Story of My Life — Vocabulary
Helen Keller
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Until then I had been like a foreigner speaking through an interpreter.†10 more

But when a great scholar like Professor Kittredge interprets what the master said, it is "as if new sight were given the blind."10 more

I was familiar with the story of Troy before I read it in the original, and consequently I had little difficulty in...5 more

I must have read parts of many books (in those early days I think I never read any one book through) and a great deal of poetry in this uncomprehending way, until I discovered "Little Lord Fauntleroy," which was the first book of any consequence I read understandingly.5 more

My parents were deeply grieved and perplexed.6 more

When her fingers were too tired to spell another word, I had for the first time a keen sense of my deprivations.†5 more

I fancy I still have confused recollections of that illness.†3 more

Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.†4 more

This vexed me and the lesson always ended in a one-sided boxing match.4 more

But during the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out.†3 more

my spirit reverently follows them into the regions where Beauty and Truth and Goodness are one.2 more

I knew it, it was the odour that always precedes a thunderstorm, and a nameless fear clutched at my heart.†1 more

My delight in them is as varied as my moods.†1 more

She was covered with dirt—the remains of mud pies I had compelled her to eat, although she had never shown any special liking for them.†3 more

Mildred and I grew into each other's hearts, so that we were content to go hand-in-hand wherever caprice led us,2 more

Meanwhile I trust and hope and persevere, and try not to let the bitter memory of "The Frost King" trammel my efforts.†1 more

My studies for the first year were English history, English literature, German, Latin, arithmetic, Latin composition and occasional themes.1 more

The prattle of the little ones and their pleasure in the stories I told them of elf and gnome, of hero and wily bear, are pleasant things to remember.†1 more

The ludicrous caricatures of the animals occupy my mind to the exclusion of the moral.†1 more

He was a famous story-teller; after I had acquired language he used to spell clumsily into my hand his cleverest anecdotes, and nothing pleased him more than to have me repeat them at an opportune moment.†1 more