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Example sentences for "instruct them"

  • The private teaching of Negroes became tolerable, benevolent persons volunteered to instruct them, and some schools maintained for the education of white students were thrown open to those of African blood.

  • In the States of Kentucky and Tennessee friends of the race were often left free to instruct them as they wished.

  • A principal mean of effecting this purpose, would be to instruct them in the duties and obligations of religion, morality, and social justice.

  • It is not the spirit of a Christian to persecute any for their religion, but to pity them; and if they will turn, to instruct them.

  • And I would to God that it might be a warning to others, to instruct them to fear before God, and pray, lest he give them up to do as John Cox hath done.

  • The captain informed them of the purpose of his expedition, and that he had fathers to instruct them in the faith.

  • The captain received him well and said that he was coming to treat them well, and brought fathers to instruct them in the faith, and told them to treat the fathers with great respect.

  • He received them with much show of affection, asking them whether they desired religious to instruct them in the faith.

  • Some of them are indifferent, and we have not time to instruct them.

  • The guardians and tutors who had charge of them took much pains to instruct them in everything becoming their high estate.

  • The king's concubines, as we have seen in a former chapter, were always accompanied by certain elderly women, whose duty it was to instruct them in discreet behavior and to watch continually over their actions.

  • He was enjoined to bring up and educate his children near him, teaching all according to their abilities, to make them useful members of society, and to instruct them in habits of industry.

  • Dancing, and especially religious dances, formed an important part of an Aztec youth's education, and much trouble was taken by the priests to instruct them in it.

  • They are likewise to have able Masters to teach em the necessary Sciences, and to instruct them in all the Treaties of Peace, Alliance, and others, which have been made in several Ages past.

  • Be pleased, dear Sir, to instruct them to lose with a better Grace, and you will oblige' Yours, Rachel Basto.

  • I am about to undertake, for the sake of the British Youth, to instruct them in such a manner, that the most dangerous Page in Virgil or Homer may be read by them with much Pleasure, and with perfect Safety to their Persons.

  • The object of this establishment is to prepare distinguished regimental officers for the higher commands in cavalry, and to instruct them in the theory and practice of that arm, and the haute école of riding.

  • The Third is a sort of Language-Master, who is to instruct them in the Style proper for a Foreign Minister in his ordinary Discourse.

  • It is a principle of all attempts to instruct them, to appeal to them, to stimulate them, to move them, that the successive steps must increase in significance and impressiveness until the most moving details be laid before them.

  • Having secured those things he proceeds slowly and unobtrusively to instruct them.

  • If they will listen to him, he should be able to instruct them.

  • A third ordinance or Rhetra was, that they should not make war often, or long, with the same enemy, lest that they should train and instruct them in war, by habituating them to defend themselves.

  • Fear only that the omissions your pupils make through ignorance of the duties of that state may fall on you who have failed to instruct them in it.

  • Bouloc entreated her to instruct them on civility.

  • Although there were many things in their ancient forms of worship which in us awaken a sigh or a smile, we must remember that religion was then in its infancy--that they had but few guides, but few books to instruct them.

  • There were but few able to translate the gospels from the Latin into the Saxon tongue; such versions as they were enabled to make were crude and incorrect, and many of the priests were incompetent to instruct them in points of faith.

  • We have no proof that the early pagan Saxons possessed an alphabet, or had any acquaintance with a written language, until the introduction of Christianity; for, unlike the Britons, they had not the enlightened Romans to instruct them.

  • They will establish themselves near us, and we will be at hand to see them and to instruct them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    arsenious acid; bloodless coup; calls them; deviation from; especially from; firmly believe; first principle; had seen; half inclined; honorable friend; human knowledge; human speech; instruct them; instruction publique; instructions were; knees before; leagues distant; looked forward; mild cases; respectful distance; second lieutenant; should succeed; there had; who said