Exercises

Examples

• And one woman has a turn for gymnastic and military exercises, and another is unwarlike and hates gymnastics? Plato. The Republic.
• Scraps of old copy-books and exercises litter the dirty floor. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper,' said Mr. Bumble. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It is not enough just to introduce plays and games, hand work and manual exercises. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I assure you, riding is the most healthy of exercises. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Those republics encouraged the acquisition of those exercises, by bestowing little premiums and badges of distinction upon those who excelled in them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• That science may be taught as a set of formal and technical exercises is only too true. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But really, John dear,' said Bella, flushed in quite a lovely manner by these exercises, 'will the new house, just as it stands, do for baby? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He stepped out of bed, stood straight, took a deep breath and commenced doing bending exercises. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• His best exercises were translations from the classics into English verse. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He subjected the servants there to the devotional exercises before mentioned, in which (and so much the better) he brought his father to join. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The speculative merchant exercises no one regular, established, or well-known branch of business. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She told me what exercises I should take and that I must not eat too much. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The state required that every free citizen should fit himself for defending it in war, and should upon that account, learn his military exercises. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Feeling the inutility of answering these charges, I mutely continued the correction of a pile of English exercises. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The women are, for the most part, trained, like the men, in warlike and other exercises; but they have two special occupations of their own. Plato. The Republic.
• Even then, I did exercises for other boys, and seldom did my own. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• We never are obliged to fix our attention or exert our genius; which of all other exercises of the mind is the most pleasant and agreeable. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• She is to be similarly trained both in bodily and mental exercises. Plato. The Republic.
• Persons acquainted with the Academy know that the corps of cadets is divided into four companies for the purpose of military exercises. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Though all unseen, and unsuspected by the pupils, Bradley Headstone even pervaded the school exercises. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The other supplied definite mental powers, which were few in number and which might be trained by specific exercises. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In ancient Rome, the exercises of the Campus Martius answered the same purpose with those of the Gymnasium in ancient Greece. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We indiscriminately employ children of different bents on the same exercises; their education destroys the special bent and leaves a dull uniformity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The political thinker who to-day exercises the greatest influence on the Western World is, I suppose, Karl Marx. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Those abuses of the freedom of speech are the exercises of liberty. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I hope he won't keep my old exercises so carefully. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Bradley Headstone was so remarkably awkward at these exercises, that the Rogue observed it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Each such group exercises a formative influence on the active dispositions of its members. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Not merely manual training specifically so called but many traditional kindergarten exercises have erred here. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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