Neither Literate Prestonby, the principal, nor the Pelton boy, who was supposed to be in his office, could be found.
Literate President Morehead, an amiable and ineffective maiden aunt in trousers, pounded frantically with his gavel.
Off in the distance, he caught the white flash of a Literate smock at one of the counters; one of the new crew sent in to replace the ones Bayne had pulled out.
Literate Martha Collins, in the inner room, was fairly screaming: "Shut that infernal thing off and listen to me!
Show this to any Literate you meet; get Literate Hopkinson to countersign it for you, when you find him.
They control the armed forces--only a Literate can enter West Point or Fort MacKenzie or Chapultepec or White Sands or Annapolis.
Bayne, the store's Chief Literate; with him were his assistant, Literate Third Class Roger B.
There's that Hartnett boy he runs around with; Tom Hartnett bought Literate training for him.
As the only literate person in the area, the parish priest was often not only the spiritual mentor of the population but also the teacher, judge, and government official.
Most of these courses lasted two years and were conducted on a weekly basis by both regular teachers and literate volunteers; successful completion was officially considered equivalent to graduation from a four-year elementary school.
The literate was better than this, for he at least had no theory, and frank ignorance is to be forgiven.
If there was ever an error, it was on the lips of some illiterate literate who made three syllables of the word.
Just exactly so should a literate son write of an illiterate peasant father.
Many of the poor became literateenough to read the Bible and to write letters.
The secretary was usually a clerk, who was literate because he had taken minor clerical orders.
About half the women in London were literate by 1700.
The printing press made books more accessible to all literate people.
But they were always a literate caste, and the conclusion is that in former times they discharged duties to which literacy was essential in a comparatively humble sphere.
Besides monopolising the trade of the Punjab and the greater part of Afghanistan, and doing a good deal beyond those limits, they are in the Punjab the chief civil administrators, and have almost all literate work in their hands.
They set the greatest store by their profession of writing and say that the son of a Kayasth should be either literate or dead.
It must be remembered that there were at this time practically only two other literate castes among Hindus, the Brahmans and the Banias.
The unlettered Merovingian kings made use of monograms composed of the letters of their names; and, curiously, the illiterate monogram was destined to supersede the literate subscriptions.
Could we fix his era, it would be of interest; for we know that he lived in a literate age; and his desire against his adversary was, that he had written a Book!
At the same time it deprived the peasant Chinese of their natural leaders, with the consequence that secret and half-literate political associations faced an arbitrary government military in character.
Besides, the Pedagogue's library is such that any literate can soon become effective in any field to the extent needed on the Rigel planets.
There are not that many literate persons on the continent.
The writers took up the gage of battle thrown down by the emperor, and Hwangti became the object of the wit and abuse of every literatewho could use a pencil.
The general result of this legislation was that the Scandinavian countries, then including Finland, early becameliterate nations.
In consequence the Finns have for long been a literate people.
It was inconceivable any literate person in the United States could be ignorant of my position.
There they competed on alternate forums with literate gardeners and stuttering horticultural amateurs.
Interstellar Ark' was a popularized account of the trip that made me quite a nice piece of change because every literateand half-literate person on Earth is curious about the Galactics.
Jozef was particularly impressed by the fact that despite all the discrimination of the Government against the Czech schools, the Czechs were by far the most literate people of the monarchy.
Such of them as were literate enough [Pg312] to send in their votes were almost unanimously against a change.
The literary critic, Francis Hackett, somewhere speaks of "the enormous gap between the literate and unliterate American.
Thus it was that the Romance languages were fashioned out of the wreck of Latin, the vast [Pg179] influence of the literate minority to the contrary notwithstanding.
