Educated at the mission or government schools, she can always read and write in Maori, and often in English better than she can speak it.
Most of the rising generation are able to read and write in their own tongue, if not in English also; for they all have been, or go, to school.
Yesterday," says his lordship, writing on the 24th, "your whole letter was read to the queen.
Read more, your worship," said Sancho, "and you will find something that will enlighten us.
Then let your worship read it aloud," said Sancho, "for I am very fond of love matters.
The explanation of the green glow was simple, too, once he read the secret of it.
Who knows but these, their descendants, have read from these scrolls the secrets of this strange underground cavern?
As the girl read the story of Johnny's life she found herself hoping more and more that she might save him.
And, having read all this in her eyes, he did not know whether to laugh or smile.
Again Jean read the signs, but asked no questions.
As he pondered these questions, Johnny remembered something he hadread in Hardgrave's book, something that had made his blood run cold.
In other days, as you will know if you have read our other stories of the adventures of Johnny Thompson, fate had led him over the frozen trails of Alaska, down the timber roads of the Cascades and out over the sea.
The result of this council Pant read as if it were an open book.
In the course of her remarks Mrs. Lyon read the following original poem: POEM BY MRS.
This increases the number of special teachers, adds to the city's bills, but enables the school superintendents to read splendid reports of new and special courses when they attend pedagogic conventions.
If he had read it before the Institute, I would have flung him into the bottom of a dungeon, and left him there the rest of his natural life!
It was not necessary for the Republicans of the Third Republic, after the formidable lesson which France read them at the elections in 1885, to hear mass themselves.
I am inclined to think that there are more French officers in St.-Omer alone to-day who can read and understand German than there were in all France in 1870.
They choose from among the electors present a certain number of 'scrutineers' knowing how to read and write.
In the towns they read all manner of trash and listen to all manner of lies.
I did not fail to read the owner a lesson on how not to keep his reserve ground tackle, and I guess the job of putting the dunnage back helped to impress it on his mind.
Riding with one or another of her cowboys, she had often noticed how infallibly they could read the country for miles around.
For she was afraid that this villain had read her heart.
He read it with a satisfaction he could not conceal.
Sometimes he read to himself, but he was still easily tired, and preferred usually to rest.
No matter into what unfrequented canon she rode, some silent cowpuncher would look at her as they met with admiring eyes behind which she read a knowledge of the story.
Helen was sitting beside him in an easy chair, and he watched the play of her face in the lamplight as she read from "The Little White Bird.
A PARTY CALL The mistress of the Lazy D, just through with her morning visit to the hospital in the bunkhouse, stopped to read the gaudy poster tacked to the wall.
It seemed that he had but lately joined the Teton-Shoshones outfit of desperadoes, and between the lines Bannister easily read that his cousin's masterful compulsion had coerced the young fellow.
More often she read aloud to him while he lay back with his leveled eyes gravely on her till the gentle, cool abstraction she affected was disturbed and her perplexed lashes rose to reproach the intensity of his gaze.
He read there only coquetry, the eternal sex conflict, the winsome defiance of a woman hitherto the virgin mistress of all assaults upon her heart's citadel.
Deliberately, without the least haste, he stooped and kissed her before she could rally from the staggering surprise of the intention she readin his eyes too late to elude.
Both of them had heard the story of the night, and each of them had tucked away in her corsage a scribbled note she wanted to get back to her room and read again.
As soon as I read the deep and delicate thing I knew, as I had known in each case before, exactly how well it would do.
She mightn't have wished to get him, but she wished to show him, and I seemed to read that if she could treat him as a trophy her affairs were rather at the ebb.
So much I read on her paper while the cabby dropped a grin from his perch.
Well, I'm glad then I haven't read him and have nothing unpleasant to say!
I distinctly read an intention, the mark of his own hidden hand.
To make fools of young men, but not to read or write, not to do any sort of work.
The impression he made on me personally was such that I wished him to read it, and I corrected to this end with a surreptitious hand what might be wanting in the careless conspicuity of the sheet.
I've read with the liveliest wonder the statement they so circumstantially make and done my best to swallow the prodigy they leave to be inferred.
She didn't read it out, as was natural enough; but she repeated to me what it chiefly embodied.
He showed how much he was when before us all Lady Jane wanted to read something aloud.
As soon as this had been publicly read by the Gonfaloniere, the people piled their arms in the piazza, and the peasantry dispersed to their country homes.
