Instructive

Examples

• Let us enjoy five minutes of instructive conversation with her. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• During the intervals of pain from this grievous disease, he spent many cheerful hours, conversing in the most agreeable and instructive manner. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I will do what I can, Drusilla, to please you, with a look of surprise, which was at once instructive and terrible to see. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In fact, it has become the familiar scientific toy of man, woman, and child, interesting, instructive, and useful to all. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• For the senses and muscles are used not as organic participants in having an instructive experience, but as external inlets and outlets of mind. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• However this may be, the phenomena which it presents are both interesting and instructive. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It would be instructive, but scarcely within the scope of the narrative, to conduct the reader through this extensive plant and see its many interesting operations in detail. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The evolution and development of the spoon into the graceful and beautiful forms in use on our tables is fascinating and instructive. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The opposition was instructive. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A simple case, and yet, in some ways, an instructive one, Holmes remarked, as we travelled back to town. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Nothing is more instructive than a socialist experience meeting at which everyone tries to tell how he came to be converted. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I suppose you consider this an instructive practice for him, said Augustine, drily. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The latter is always instructive. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Please, ma'am, could I inquire if this highly instructive and charming institution is a new one? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Who can tell what stories of interesting and instructive knowledge would be in our possession if the phonograph had appeared in the ages of the past, and its records had been preserved? Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• This is most interesting and instructive, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Well, there is nothing very instructive in all this. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• On the other hand, speeches of famous men, national songs, magnificent opera selections, and other pleasing and instructive productions can be reproduced fairly accurately. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• There is also in late years a great variety of entertaining and instructive apparatus in photography, and improvements in the stereopticon and magic lantern. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• She can hardly be named Lizzie, I think, Mary Anne,' returned Miss Peecher, in a tunefully instructive voice. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It is to that end that authorities in each of the industries presented have co-operated in the compilation of this interesting and instructive volume. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But the maiden herself was most instructive. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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