While we sewed or embroidered, mother talked by the hour of the great writers of the world, told me what they wrote, and how they expressed themselves, but I got to read very little for myself.
And when I had been in the dale a little, thither came the carline, and sat down by me and fell to teaching me wisdom, and showed me letters and told me what they were, and I learned like a little lad in the chorister's school.
He wondered what for--whether or not his victim might be dead, and if so, what they would do with him.
Ah, history," he observed sagely; "now in teaching them history you must take care to interest them in what they learn.
Of course Betsy hasn't an idea as to what they are," said Vera; "she just knows that they are something valuable and that she must keep quiet about them.
You are not going to be what they call a Nut, are you?
I wish them not only to be taught," said Mrs. Quabarl, "but interested in what they learn.
Thus, they lingered on till the hour of separating for the night was long past; and then they found that they might as well have given vent to their real feelings before, for they could not suppress them, do what they would.
I was always confused and giddy at that place you took me from; and could never remember, and sometimes couldn't even understand, what they said to me.
The real life is supplanted by the artificial, and people are judged, not by what they are, but by what they have.
Small wonder that the Great First Consul trudged home from Moscow with a heavy heart!
A reign of terror began--a reign of terror heightened by mystery.
The memorable fact is what they taught us, or some faint glimpse of it.
On the other hand, what they lacked in experience, they made up for in genius.
Do what they would, however, there soon came a time when they were confronted with the problem of "the pressure of population" in an acute form.
Ravenswood, to avoid hearing the dispute betwixt the father and the overindulged boy, thought it most polite to turn his face once more towards the pictures, and pay no attention to what they said.
The worst of the pretenders to these sciences was, that they were generally persons who, feeling themselves odious to humanity, were careless of what they did to deserve the public hatred.
Sister Agatha, who is a good creature and a born nurse, tells me that he wanted her to tell me what they were, but she would only cross herself, and say she would never tell.
With some difficulty, I got a fellow passenger to tell me what they meant.
I am what they call a bad one, and that is just the difference.
Are you not,' he asked, 'what they call a socialist?
When countryfolk get gossiping, they go on, I do assure you, for the fun; they don't as much as think of what they say.
Another, "because it shows how some people made the most of what they had.
When the book is given them they usually examine it pretty thoroughly to see whether or not it is what they want or can use.
It may be added that a librarian or assistant in charge of circulation should never be too busy to talk with children and find out what they need.
According to what they contained we should offer to dispose of 'em to the parties most interested,' replies Wegg, promptly.
Assuming that the dear old creatures were impressed by what they heard, still one would like to be sure of it, the more so, as at least one of the dear old creatures was somewhat pointedly referred to.
Didn't everybody want to make grabs at what they'd got, and bring 'em to poverty and ruin?
I listened for a moment to what they said, but I did not perfectly understand it, and what I did understand by no means interested me: the rain still drizzled, but I heeded it not, and was soon asleep.
I can raise one half of what they demand, do you supply the other, we will then divide it, each shall go his own way and dispose of his portion.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what they" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
