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Example sentences for "object lesson"

  • Think of this also, that for aught we know, such an object lesson may be needed to all eternity, as a warning against sin.

  • Further, I think it is fair to imagine, as we said before, that the suffering induced by sin will be an object lesson to all eternity of the evil of sin.

  • Taken together, this collection presented a most interesting series for the school rooms, which proved an object lesson of great value to both pupil and teacher.

  • They are sorely in need of an object lesson which we must furnish.

  • If any one would have an object lesson in the uncertainties of history and of human testimony, let him read the various conflicting accounts of the writers who have treated upon this subject.

  • Still, a comparative statement of the aggregate volumes of fiction read or drawn out, as against all other books, may be highly useful as an object lesson, if embodied in the library report.

  • Take an object lesson as to the mischiefs of reading the wretched stuff which some people pretend is "better than no reading at all" from the boy Jesse Pomeroy, who perpetrated a murder of peculiar atrocity in Boston.

  • Chapelle is cited as a triumph of restoration, an object lesson, in which we may see a thirteenth century chapel with its glass as it appeared when first it was built.

  • However that may be, the windows generally, remarkable as they are, are not markedly enough of a period to serve as an object lesson in glass design.

  • Just at this time the Shimonoseki expedition gave an object lesson to the nation, and helped to deprive the barbarian-expelling agitation of any semblance of Imperial sanction.

  • In fact, their good conduct constituted an object lesson in the interests of Christianity.

  • Such an object lesson was, in his opinion, the best stepping-stone to supremacy.

  • The field hand who has the ambition to save and improve, to buy his own land, feels that he is benefiting not only himself, but giving an object lesson of the power of his race.

  • It has been a great assistance, not only in furnishing properly cooked food, but invaluable as an object lesson in neatness and skilled cooking.

  • This wharf stands to-day, a monument of strength and an object lesson to those who were doubtful of its completion.

  • The wide domain between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierras and the rich valleys of California bordering on the Pacific Ocean, inviting enterprising agriculturalists from all sides, were indeed an object lesson.

  • Here indeed was an object lesson, and in all these works was manifested a spirit of enterprise most commendable.

  • I said something to you to-night about needing an object lesson, so that it would sink into you that when I said the limit I meant it," said Billy Kane evenly.

  • Red Vallon had not forgotten, and was not likely to forget, his "object lesson!

  • Look out I don't give you an object lesson!

  • Was ever such an object lesson in sin and its consequence placed before the world?

  • God willed, therefore, to testify by an object lesson, that he has prepared for his saints another life after this life, in which they shall live forever with God.

  • For this cause God thought it needful, not only that the promise of life should be given to the original world, but that immortality should be demonstrated by an object lesson.

  • The Germans perhaps were anxious to show the power of the submarines, and to give America an object lesson in that power.

  • The reduction of the German salient at St. Mihiel was an object lesson to the Germans in American methods.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    admit women; apple orchard; colonial days; each atom; including capital; laid before the house; local circles; make choice; much pain; north wind; object lesson; objective case; objective existence; objective reality; objective truth; objective value; objects found; personal service; place the; public assembly; rather then; remarkably well; rough voice; short notice; since nothing; subscribe myself