It is safe to say that few readers will be able to put down the book without feeling the better for having read it .
In the summer of 1557 he read a canto each night, at Urbino, to the Duchess Vittoria and a select audience.
No one willread this fascinating and charmingly produced book without thanks to Mr. Byles and a desire to visit--or revisit--Morwenstow.
She enjoys, however, one advantage over her Aunt Elisabetta; for in a speaking portrait by Titian, we may read much of her character, exempt from the vague flattery of such diffuse eulogists.
Such compositions, when thus written for the public, wanted the freshness and simplicity which constitute their best charm; but they gained attractions of another sort, and came to be read more for their manner than their matter.
One of the most interesting biographies we have read for years.
Next day they returned home, and summoned a general council, to which there was read a letter from Guidobaldo, reinstating the city in its former privileges, and removing the obnoxious imposts.
Or else--what would almost be stranger still--not to have read the novel, not to have heard of it!
You have never read it," he pursued, "in that famous edition from which the character of the Prince of Denmark happened to be omitted?
He drew the Duchessa's letter from his pocket, and read it again, and again approached it to his face, communing with that ghost of a perfume.
I think it's one of the nicest little books I've readfor ages.
To have readthe novel perhaps--without dreaming for an instant that there was any sort of connection between Pauline and herself!
He wears his heart behind his eyeglass; and whoso runs mayread it.
The first was when I read in the paper that you had received the hat, and I was able to boast to all my acquaintances that I had been in the convent with your niece by marriage.
In the sick-room Emilia would read to Marietta, or say the rosary for her.
It was years since he had read a line of Emerson's.
A rhyme to King Ormund,' replied Yellow-cap, repeating the words which he had read without thinking of the effect they might have upon his hearer.
And now, for the first time, he could not read her thought.
He took it from her, and read the following words which had been written upon it:-- 'A rhyme to King Ormund.
When these arrived, they were read in the presence of all the barons, and it was thereupon resolved to administer minister justice in accordance with these, and especially those chapters adapted to times of peace.
Pleasant and thrilling it is to lie here on this deserted ruin, and read that spirited opening canto!
Yet this exquisite scene is identified with one of Burns's coarsest efforts--one which, with all its vividness and humor, cannot be read aloud in the family circle.
Hitherto visitors have been allowed to pass hours in the ruin, at their leisure, and read the wizard scene of the 'Lay of the Last Minstrel,' in the very locality where it is supposed to have occurred.
Naught save love will enable him to read the wondrous runes of God's creation; nothing but sympathy can catch the strange tones of mythic music; there is nothing pure, which can be painted, save by the pure in heart.
During a whole week we will see none but priests, we will readonly books of prayer, and work only for the church or for the poor.
In other words, his mind was read by the medium as an open book.
He knew the whole Gospel almost by heart, but he said that every time he read it he enjoyed a new and genuine spiritual delight.
In 1883 my father received from Ivan Sergeyevitch his last farewell letter, written in pencil on his death-bed, and I remember with what emotion heread it.
In conclusion I cannot refrain from quoting the opinion of one of my kinsmen, who, after my father's death, read the diaries kept both by my father and my mother during the autumn before Lyoff Nikolaievich left Yasnaya Polyana.
I am intensely fond of him, and sorry for him, and do nothing but read him.
One has only to read some of his posthumous works attentively to see that the idea of leaving home and radically altering his whole way of life had presented itself to him long since and was a continual temptation to him.
For a long time after, I wrote no more, and was always fonder of hearing other people's compositions read than my own.
Leskof's death, my father read me his posthumous instructions with regard to a pauper funeral, with no speeches at the grave, and so on, and how the idea of writing his own will then came into his head for the first time.
Often during heated arguments Nikolai Nikolayevitch would take the Gospel, which he always carried about with him, from his pocket, and read out some passage from it appropriate to the subject in hand.
When I was a boy, and for the first time wrote a set of French verses for the letter-box, I was so shy when they were read that I hid under the table, and sat there the whole evening until I was pulled out by force.
You read it over next day, and have to throw the whole thing away, because, good as it is, it misses the main thing.
He said that not only was everything intelligible to him in the Gospel, but that when he read it he seemed to be reading in his own soul, and felt himself capable of rising higher and higher toward God and merging himself in Him.
As we read our eyes are dazzled by strange graces of color flowing over the pages: everywhere there is mystery and magnificence.
