There have always been martyrs; I don't see why it is any harder for us to be martyrs than for those we read about.
Sometimes Ellen, sitting underneath them on a low rib of rock on a May morning, used to fancy with success that she and the trees were together in that first garden which she had read about in the Bible.
They are accursed in the sight of the Lord, as were those women weread about in the Old Testament, with their mantles and crisping-pins.
In the months that followed, I occasionally bicycled to Walden Pond, where I read about Thoreau's experiment with self-reliance.
I read about Rama's claim that those who had not done well in his program were "simply unrealistic or lazy.
Towards the Sunset In the last chapter we read about some of the people who lived in the Eastern lands south of the desert.
The Two White Races In the last chapter we read about some of the dark-skinned Africans who live in South Africa, but we said also that there are many Europeans living there too.
You heard the rumor, or read about them at any rate, that Lee Oswald was studying communism when he was 14 years of age, did you not?
No; not till I read about him in the paper--that she had another marriage and it broke up, I believe, or something.
But it sounded such an extraordinary thing, a Tube, when I read about it that I expected to see something different," John continued.
There was no love in that story, and people like to read about love.
Read about it in Ingersoll's "Wit of the Wild," in the chapter on "Animal Partnerships.
Read about it in "What Mr. Darwin Saw in His Voyage around the World.
The biography will supply the need of that part of the public which has no time to read Strindberg, but has plenty of time to read about him.
You couldn't git his mind offen that plan if you gin him one of the golden harps we read about.
Louis and Clark, the very men I'd read about in Gasses Journal, how I wished their eyes could see and their ears hear me.
He was like that hero she had read about--rather were not all true heroes like him?
I've read abouthim in Pilgrim's Progress; he showed Christian the way to the Wicket Gate.
I have known more than one instance--and I read about a gentleman who had desired to be taken suddenly and he was killed by lightning while sitting on his own piazza.
Of course the papers were full of it, and all men capable of reading, read about it.
New York ye read abouthe cud be seen anny night sittin' where th' lights cud fall on his bald but youthful head.
I've read about a famous town That drove a famous trade, Where Whittington walk'd up and found A fortune ready made.
I've read about a Fairy Land, In some romantic tale, Where Dwarfs if good are sure to thrive And wicked Giants fail.
I've read about a fine Estate, A Mansion large and strong; A view all over Kent and back, And going for a song.
The other kind of darkness we cannot see: it has to do, not with places, but with people, and we read about it very often in the Bible.
Oh, I read aboutit in a book last year," came the ready answer.
But now the Indians are far away from here and they are different from the ones we read about in the history books.
It was just like the stories we read about in school about the 'knights of old that were brave and bold.
R-read about th' time I was christened,' says th' boy.
I've read about it," replied Charley, "but forget exactly how it was done.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "read about" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
