich has not been reported in one or more of these investigations.
Sarah Weathervane, "Jack is the best speller in school.
There was a great strife between Sarah Weathervane and Jack to see which should go to the foot the oftenest during the term, and so win a little prize that Mr. Williams had offered to the best speller in the school.
In the evening, 4 guilders ffor a speller and reader, and 5 guilders ffor a writer per quarter.
Hee shall receive ffor a speller or reader 3 guilders a quarter, and ffor a writer 4 guilders ffor the daye school.
Doby said: "The last page in my speller is the hard one.
She decided, "C'rect," if thespeller got his word right.
If the speller missed, he or she sat down wherever a seat could be found; but, as fast as words were spelled rightly, their happy victors were entitled to march to the heads of their lines, and so these were kept continually in motion.
Then he took out his speller and copy book and the words of their visitor were soon forgotten.
Then he ran down the little path to the gate in the paling that surrounded the cabin, his speller under his arm, and his high-heeled, buckled shoes making the dry leaves scatter as he went.
I had spelled down four schools, and my reputation as a speller was established.
Our school was declared to have furnished the champion speller of the four districts, and ever after my name was not the last one to be called.
He made a Speller which has sown votes and muskets; he made alone a Dictionary, which has grown, under the impulse he gave it, into a national encyclopaedia, possessing an irresistible momentum.
I hired my own time and with my blue-back speller went to the mountain to have this man teach me.
I secured a blue-back speller and went out on the mountain every Sunday to meet this gentleman, to be taught.
Its columns and battalions of words, ranging from the least spellable words to those that are octosyllabic and even beyond, all of which had to be learned by rote, made many an excellent speller of the English.
In the early days, the old blue-back speller was a sine qua non in the elementary schools.
A family of one brother and two grown sisters had only one speller between them.
I complained and sent word several times to their father that he ought to get a speller for each of his children.
It was a give-and-take battle, the successful speller having the right to give the word to the opposite side.
But Ranald, though his attendance was spasmodic, and dependent upon the suitability or otherwise of the weather for hunting, was the bestspeller in the school.
Of course, she must be a first-class speller and have a good knowledge of punctuation, though how far she will have to apply the latter knowledge will depend very much on what kind of proof she is reading.
No special talent is required, except that a woman should be a good speller and have a fair knowledge of the rules of punctuation.
The blue-backed speller is the best cure for crime in the mountains that I know of.
The sort of sentiments you have on hand now is the kind I l'arned myself out of the blue-backed speller when I was a boy.
Elizabeth and Rosie left their decimals and the Complete Speller to take care of themselves for fully an hour, while with their heads on the desk they wept bitterly.
She was the best spellerin the school and wanted to show off before the new boy.
Rosie came first, of course, but then Rosie not only knew every word in the Complete Speller, but was a Complete Speller herself in curls and a pink pinafore.
Isn't it wonderful beyond the circumference of belief, that a good speller and bad speller happened to misspell the same words?
Isn't it altogether more natural, more reasonable, more probable, to say that a bad speller misspelled the words than that a good speller did?
And yet he was well educated, studying algebra, going to the Normal school in Iowa, championspeller of the neighborhood.
Everybody admits that he was a poor speller, and is it not more reasonable to say that he wrote the will on the spelling, than that the champion speller did?
Will you say that this champion speller could not spell the word dispose, but wrote it "depose"?
It is a good one, well stated, and it is for you to decide whether the misspelled words were misspelled by a good speller or a poor speller.
We have shown that Eddy was the poorest speller in the business.
Then if an S and an I and a G And an H E D spell "side," There's nothing much for a speller to do But go commit siouxeyesighed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "speller" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: battledore; grammar; hornbook; manual; primer; reader; schoolbook; speller; text; textbook
