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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's sentence.





- fallow deer - - steep - - silver birch - - hind leg - - fetlock - - neigh - - foal - - thatch - - writhed - - stooping -




Beyond the pool was a little low house of stone rooted with deep and ancient ____.

Aravis was ____ low over Hwin’s neck and seemed to be trying to draw her sword.

Rabbits scurried away in every direction as they advanced, and presently they saw a whole herd of fallow dear making off among the trees.

The roar and clatter of water the great swirl against the horses’ ____s, the cool, stirring air and the darting dragon-flies, filled Shasta with a strange excitement.

And he ____ inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand.

If you had been there you would probably have known (he didn’t) that he was seeing oaks, beeches ____es, rowans and sweet chestnuts.

At least he ran in the right direction: ran back. And that is what shames me most of all. I, who called myself a war-horse and boasted of a hundred fights, to be beaten by a little human by—a child, a mere ____, who had never been held a sword nor had any good nurture or example in his life?

It was making snaps at her ____s, and there was no hope now in her foam-flecked, wide-eyed face.

“Broo-hoo-hoo, the North, the green North!” ____ed Bree and certainly lower the hills looked greener and fresher than anything that Aravis and Shasta, with their southern-bred eyes, had ever imagined.

Then they began going up, and zigzagging a good deal, for the hills were ____.