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Example sentences for "larnt"

Lexicographically close words:
larmes; larn; larned; larning; larns; larrikin; larrikins; larrup; larst; larum
  1. Never lak de Missus to cut my baby hair off neither when I had larnt it to curl.

  2. I 'members one time I been nu'se little boy baby en I is larnt he hair to curl jes uz pretty.

  3. Miss Susan larnt Aun' Cynthia en Starrah en Tenna to cut en sew dere to de big house en a'ter dat dey ne'er do nuthin but make de plantation clothes.

  4. My Missus larnt (learned) she how to cut en sew so she been good uh seamstress is dere wuz anywhey.

  5. I done tried to live right, to keep all de laws, and to pay up my jus' and honest debts, cause mist'ess larnt me dat.

  6. She done her best to raise me right, and de ways she larnt me is done stayed wid me all dese years; many's de time dey's kept old Paul out of trouble.

  7. I still got some of de wuk dat she larnt me to do.

  8. It sho made me proud to hear him say dat, for I knows dat old Miss up yonder kin see dat de little Nigger she tuk in and raised is still tryin' to live lak she larnt him to do.

  9. Mistis larnt me to be neat and clean in evvything I done, and I would walk 'long de road a-knittin' and nebber miss a stitch.

  10. Us used to holp de older slaves git out whiteoak splits, and dey larnt us to make cheer bottoms and baskets out of dem splits.

  11. So when our little missies went to school dey come home an' larnt Celia how to read an' write.

  12. My Old Marster done larnt me how to gyarden.

  13. She larnt me how to make my dresses, and de fust one I made all by myself was a long sight too big for me.

  14. Tew times tew use to be four when I larnt the rewl of three in old Varmount.

  15. I've larnt why Colly could not eat his dinner yesterday.

  16. I've larnt that the nager's anger with Colly is all a pretince, an' that she is an old she-schemer.

  17. They've got so high larnt they contradicts Scripter, what plainly tells us that the sun rises and sets.

  18. Well, I'm agin all high larnt fellers what preaches grammar and Greek fur a thousand dollars a year.

  19. He larnt 'bout dem in de piney woods from he old granny.

  20. She larnt them fine manners and combs out they hair.

  21. Some niggers larnt to write their initials on the barn door with charcoal, then they try to find out who done that, the white folks, I mean, and say they cut his fingers off iffen they jus' find out who done it.

  22. I larnt all dem spells from my daddy and mammy and de old folks, and most of dem things works iffen you tries dem.

  23. Dey larnt me to weave cloth and sew, and my brudder am de shoemaker.

  24. I's larnt to ride some on de plantation and soon I's de good rider and I likes dat work best.

  25. Mammy and my grandma am cooks and powerful good and dey's larnt me and dat how I come to be a cook.

  26. You see, his mother had larnt him a prayer, an' telled him he mun say it to hissen every neet afore he gat into bed.

  27. I've clean forgotten most pairt o' what I've larnt misel about t' birds.

  28. It shows you've larnt your dog tricks,--nothin' more.

  29. I larnt that little matter of law from brother Eldad, the lawyer, but I guess I was wrong there.

  30. Guess I do; but let old Connecticut alone; us Slickville boys always find a way to dodge in or out embargo or no embargo, blockade or no blockade, we larnt that last war.

  31. I never forgot that lesson though, it was kicked into me: and lessons that are larnt on the right eend, ain't never forgot amost.

  32. Your father always larnt all that come handy to him.

  33. If not much o' a scholar otherways, Zeb'lon Stump hev larnt to do thet.

  34. While giving him the lesson, I larnt that it was my head that was drunk: for my legs and arms did their duty.

  35. We larnt him manners, by tying and gagging him, as well as his first officer, and steward.

  36. If you interfere, you'll be larnt some yourself.

  37. That last spree, when I came so near losin' it, has larnt me manners.

  38. I knew you would be; and some one has larnt you manners.

  39. Dey was bad and I warn't 'lowed to read nothin', but Ma larnt me to do a little sewin'.

  40. Granny Rose larnt me to keep clean and fix myself up nice, and, Honey, I ain't got too old to primp up now.

  41. Mammy had done larnt me how to wuk, and I didn't know nothin' else but to go ahead and wuk for a livin'.

  42. They never had larnt to read the songs they sung at funerals and at meetin'.

  43. He larnt us to read de Bible, but on some of de plantations slaves warn't 'lowed to larn how to read and write.

  44. Thou foolish son," the old man said, "Thou hasn't but one half larnt thy trade!

  45. Theere, that's po'try for yo' as I larnt i' my youth.

  46. I often think of a lesson I larnt Jehiel Quirk once, for letten his tongue outrun his good manners.

  47. They larnt that of the British, who are actilly so full of it, they remind me of Commodore Trip.

  48. In a little time he larnt the trade real complete.

  49. Flounder used to say he larnt lots o' things of me.

  50. But he's larnt our ways now, an' he's jest as civilized as the rest of us.

  51. I larnt yew and Mary to spell, and I mind the time when yew was a bit of a lad wi' a turned-up nose and squinty eyes.


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