Instructed

Examples

• Even the children were instructed, each to dip a wooden spoon into Mr. Micawber's pot, and pledge us in its contents. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The army was not accompanied by a pontoon train, and at that time the troops were not instructed in bridge building. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On returning from Mrs. Vesey's, I instructed Marian to write (observing the same caution which I practised myself) to Mrs. Michelson. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A lively altercation between us (in which Percival, previously instructed by me, refused to interfere) served the purpose in view. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Major-General Meade was instructed that Lee's army would be his objective point; that wherever Lee went he would go also. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I was instructed that this person's name was Mrs. Rubelle. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• To this they only replied with a smile of contempt, saying, that the farmer had instructed me very well in my lesson. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Halleck was at this time instructed to send all reinforcements to City Point. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In the accompanying illustration we see St. homas inspired by Christ in glory, guided by Moses, St . eter, and the Evangelists, and instructed by Aristotle and Plato. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He had instructed his bankers to forward some important business letters to Nice, and at Nice he would quietly await them. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• On their arrival the Jew clothed the boy handsomely and instructed him in the first rudiments of his art. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Mr. Moore, who was continuing his searches in that country, was instructed to arrange for the cultivation and shipment of regular supplies of this particular species. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The book from which Felix instructed Safie was Volney's _Ruins of Empires_. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Meade was instructed to watch the enemy closely and, if Lee weakened his lines, to make an attack. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In my first voyages, while I was young, I was instructed by the oldest mariners, and learned to speak as they did. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Is there anything so wonderful, in our being asked out to dinner by a man who owns himself inferior to my father by coming to him to be instructed? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Not precisely either; but I certainly am instructed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I am instructed to communicate to him, said Mr. Jaggers, throwing his finger at me sideways, that he will come into a handsome property. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It claimed that Gray was the original inventor, and instructed its lawyers to bring suits against the Bell Company for infringing on Gray’s patents. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• She instructed her daughters how to bear poverty cheerfully, and invented a thousand notable methods to conceal or evade it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I walked to the city without any concern, being clad like one of the natives, and sufficiently instructed to converse with them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• His apprentice, David Harry, whom I had instructed while I worked with him, set up in his place at Philadelphia, having bought his materials. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Chopper had been instructed to make out an account of all sums paid to Captain Osborne within the last three years. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And who instructed you, eh? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Some want their children to be better instructed than they themselves have been. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• They will be so instructed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There are two other points, said Mr. Lorry, on which I am anxious to be instructed. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Or is there any Homeric way of life, such as the Pythagorean was, in which you instructed men, and which is called after you? Plato. The Republic.
• So you have instructed a detective? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mr. Harthouse professed himself in the highest degree instructed and refreshed, by this condensed epitome of the whole Coketown question. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

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