As he spoke very good English, I asked him where he had learnt it.
I asked him how it was he knew how to handle a scythe, not being bred up a farming man; he smiled, and said that, somehow or other, he had learnt to do so.
Who knows how much Aurelius and how much the world may have gained from such conversation as this with a mother from whom he had learnt to hate even the thought of evil?
I had learnt by this time that metallic cords so twined serve in Mars most of the uses for which chains are employed on Earth, and I assumed that this symbol possessed the significance which poetry or ritual might attach to the latter.
Captain Bontnor had learnt a great deal during the last few days; among other things he had learnt to love his niece with a simple, dog-like devotion, which had a vein of pathos in it for those who see such things.
It was partially the fact that Cipriani de Lloseta had moved with the times--had learnt, perhaps, too well, to acquire that reserve which is daily becoming more noticeable among men.
From long association with men she had learnt a manlike reticence.
He spoke of what he had learnt of the forest guards' behaviour in the village, and of Bomolo's outrage in particular.
In other circumstances, as black darkness wrapt him round, Jack might have felt not a few tremors; from Samba he had learnt something of the perils of night in densely-wooded places.
Jack wondered if he had learnt of the formation of the new camp.
She was snatched out of the world as soon almost as she had made her appearance in it, like a jewel of high price just shown a little, and then put up again, and we were deprived of her by that time we had learnt to value her.
Already he had learntto use the pen, and a loyal pamphlet secured for him a public appointment which lasted for some years.
He had offended her deeply, had treated her unworthily, the more unworthily seeing that he had learnt to love her, and Eleanor could not bring herself to abandon her revenge.
He had learnt to be silent, and now she had made him talk and the result had been an uncouth failure.
Its values, which he had learnt to judge coldly and dispassionately, weighing one against another, were shifting like sand.
What had been the profit of the tongues which I had learnt?
Yet, let him make use of that pleasant new sound that he had learnt, and he was in disgrace.
Of course," said John politely, but feeling within him that warning of approaching sentiment that he had learnt by now so fundamentally to dread.
Christopher drew himself up to attention as he had learnt to do when under rebuke as a boy.
It was always there with its whispering, mocking echo, but like a good fighter he had learnt to withstand its insidious temptations, and hold fast to the quiet, secure present where all he could know of joy or fulfilment was centred.
Christopher thought he knew very little about it, but he had learnt what he set out to know and was moreover now aware that the subject was distasteful to Aymer, so he politely changed it.
He attempted to apply to legislation habits he had learnt in diplomacy.
He had not been at Frankfort a year before he had learnt to look on this hostility of Austria as unsurmountable.
He had learntat Frankfort sufficient to make this indifferent to him, but he still regarded them as foreigners and looked on their claims merely from the point of view of Prussian interests.
From Mbutu he had learnt that a Bahima village usually contained some twenty huts, with a total population of perhaps a hundred and fifty.
Then Tom brought into play a trick of Japanese wrestling he had learnt from a ship's engineer, who had taken advantage of visits to the island empire to make a study of methods unrecognized and unknown in Cumberland and Cornwall.
Not for a moment did he close his eyes, but when he felt drowsiness stealing upon him he rose and walked to and fro before the hut, murmuring the half-forgotten words of some fetish spell he had learnt when a child.
He did not wait for her answer, but told her of his abrupt departure from the flat, and of his subsequent visit to Miss Van Tuyn, of what he had learnt at the hotel, and of what he had done there.
She who had been horribly restlesshad learnt to be still.
He knew that whenever they met he would feel her attraction; but he now classed it with those attractions of the past which were disgustingly explicable, and which just recently he had learnt to understand in a way that was almost old.
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