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Usage examples of speller.

We uncertain spellers, five or six ballet fans, sat in the gallery of the Stadttheater and looked on critically at the recital that the ballet master had ventured to stage with the help of Madame Lara.

So also was the Simplified Committee, with Croesus as foreman of the Revolt -- not a large man physically, but a simplified speller of acknowledged ability.

A morbid camaraderie has arisen between spellers, numbered placards drooping from their necks like turkey wattles.

Friends and relatives scan the spellers, trying to predict the blue ribbon winner.

The faces of her fellow spellers are featureless except for glinting eyes.

Looking into the eyes of the other spellers, she knows that her time has arrived.

In each press kit, spellers are listed by number, their names and vital statistics printed below their photos.

Eliza is one of sixty five spellers who will be returning to the stage.

We uncertain spellers, five or six ballet fans, sat in the gallery of the Stadttheater and looked on critically at the recital that the ballet master had ventured to stage with the help of Madame Lara.

Books came by the carload, by the ton: McGuffy's readers, old almanacs, spellers, arithmetics, out-dated novels and just trash.

The prospect of a leisurely pampered stay at Ma Cachette was being replaced by the certainty of a frenzied, sleepless search for the way to reverse an unknown spell by an unknown speller, probably buttressed with pitfalls of an unknown nature crafted to do in anyone silly enough to tamper with it.

But in her freshman year in high school she won the regional and went on to Jefferson City and won the gold medal for top speller in Missouri.

It had cost Adam a great deal of trouble and work in overhours to know what he knew over and above the secrets of his handicraft, and that acquaintance with mechanics and figures, and the nature of the materials he worked with, which was made easy to him by inborn inherited faculty--to get the mastery of his pen, and write a plain hand, to spell without any other mistakes than must in fairness be attributed to the unreasonable character of orthography rather than to any deficiency in the speller, and, moreover, to learn his musical notes and part-singing.