sentences:  Webster returned to the house after graduation, and was engaged as a teacher at local schools.His interest in lexicography prompted a series of publications, beginning with a spelling book in 1783 and culminating in the publication in 1828 of his "Dictionary of the American Language", which sold millions of copies during his lifetime, and laid down basic principles for dictionaries and spelling books that are still used today.The house was continuously occupied as a private residence until 1962, when it was given to the town.