It is very instructive to turn suddenly from Dante or Peter de Andlo to a book published shortly before A.
It is instructive to compare the results of the system of feudality in the three chief countries of modern Europe.
Moreover, as will appear more fully in the sequel, the history of the Roman people is an instructiveillustration of the influence of those ideas upon which the Empire itself rested, as well in their weakness as in their strength[327].
Nathan Drake, published in his Literary Hours (1798), are extremely instructive as indicating the critical standpoint of the time.
Between the Hebrew Bible and Shakespeare there exists some interesting and instructive points of resemblance, especially in respect of their ways of life and character.
All lovers of ecclesiastical lore will find the volume instructive and suggestive, while the ordinary reader will be surprised to find that the Cross in the churchyard or by the roadside has so many meanings and significances.
He has given us a valuable work of reference, and a very instructive and entertaining volume.
We accordingly find that reptiles furnish us with a very remarkable and instructive case of true mimicry.
The distribution of colour in butterflies and moths respectively is very instructive from this point of view.
But it is of the greatest and most instructive interest to give a succession of contrasts.
The long gathering anger and enmity of the various sections of the middle class against the corporate wealth which had possessed itself of so dictatorial a power, culminated in a manner as instructive as it was ineffective.
That is a very serious and instructive subject and is more important than you think.
The subject is instructive to those who wish to form themselves on whatever of excellence has gone before them.
At that ever-memorable and instructive period, the letter of the law was superseded in favour of the substance of liberty.
It is at the same time an amusing trick and an instructive experiment.
Compass Time Chart A very instructive little instrument can be easily made for telling the time of any location on the globe.
Now I have come to the place where I am to tell my readers the story of my travels in the Land of Promise, and I want to make it as interesting and instructive as possible.
It is his desire that the book may be interesting and instructive to its readers.
Gibbon calls this work on the Cæsars one of the most agreeable and instructive productions of ancient wit.
We may define a proverb to be a moral statement, instructive in object, and epigrammatically expressed.
It must be so strange to watch the great furnaces, where they fuse the copper and smelt the precious silver, gleaming through the pine woods, for they burn all through the night in the clearings of the forest.
Else," he said, "you may practise your little deceptive arts on all the rest of the family, but they will not do with me.
How many there are who, for the lack of a pleasant and instructive hobby, find their leisure hours the most dismal of all, and who complain of the toil and wearisomeness of their lot!
Those who take a delight in watching the movements of caterpillars are sure to be interested in observing them when at rest; for at such times the various attitudes assumed are as pleasing and instructive as are their active moments.
The archives of Stuttgart contain the instructive correspondence which the Duke of Guise had, ever since the previous summer, maintained with the Duke of Würtemberg.
I still spend my leisure time in reading, and on Sundays and holidays I know no greater pleasure than to read nice instructive books.
Apropos of which telling fact he informs us in the next sentence that "the history of Augustinianism is an instructive illustration.
This is an instructive work, compiled with much judgment and good taste from various authors, and is beautifully illustrated, making it a very desirable holiday present for the young folk.
Though more curious and instructive than amusing, this does not, however detract from the interest of the novel as such, but rather acts as an offset to the numerous scenes of connubial and filial affection with which it is replete.
This is the third volume of the second series of Young America Abroad, and, like all the rest of the series, is most instructive and entertaining.
We have not space here to go into the whole question, instructive though it would be, as showing the determination of this government to uproot the Catholic faith by every means in its power.
In exhuming from the mounds of these long-lost rival cities, the instructiveremains of this once gigantic Power, the Colonel discovered, in a perfect state of preservation, what is well believed to be the mummy of Nebuchadnezzar.
This silence of Scripture, so little satisfactory to our curiosity, may become an instructive lesson to our piety.
Pronounced by all who have read it to be the most fascinating and instructive book of its kind published.
Why these efforts came to nought would form a difficult butinstructive subject of inquiry.
Under these heads we append below some very instructive notices.
Right then I was ready to call it an absorbing and instructive evening and get to bed.
There had been the evening meal, followed by an hour or so of the always pleasing and often instructive talk of my hostess, Mrs. Lysander John Pettengill, who has largely known life for sixty years and found it entertaining and good.
This \example is very instructive and very encouraging; for it shows that even a steady gain of the Black over the White continued through a whole generation may yet be turned into a loss in the next generation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "instructive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
