Spelling

Examples

• After spelling it out slowly, the man made it into a little roll, and tied it up in an end of his neckerchief still more slowly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Why, as to the spelling of it,' returned Mr Boffin, with great presence of mind, 'that's YOUR look out. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The book had an alphabet in it, some figures and tables, and a little spelling,--that is to say, it had had once. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Zoroaster (the Greek spelling of the Iranian, Zarathustra), like Buddha, was an Aryan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He never wrote to me without asking for money in his life, and all his letters are full of bad spelling, and dashes, and bad grammar. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The literary style is good, there are only a few trivial slips in spelling, and the appreciation is keen of what would be interesting news and gossip. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She volunteered to copy many of his letters, and adroitly altered the spelling of them so as to suit the usages of the present day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Grubble, which Charley delivered as if she were slowly spelling out the sign. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We are camped near Temnin-el-Foka--a name which the boys have simplified a good deal, for the sake of convenience in spelling. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She had sat up of nights conning lessons and spelling over crabbed grammars and geography books in order to teach them to Georgy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Meg says my punchtuation and spelling are disgraceful and I am mortyfied but dear me I have so many things to do, I can't stop. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The spelling-book in question was, I think, written by a German. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

Typist: Rebecca