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week, seven days; weak, not strong. Sickness makes the body weak. Seven days constitute one week.
wood, timber; would, past time of will.
weather, state of the air; wether, a sheep. The weather is colder in America than in the same latitudes in Europe. Among the flock of sheep were twenty fat wethers.
Some Sentences Illustrating Homonyms
The planks of vessels are fastened with copper bolts. Millers separate the bran from the flour by large sieves called bolts.
The breech of a gun is its butt or club end. A ram butts with his head. We import butts of spirits.
Clothiers smooth their clothes with calendars. Almanac makers publish new calendars every year.
Live fish are kept in the water, near our fish markets, in caufs. Consumptive people are afflicted by bad coughs.
Farmers are sellers of apples and cider, which are put into cellars. Mead is a pleasant drink. Lying is a mean practice. We mean to study
grammar.
Miners work in mines. Minors are not allowed to vote.
David moaned the loss of Absalom. When grass is mown and dried we call it hay.
Fishes are caught in a net. Clear profits are called net gain. A bird flew over the house. The smoke ascends in the flue.
Gums ooze through the pores of wood. The tanner puts his hides into ooze. The comma is the shortest pause in reading. Bears seize their prey with their
paws.
The peak of Teueriffe is fifteen thousand feet high. The Jews had a pique or ill will against the Samaritans.
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