I know that yesterday he left the country, and at the same time I learnt that my benefactress, Miss Frick, is accused of the crime which I have committed.
Young Mr. Howell still lived in the house; he took a fancy to "ski" sport, and learnt it in a surprisingly short time.
Frick's L5000 was fast disappearing, when his lawyer was fortunate enough to discover some dark doings in Davis's life before the time when Frick had learnt to know him.
You must have learnt a lot of everything from your dear dead friend!
Will you be carving out at that church again next week, where you learnt the pretty hymn?
She adored roses, and what Arabella had witnessed was Sue detaining Jude almost against his will while she learnt the names of this variety and that, and put her face within an inch of their blooms to smell them.
I always saw there was more to be learnt outside a book than in; and I took my steps accordingly, or I shouldn't have been the man I am.
She addressed him as her dear cousin Jude; said she had only just learnt by the merest accident that he was living in Christminster, and reproached him with not letting her know.
Here he stood, looking forth at the school, whence he could hear the usual sing-song tones of the little voices that had not learnt Creation's groan.
You cannot by any means havelearnt my story, for there is only one man living who knows it.
It appeared that when I had failed to return to the hotel on that night when I followed Paolo to the den in the Bowery, Roderick had gone at once to the yacht, and there had learnt from Dan of my intention.
You see me, then, at the stage when I had got admission to the dock, but had learnt nothing of the vessel.
It may be learnt by listening to their conversation; Hernandez, who has introduced the subject, asking: "About the muchachas?
What the young officers saw of these men, and what more they learnt of them before leaving San Francisco, makes natural their misgivings, and justifies their fears.
The gentlemen have not yet put in an appearance; but who they are may be learnt from the dialogue passing between the two ladies.
Footnote: Kosciusko, noble of birth, and eminently brave in spirit, had learnt the practice of arms in his early youth in America.
When merchants had learnt the way, tasted the profit and established intercourse, the traffic might bear a tax, which, if laid upon it in its infancy, might suppress its growth.
Altogether the ceremonial very deeply impressed the Tibetans, who, without being humiliated in a way which could cause resentment, had now learnt to accord us the respect which was our due.
But Arabella had learnt to spare her brother feminine comment.
It must have been from him that Berwick had learnt that Mrs. Rebell was on the eve of becoming a free woman.
I seem to be the first Berwick who has learnt how not to spend!
He had just learnt from Miss Vipen of Berwick's solitary drive with Mrs. Rebell.
Wondering what was now in the wind, Frobisher went across to the Ting Yuen, to find the admiral anxiously pacing the deck awaiting him; and he soon learnt what it was that his superior required him for.
I have been mourning you as dead these three months and more, ever since I got back from the south and learnt of the disaster to the Su-chen on the Hoang-ho.
The most active and intelligent of the natives of Chamonix, Zermatt, and the Bernese Oberland now learnt to find their way even on mountains new to them.
Then welearnt that a great mass of ice had broken away under Maurer's feet while they were in the gully, and that he must have fallen had not Burgener pinned him to the rock with one hand.
Song was the language of her heart, and she hadlearnt by experience that it was a language which even the heathen could both use and understand.
Gorgo had met him with a doubtful and embarrassed air; but when she learnt of the blow that had fallen on him and his parents, she clung to him caressingly and tried to comfort him.
We belong to those who have learnt to 'look upwards'--there goes the ball, up again!
You have learnt to sing, and there is no better school for a woman's soul than music and singing.
This Porphyrius is a very rich merchant; we learnt that afterwards, and many other things.
He had afterwards learnt from the girl that her parents were Christians and had settled in Antioch only a few years previously; but she had no friends nor relatives there.
As soon as a printer had learntto print two folio pages together, it became easy to print four quarto pages, or eight octavo pages, or sixteen sextodecimo pages.
There was little loss in this, since if any artistic work had been attempted it would assuredly have been bad, whereas the craftsmen, when set to do quite plain work, gradually learnt to do it in a more workmanlike way.
Even when the printers had learnt how to print two folio pages at the same time the presswork remained very laborious.
In a sense this is true also of John of Westphalia and Gerard Leeu, notably of the former, who had learnt his art in Italy and by the type which he had brought thence raised the standard of printing in his new home.
All this, and much more, may be learnt from a careful study of the tombs of these prehistoric people.
In the early savage state of human existence the family is the only community; but as man progressed towards civilisation, he learnt how to combine with his fellows for mutual defence and support.
The fields and hills, and pleasant places she had learnt to love, shrouded themselves in gloom.
I learnt to read and cypher in the old log school-house at home, and my mother taught me the catechism on Sunday afternoons, and that is about all the book-learning I ever got.
Living for years in daily intercourse with his sister Graeme, he had learnt to admire in her the qualities that made her a daughter worthy of such a mother.
There are no birds like them here; but I have learnt to distinguish many a pleasant note among the American birds--not like our own linties at home, but very sweet and cheerful notwithstanding.
Miss Graeme, my dear, `They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength,' as you have learnt yourself long syne.
Mrs Snow, as they rose to go up the hill again, "it's a bonny place, and I have learnt to love it well.
