Miss Pike could not but observe the sparkle of satisfaction in some faces, and the gloom of disappointment in others; and she rejoiced with the good spellers and grieved with the poor ones, like the dear, kind woman she was.
For some time the numbers were about even; but as Fred Allen invariably missed, and there were Jack Townsend and other poor spellers below him to keep him company, Captain James began to have a decided advantage.
There he stood, and there he was likely to stand, and Jack Townsend, too, while the favorite spellers with ill-concealed satisfaction were walking back and forth conquering and to conquer.
There was breathless interest in it, for, as the best spellers would naturally be chosen first, the whole school sat waiting and hoping.
As soon as the different schools had arrived two of the best spellers were selected to choose sides, and it happened that neither of them was from our school.
The school-master from our district noticed my woebegone appearance, and he arose from his seat and said: "That boy standing by the fireplace is one of the best spellers in our school.
The first failures (and usually upon comparatively easy words) were greeted with some laughter, and the ridiculed spellers sought their seats with hanging heads.
Now, as the situation became more strained, the audience applauded when one of the spellers overcame a more than ordinarily difficult word.
Inveigh" dropped so many that it was indeed a massacre, and some of the nervous spellers got together such weird combinations of letters to represent that single word that the audience was soon in a very hilarious state.
Old master had them blue back spellers and 'fore freedom sometimes he'd make us learn our ABC's.
They would have them blue-back spellers and McGuffy's reader.
Now at this time McGuffey's spellers were the only spellers used in all the schools.
Of course in order to read we are obliged to observe the forms of words in a general way, and if this were all that is needed, we should all be good spellers if we were able to read fluently.
Just as the captains were completing their selections of spellers the door opened and three strangers entered the school-room, overcoated and furred to the tips of their noses--two men and a woman.
Possibly it was the presence of the strangers that rattled and unnerved the famed spellers of both sides, for it was not long until the lines had dwindled to almost nothing.
The crack spellers of District Number 34 would challenge the crack spellers of the Sinking Spring School.
They had put me in a seat near the fire; the spellers lined either wall, and a goodly number that refused to spell occupied the middle seats.
The master had mowed down all but a few, his opponents had given up the battle, and all had lost their keen interest in a contest to which there could be but one conclusion, for there were only the poor spellers left.
Some spellers are born, and not made, and their facility reminds one of the mathematical prodigies that crop out every now and then to bewilder the world.
And soon all present, except a few of the old folks, found themselves ranged in opposing hosts, the poor spellers lagging in, with what grace they could, at the foot of the two divisions.
The other spellers on the opposite side went down quickly under the hard words which the Squire gave out.
They've lost some of their best spellers on old Keyser's pronunciation.
The other aisle belonged to Cobbleville, and its line of spellerscame near being a double one.
The vocabulary contains several hundred euphonious and peculiarly significant words, heretofore not comprised in spellers of this grade.
All the children of these old Colony days, seated in front of her on the hard benches, bent their heads low again over their spellers or slates.
She put balm on their scratches, and covered their primers and spellers with pieces of bright calico.
The boy stood to it bravely, but the spellerswere giving out.
He did not stay for the praise the spellers wanted to give him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spellers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