Therefore I make no appeal: they only may call who stand upon the lofty mountains; but I reveal the thought which arose like a star in my soul with such bright and pathetic meaning, leaving it to you who read to approve and apply it.
Never have I read anywhere such an anguished cowering before Conscience, a mighty creature full of eyes within and without, and pointing fingers and asped tongues, anticipating in secret the blazing condemnation of the world.
If any of my readers would like to know what kind of thought goes to the building up of a great nation, let him read the life of Alexander Hamilton by Oliver.
Yet would we, for all the martyrs who perished in the fires of the Middle Ages, counsel the placing of the Gospels on the list of books to be read only by a few esoteric worshippers?
Out of this comradeship with earth there came a commingling of natures, and we do not know when we read who are the Sidhe and who are human.
When I read O'Grady I was as such a man who suddenly feels ancient memories rushing at him, and knows he was born in a royal house, that he had mixed with the mighty of heaven and earth and had the very noblest for his companions.
To read a mystic book truly is to invoke the powers.
How rarely, out of the multitude of volumes a man reads in his lifetime, can he remember where or when he read any particular book, or with any vividness recall the mood it evoked in him.
With reference to Ireland, I was at the time I read like many others who were bereaved of the history of their race.
I never read but one book in my life, an' I didn't find it very sustainin'.
But Paul had read books, and his mind was always leaping forward to new knowledge.
Paul looked around at the little group, and he read the meaning in the eye of every man.
The faint signs that Henry read with such an unerring eye were hidden from him.
His power to read the faces of men was scarcely inferior to his wonderful skill in reading every sign of the forest.
Paul watched his face attentively, seeking to read his knowledge there.
Henry, with his instinctive skill in the forest, read their meaning.
In the evening, when they were all sitting before the coals, and could just see one another's faces in the faint light, Paul would tell what he had readabout other times and other lands.
Frederick smiled as he read a paragraph: "How do you prosper?
She read it through, and then she appeared to read it backward, for it lasted nearly all summer.
She had in her desk a very long romance, called "The Children of the Abbey," which she used to read at noontime and recess.
We read and learn these things with astonishment; we find it difficult to reconcile such apparent contradictions.
As a mere matter of form, he read them over rapidly; but the young king, who listened, became aware that certain articles were inserted which had not been previously agreed upon.
I was in a state of vague uncertainty worse than death, until the fatal day when he at length avowed to me what I had long before read in his looks!
A box was buckled round her waist, filled with papers and memorials, which she carefully read as she promenaded, noting with her pencil necessary answers or observations to each.
Where ferrets first came from I am not sure, but somewhere I have read that they were imported from Morocco, and that they are not natives of Great Britain any more than the ordinary rat is.
I don't suppose any who read this book could be so unsportsmanlike and brutal as to keep a rabbit alive to course and torture over again with dogs, or for the fun of shooting at the poor little beast.
One of the Indian pupils read a paper on "First Ways of Getting Food and Clothing.
Its independence, manly candor, and real ability so entirely command my respect that I read perhaps with most interest those articles which controvert my own notions.
When we first read this remark, we took it for a mere burst of impassioned rhetoric; but on second thoughts, it appears to have a meaning.
We read that tobacco and coca will enable a man to go several days without anything to eat; and we interpret this result as due to the waste-retarding action of these substances.
I feel sure when I read it, that it is not written in the interest of any man or clique, but in the interest of what the editors believe to be sound doctrine, good learning and good taste.
And it may, therefore, be supposed that among our ancient Brethren there were many who could neither read nor write.
The petition must be read at a stated or regular communication of the lodge, and referred to a committee of three members for an investigation of the qualifications and character of the candidate.
The minutes of the regular communication of ---- were read and confirmed.
That in those days the ordinary operative masons could neither read nor write, is a fact established by history.
But one who is unable to subscribe his name, or to read it when written, might still very easily prove himself to be within the requirements of this regulation.
Wherefore, we read that Sarah demanded of Abraham, "Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with my son.
In the first place, no lodge can initiate a candidate, "without previous notice, and due examination into his character; and not unless his petition has been read at one regular meeting and acted on at another.
During a careful examination of every ancient document to which I have had access, I have met with no positive enactment forbidding the admission of uneducated persons, even of those who can neither read nor write.
The lectures in the various degrees, and the Ancient Charges read on the installation of the Master of a lodge, furnish us with other criteria for deciding what are peculiarly masonic offenses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "read" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
