Rudiments

Examples

• Their bodies were smaller and lighter in color, and their fingers and toes bore the rudiments of nails, which were entirely lacking among the males. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• 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.
• Geography, as often taught, illustrates the former; mathematics, beyond the rudiments of figuring, the latter. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The petals in the imperfect flowers almost always consist of mere rudiments, and the pollen-grains are reduced in diameter. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• But I, who had more experience, could plainly observe some rudiments of it among the wild _Yahoos_. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Meantime better instruments had been secured, and the rudiments of telegraphy had been fairly mastered. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He was the first-born of Newland and May Archer, yet it had never been possible to inculcate in him even the rudiments of reserve. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• It is, nevertheless, a frequent practice to start in instruction with the rudiments of science somewhat simplified. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Nevertheless, in the Seraphic creature with the haymaking rake, were clearly to be discerned the rudiments of the Patriarch with the list shoes. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• For the workers of Myrmica have not even rudiments of ocelli, though the male and female ants of this genus have well-developed ocelli. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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