Hazen's Fourth Reader

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: withdrew, keeping his eyes on the conquered brute The two thousand ducats were counted out and paid The lion shortly recovered. 19. With a universal gasp of relief, followed by deafening shouts and cheers, the spectators withdrew from the terrace, having witnessed a scene which they could never forget, and...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: withdrew, keeping his eyes on the conquered brute The two thousand ducats were counted out and paid The lion shortly recovered. 19. With a universal gasp of relief, followed by deafening shouts and cheers, the spectators withdrew from the terrace, having witnessed a scene which they could never forget, and which, as was said in the beginning, is still talked of throughout Tunis, y 1. Ferocious, incessantly, structure, obeisance, barred, ravenous, absorbed, behavior, crouched, unconcern, launched, self- preservation, developed, anticipate, imploring, pitiful, onslaught, espied, conquered, adversaries. 2. Why is the lion called the royal brute What animals have claws ? What is the meaning of the barred gate launched himself into the air scanning his victim crossing the lion in the air took flight ? X. LEAD PENCILS. 1. With what delight must the world of artists and writers of all kinds have hailed the invention of the blacklead pencil as we have it to-day 2. They had used the old-fashioned pen (made of the goose or crow quill) for designing and sketching, as well as for writing, and had cut sheet lead into strips for ruling. Some artists, indeed, had formed a mixture of common lead and tin, but the composition was hard, and faint in color, and not in general use. 3. I said the blacklead pencil; but, although the metallic part of this little implement is universally called blacklead, there is not a particle of lead in it. The black, smooth, and glossy substance is plumbago, and is a compound of carbon and iron. 4. Several varieties of plumbago are found in the rocks of different parts of the world, and it happens that one is fine-grained, soft, and nearly free from grit, and is thus well adapted for writing. This kind has receiv...