She loved to be out and about, and her two hours of lessons with her mamma in the afternoon were a grievous penance to her.
Exiled Frenchmen were obliged to acquire a more than superficial acquaintance with foreign tongues, if for no other reason, in order to be able to give French lessons in the country of their adoption.
The genius is in much the position of the clever head-boy in a stupid class; he has to listen to the same old lessons over and over again because of the dunces who have not learned them and yet must learn them.
The other lessons in these two courses are planned in the same popular style.
It's like taking lessonsin interpretation from these people.
In this series of lessons I have endeavored to set forth principles briefly and to confirm them by instances within the experience of every observer of childhood.
Are there any questions you would like to ask or subjects which you wish to discuss in connection with the lessons on the Study of Child Life?
His interest in machinery is keen at this period, and two or three lessons are usually sufficient to teach him enough about the mechanism to keep him from injuring it.
The illustrations have been prepared especially for this work and make the lessons of the story more impressive.
Lessons of personal cleanliness, the necessity for good food, fresh air and exercise are the truths which are the underlying principles of these stories.
Her memory was prodigious: everything remained that she had learned in her lessons or in the course of her reading.
All the young women of the court took lessonsfrom him, before their presentation, in making the three courtesies.
He also hit upon the idea of making me give lessons in order to increase our revenues.
Thus I owed him the best lessons I could conceivably have obtained, when, after a lapse of six months, he asked my hand in marriage.
But by degrees the preparation for the Sunday lessons became irksome and too much for her already overworked brain.
Nor did she disappoint her teachers, but threw herself into her lessons with an energy and interest which made it certain that she would rise to eminence among competitors for the prizes of learning proposed to her own sex.
It had sprung to fresh vigour now, from the lessons of calamity, from the pity born in him, from the new eyes with which he had looked on the boy in his mother's arms.
These increase in number and length as the book progresses, and, for the most part, are made an integral part of the lessons instead of being massed at the end of the book.
To insure more careful preparation, the special vocabularies have been removed from their respective lessons and placed by themselves.
It has been divided into chapters of convenient length to accompany progress through the lessons, but may be read with equal profit after the lessons are finished.
The first few lessons have been made unusually simple, to meet the wants of pupils not well grounded in English grammar.
The special vocabularies of the precedinglessons contain, exclusive of proper names, about six hundred words.
In the preceding lessons we have now gone over all the cases, singular and plural, of nouns whose nominative singular ends in «-a».
The last three of these lessons constitute a review of all the constructions presented in the book.
As they passed the old school of Friend Ruth, Dawn looked out hungrily and longed inexpressibly to be a girl again, studying her lessons and knowing little of the hardness of life.
Her lessons were always easily and perfectly learned, and she looked with contempt upon the plodders who could not get time from their tasks for the fun which she was always ready to lead.
What are the lessons or qualities in Mr. Wimbourne's play which the American people cannot stomach?
To dispense with this inconvenient metaphor, your actions will be the proof of what your lessons have been; every day your knowledge and principles will be brought into play,--you will be binding up sheaves of worthy or of evil deeds.
I was too busy with my lessons to bother about anyone, but I thought the girls acted rather queer this afternoon.
Thus Polly and Eleanor began to understand how important their previous lessons had been, and how necessary it was for every earnest student of art to be present at each class, that no connecting link in instruction might be dropped and lost.
Polly, the cause of all this secret concern of her friends, had forgotten all about the valentine, and was devoting her entire time and attention to the absorbing lessons at art school.
When the demonstration of these lessons began in the painting, the girls realized that they were actually going to be able to carry home samples of their work.
And Polly and Eleanor found, as Spring advanced, that lessons in night school were simpler and not quite so absorbing to their time, as those of the recent weeks had been.
Lessons went on as if there never had been a vacation, and on Wednesday evening of that same week, the art school resumed classes.
Perhaps," Anne remarked kindly, "the girls you graduate make something of themselves in life, whereas those other society girls merely skim over lessons and never know how to spell their own names.
So the lessons and lectures continued until the girls took up the study of colors.
I would sit beside her workbox and she would softly talk to me, and teach me my lessons and small rhymes to say; while my own impulse and instinct taught me to sing and dance.
Turn and turn about, on one Sunday evening she went to St Peter's and brought back with her the text and crucial fragments of Mr Crimble's sermon, and on the next we read the lessons together and sang a hymn.
Thus in my solitude I studied my lessons and read again and again my nursery favourites, some of them, I gather, now undeservedly out of fashion.
Oh, if it were not for my lessons I don't feel I could go on.
All this time--it is a grotesque touch which somehow adds to the pathos--he had never spoken to her, and had only seen her occasionally as she was taking her lessons at the Conservatorium.
She neglected no duty--that is, no apparent duty--and herlessons progressed swimmingly.
Betty went through her lessons with her accustomed force and animation, and there was no difference to be observed between her manner of to-day and that of yesterday.
We're going to have a real good time to-morrow, and we'll forget all about school and the lessons and the chapel.
There were to be no lessons that day; therefore they could spend their time as they liked best.
Mrs. Haddo is so unhappy about Betty that she wouldn't allow any of the upper-school girls to have lessons to-day, so she sent them off to spend the day in London.
She is busy at lessons now; so I would first of all suggest that you go to your room, and change your dress, and get tidy after your journey.
But for you Vivians we'd be toiling away at our lessons now instead of allowing our minds to cool down.
No lessons to-day for any of the upper school; so, girls, go at once and get ready.
She was very lively and bright at her lessons all day, and forgot Dickie in the other cares which engrossed her mind.
If it snows to-morrow,' said Plantagenet, 'we will do our lessons as usual.
One dreadful morning, when the lessons had turned out even more badly than usual, Mr. Murdstone seized hold of me and twisted my head under his arm preparatory to beating me with a cane.
Whatever you please, my dear:" that had been her brief history since she had left off learning morning lessons and practising silly rhythms on the hated piano.
Would that make it any better for my mother to lose the money she has been earning by lessons for four years, that she might send Alfred to Mr. Hanmer's?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lessons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
