Lessons

Examples

• No, I've done my lessons for the day. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I took four lessons, and then I stuck fast in a grammatical bog. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Amy was fretting because her lessons were not learned, and she couldn't find her rubbers. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• But now my mother, or, if you will, my mother's lessons, awaken within me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But if you went, I should persuade Mr. Thornton to let me give him double lessons. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I assure you he is very detestable; the Admiral's lessons have quite spoiled him. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• But if they are to be courageous, must they not learn other lessons besides these, and lessons of such a kind as will take away the fear of death? Plato. The Republic.
• It had been tried, but she suffered so much that it was given up, and she did her lessons at home with her father. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It is time for lessons. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I asked, Does he give lessons in deportment now? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It's a pity now, Joe, said I, that you did not get on a little more, when we had our lessons here; isn't it? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I have endeavoured to brave the storm--I have endeavoured to school myself to fortitude--I have sought to imbue myself with the lessons of wisdom. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• In the meantime, I learnt lessons at home. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• What quiet lessons I had about this time! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She has in the course of her lessons gone through much of Corneille and Racine, in a very steady, sober spirit, such as I approve. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He got horses for us; and Steerforth, who knew everything, gave me lessons in riding. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• If I proposed to be the teacher, or to attend the lessons--obviously incongruous! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It is possible to employ it as a kind of reservoir of anecdotes to be drawn on to inculcate special moral lessons on this virtue or that vice. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was indeed my misfortune to find them at that time not very perfect in their lessons, and the professor himself happened to be generally mistaken. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• After dinner, we immediately adjourned to the schoolroom: lessons recommenced, and were continued till five o'clock. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The tumult of cessation from lessons was already breaking forth, but it sank at her voice. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He gives lessons; that is to say, he reads with young men. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• A student can make in the laboratory sufficient charcoal for art lessons by heating in an earthen vessel wood buried in sand. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• With a few lessons, she had learned to do the proprieties of Miss Ophelia's chamber in a way with which even that particular lady could find no fault. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The mental and moral backgrounds of hundreds of millions of minds have been altered and are being altered by the stern lessons of this age. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Like one who had profited well by lessons learned from yourself. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Can she give lessons in anything? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I'll do my lessons every day, and not spend so much time with my music and dolls. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• When have you found me unmindful of your lessons? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Mary would sit and watch me by the hour together: then she would take lessons; and a docile, intelligent, assiduous pupil she made. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

Editor: Sharon