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3. After we had driven about a league and a half, a raging wave,
mountain high, took us with such fury that it overset the boat, and,
separating us, gave us hardly time to cry, "Oh, God!"
Questions and Notes. What words in the above paragraphs contain the
digraph _ea_? What sound does it represent in each word? What other
digraphs are found in words in the above paragraphs? What silent
letters? What principle or rule applies to _condition? having?
distress? getting? committed? eleven?_ What is peculiar about _thought?
lives? laid? mercy? blew? pieces? mountain? league? half? could?_ Compare
_ei_ in height and _i_ alone in _high_. Think of _nothing_ as _no thing._
To remember the _ie_ in _piece,_ remember that _pie_ and _piece_ are
spelled in the same way. _Separate_ has an _a_ in the second syllable--
like _part,_ since _separate_ means to "_part_ in two." You easily the
word PART in SEPARATE, Observe that _ful_ in _dreadful_ has but one _l_.
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4. That wave carried me a vast way on toward shore, and having spent
itself went back, leaving me upon the land almost dry, but half dead
with the water I had taken into my lungs and stomach.
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