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Example sentences for "soon learned"

  • But I soon learned to delight in--in my Sicilian," she said, tenderly.

  • We soon learned, to our sorrow, that this first caƱon was only one of many.

  • I soon learned, however, that no better man could have been selected for this task.

  • American and Filipino road foremen were at first used for trail construction, but the Igorots, Ifugaos and Kalingas, all of whom are very intelligent people, soon learned to serve as foremen.

  • Timid as he naturally was, he soon learned to abide in my company terrors which most of my bolder companions shrank from encountering.

  • There were none of us much looked after; and I soon learned to bring books of amusement to the school with me, which, amid the Babel confusion of the place, I contrived to read undetected.

  • I soon learned to appreciate her services and to regard her as indispensable.

  • We soon learned, however, that the soldier's promise of punishment was swift and precise in its fulfillment.

  • Business, I soon learned, had not been going well on the border during the two years of my absence.

  • I soon learned to distinguish the raccoon's mournful call from the quavering cry of the owl, and I joined the hired man in hunting rabbits from under the piles of brush in the clearing.

  • I had been used to consider laughter as the effect of merriment; but I soon learned that it is one of the arts of adulation, and, from laughing only to show that I was pleased, I now began to laugh when I wished to please.

  • But on inquiry, he soon learned that it was not the one he was looking after, and he was free to say he experienced a marked sense of relief.

  • In due time, he succeeded in getting on the steamer, but he soon learned, that her course was not direct to Philadelphia, but that some stay would be made in Norfolk, Va.

  • Those of us who knew each other tried hard to stay together, but we soon learned to be careful not to appear to be too anxious, for the guards evidently had instructions to break up previous acquaintanceships.

  • We soon learned that we must leave our boots off for a while each day, to keep our feet in good condition.

  • I soon learned to make my bread last as long as it would, by eating it in instalments, and it required some will-power to do this.

  • I soon learned to ride, as a jockey, and up to the time I was eighteen years old that was my occupation.

  • We soon learned to our sorrow that we had a scrimmage of our own which would occupy us in good shape so long as the towing-boats were kept out.

  • Loading a ship in mid ocean with such heavy articles as casks of oil, is a slow and laborious task, as we soon learned.

  • Oliver Benson was the name of this friendly appearing lad, as we soon learned; and before we had been together half an hour he knew very nearly as much as we ourselves concerning our position and life aboard the Essex.

  • At that time it was customary to carry in and out everything, including ammunition, and we soon learned to dread the days when we had to move.

  • This was our first experience of what shortly became a common occurrence and we soon learned that, in the field, a soldier never knows one day where he will be the next, and thus he is always "expecting the unexpected.

  • This appears to be a characteristic and never-ending joke with artillerymen and so we soon learned to "spot" their emplacements and go behind them, when possible.

  • I soon learned that in all of this clatter of voices and table utensils they were discussing purely ordinary affairs and arguing about mere trifles, and that not the least ill feeling was aroused.

  • The stopping of the music always aroused him enough to tell me to play this or that; and I soon learned that my task was not to be considered finished until he got up from his chair and said: "That will do.

  • But I soon learned that to journey up a great river for hundreds of miles with a score of natives, taking all the food for a six months' stay, was a matter that could not be arranged in a moment.

  • But we soon learned to overcome such feelings and the meat was really excellent.

  • Buying and selling stocks, as he soon learned, was an art, a subtlety, almost a psychic emotion.

  • Stener had been called by the clerk and Cowperwood did not quite understand why he was being detained, but he soon learned.

  • There was, he soon learned, a Henry Waterman, Jr.

  • The teachers, and students also, soon learned to know this.

  • He soon learned, also, that he could easily hold his own in the class work with the brightest of them.

  • I will admit I'd liked to have seen more of her, but I soon learned that I had not the ghost of a chance with you in the field.


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