Scholars

Examples

• I had amongst my scholars several farmers' daughters: young women grown, almost. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• There was a fiction that Mr. Wopsle examined the scholars once a quarter. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Most despicable would it be to come for the sake of those sheep-faced Sunday scholars, and not for my sake or that long skeleton Moore's. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• More scholars are turned out in the City of the Sun in one year than by contemporary methods in ten or fifteen. Plato. The Republic.
• Some time elapsed before, with all my efforts, I could comprehend my scholars and their nature. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The monasteries contained many monks who were excellent scholars. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But by that time all the scholars of the city were supplied, and it was very difficult to send the books to other cities. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• His majesty sent for three great scholars, who were then in their weekly waiting, according to the custom in that country. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I had twenty scholars. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It is a village school: your scholars will be only poor girls--cottagers' children--at the best, farmers' daughters. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Few scholars would have disliked teaching the alphabet under such circumstances. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Here he also resumed his earlier studies, and came to lecture on natural history and physics to all the great scholars of the day. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• To revive the ancient government you must have the ancient patriots, poets, and scholars. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Nothing could be better than all her arrangements for the physical well-being of her scholars. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I bethought myself to talk about the school and my scholars. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It was the Sunday scholars. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It is perhaps no accident that two of the greatest classical scholars in England--Gilbert Murray and Alfred Zimmern--are political radicals. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There were no free schools, and none in which the scholars were classified. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• When he taught at Athens, he is said to have had a hundred scholars. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He disputes with his majesty's great scholars. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The different governors of the universities, before that time, appear to have often granted licences to their scholars to beg. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Henry joined in the lesson; the two scholars stood opposite the master, their arms round each other's waists. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I don't wonder that your scholars like you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The scholars saw little or no change in their master's face, for it always wore its slowly labouring expression. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This monarch, though often engaged in war, found time to encourage learning, and drew t o his capital scholars and philosophers from Greece and other countries. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• If I can get the money no other way I will take music-scholars;--I could get enough, I know, and earn the money myself. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• On the contrary, I think in time I shall get on with my scholars very well. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Then he went in among the desks, to see the scholars' books. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Miss Halcombe began to read as follows:-- 'You will be tired, my dear Philip, of hearing perpetually about my schools and my scholars. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The reward of the schoolmaster, in most cases, depends principally, in some cases almost entirely, upon the fees or honoraries of his scholars. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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