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Example sentences for "read and"

  • Watts' Logic may with success be read and commented on to them.

  • When, to read and write, was of itself an honorary distinction.

  • They had been taught to read and write, diligently instructed in the truths of religion, and their lot had been as happy an one as in their condition it was possible to be.

  • I'd sell them, and buy a place in the free states, and take all our people there, and hire teachers, to teach them to read and write.

  • She instituted regular hours and employments for her, and undertook to teach her to read and sew.

  • While he was with me, an orderly or staff-officer came and handed him a piece of paper, which he read and handed to me.

  • So Mr. Horner contented himself with quietly teaching a sharp, clever lad to read and write, with a view to making use of him as a kind of foreman in process of time.

  • One evening, when Jasmin was on his way to the Augustins to read and recite to the Sisters, he was waylaid by a troop of his old playfellows.

  • He is told that he must go to the house of his preceptor to-day, for he must learn to read and write.

  • Happy and lovely children of Guienne and Languedoc, read and re-read the Souvenirs of Jasmin; they will give you painful recollections of public schools, and perhaps give you hope of better things to come.

  • But reader, read and compare; lay aside prejudice and judge.

  • It was natural that this should be so, when they had been excluded from this privilege by pains and penalties, when in some States it was one of the gravest offenses to teach a negro to read and write.

  • What tedious and vapid things they read and liked to read!

  • However limited our idea of a proper common education may be, it is a fundamental requisite in our form of government that every voter should be able to read and write.

  • We withhold the Bible from our servants and keep them in ignorance of it, while we will not use the means to have it read and explained to them.

  • His wife is a free woman from Philadelphia, and being able to read and write, taught her husband.

  • He was six years on board of an English man-of-war, where he learned to speak our language easily, and also to read and write it.

  • Their language I could only learn orally, for they had not any books among them, though many of them had been taught to read and write by the missionaries at home.

  • He was fond of reading, and we lent him most of the books which we had in the forecastle, which he read and returned to us the next time we fell in with him.

  • Everyone was taught to read and write in English.

  • The first stage of education was primary education, which was devoted to learning to read and write in English.

  • Some schooling was now being made compulsory in certain trades; the goldsmiths' company made a rule that all apprentices had to be able to read and write.

  • A considerable number of girls of other backgrounds such as the yeomanry and the town citizenry somehow learned to read and write.

  • What, nephew, do you know how to read and write?

  • As the boy grew up his father sent him to a school to learn to read and write.

  • When the children grew up a bit they were sent to school, and as they were both very intelligent they soon learnt to read and write.

  • In the course of time the children all learned to read and write.

  • Read and judge, Hastings," said the king.

  • In time, I was sent to school, where I learned to read and spell, making great progress in the Single and Mother's Carritch.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    command them; crime against; each like; four companies; marked degree; monarchical government; much afraid; paying tribute; read and; read from; read over; read prayers; read some; read the; read them; readers will; readily distinguished; readily soluble; reading the; reads thus; ready enough; ready for; ready sale; slave property; universal causation; usually given