But I learnt to love it for better things than stateliness, before very long.
On further inquiry, he learnt that lower down the river, at Ampuis, there was a ferry, which might not be guarded, and he determined to proceed thither without loss of time.
But I have been sorely troubled since I learnt that your highness was marching to lay waste the city, and determined, at whatever risk, to make an effort to save it.
They learnt all about Joe’s business in London, and it was a common greeting when they met in the evening to ask “how the pig was?
And I dreamt again, and methought there were three things with reference to London that Joe had learnt at school.
It was in Egypt they had learnt the art of trench-making, but they found this rocky clay very different stuff to shift from desert sand.
Enver Bey seems to have learnt his German pretty thoroughly,' put in Roy sarcastically.
To-day is an example; I have learnt something new about seagulls, and I am hungry.
She was one of those who hadlearnt the art of silence.
Lenora had been there and learnt her aunt's correct address in West Kensington.
He was shaken to the depths when helearnt from Pontitian that two young officials, like himself betrothed, had suddenly formed a determination to turn their backs upon the life of the world.
On landing helearnt that Caesar had made him his heir and adopted him into the Julian gens, whereby he acquired the designation of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus.
Increasingly occupied with the exact sciences, he learnt the incompatibility of the Manichaean astrology with the facts.
The Persian I had learnt went back on me, as it were, and I had to speak English.
I taught him how to write his name in English, and he learnt a few words also.
We learnt that His Highness the Amir himself was away in Turkestan, where he had been fighting his rebellious cousin Ishak.
I learnt a good deal about malarial fevers from a patient's point of view before I was well again, for I had three consecutive attacks of fever, each differing from the preceding one in its manifestations.
It is to be noted that the Amir will allow no representation of himself on vessels, stamps, or coins, and when I learnt this, I confess I was surprised that he wished his portrait painted.
This monument I learntwas erected by His Highness to the memory of those soldiers who fell in the last war against the British.
I have already related how that the Amir desired me to start an Art class, and with what success the artists learnt to draw.
He said that he never learnt Russian, but that he could talk Persian, Arabic, Pushtu, and Turki.
They are supposed to repeat the prayers to themselves, but the prayers are in Arabic, which very few Afghans understand: so that if they have learnt them by heart they repeat them simply as a parrot does.
Never had the people felt so keenly the pleasure of seeming at least to return to the simple life of earlier times, the rustic enjoyments of a nation that had not yet learnt to dwell in cities.
Our fathers learnt much when they sat mourning by the waters of Babylon, and we also are learning much in this our second captivity.
The little animals soon learntto play with the girls, and their dam sat by and watched their gambols, and sometimes even condescended to join in them herself.
The Commandment was one of the things which he had learnt at his mother's knee, and which he had solemnly repeated when, at the age of twelve, he had been regularly admitted to the privileges of a "son of the Law.
He learnt now for the first time that a little boy had been born who, had he lived, would have been about two years younger than Judith.
When I first came to Old Place, almost the first thing I learnt was that it was celebrated for its lobster pie!
So now we have the benefit of all she learnt there.
O'Farrell, it was impossible for him to have learnt through any ordinary human agency that Godfrey Radmore was coming to Beechfield.
After-dinner coffee had been made in a way Betty had learnt in France, and she had foolishly allowed him to drink a cup of the strong, potent, delicious fluid.
Here are your letters; through these I have learnt to love you, for here is what I revere in you.
While he was examining these, she began, suddenly: "You have now learnt to know us a little, and how do you like us?
You havelearnt the meaning which is concealed under a veil of civility.
The man was examined, he spoke little German, was said by the other servants to be harmless and simple, and nothing could be learnt from him.
He painted several coats of arms, and from the books he abstracted some respectful forms of speech, such as the servile language of our Government officials have sanctioned in intercourse with the great, and learnt them all by heart.
His personal relations to the young Princess appeared cool; in Court society he was treated by her with just as much distinction as was needful, and petitioners learnt sometimes that their requests were imparted to him.
It has been one of the little pleasures of my life; I have learnt much by it, and it has at times banished annoyances from my mind.
The Prince then quietly turned his attention to the great threshing-machine, and learnt to value the beautiful arrangement by which it threw out the straw into an invisible hayloft.
I am no man of the world who has learnt to conceal his anger beneath courtly words.
Nevertheless, she learnt more of their proceedings than was good for her composure.
I accidentally learnt the orders, which were given at the princely stables.
I have learnt that you are not that, but something different.
You have thus learnt and taught what is the highest possession of man.
Hailing a lesser native officer, he learnt that the Ressaldar had been ill with sun-fever all night, and was still quite unfit for work.
If a man has learnt nothing else by the time he is thirty-eight, he has usually gained possession of his soul, and at no stage of his life had Paul shown the least talent for taking a situation by storm.
And to-day, at least, you have learnt that when things are going hardly with Theo, it is kindest and wisest to leave him alone.
So I was born and bred in the great house, where I learnt to read and sew, to fear God, and to take my own part.
I made great progress in Welsh and English grammar, and learntto construe Latin.
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