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...earing of my tal- ent for catching otters, for I know ‘em as you know your alphabet, he says to me like this: ‘Pere Fourchon,’ says he, “when you find... ...to public education. He helped the children to make paper boats with their alphabets much oftener than he taught them how to spell; he scolded them in...

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... Desperately hot, or changing feaverously. I had not taught thee then, the Alphabet Of flowers, how they devisefully being set 10 And bound up, m...

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...er bonnet straight must have cooled off then. The man didn’t know the very alphabet of drawing! His strong point, he intimated, was his sentiment; but...

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..., and which he never omitted from his signature, as the last letter of the alphabet, suggested some mysterious fatality. Marcas! say this two-syllable...

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...believe that, was for the mind of General Ople the having to return to his alphabet and recommence the ascent of the laborious moun- tain of understan...

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...nod, nor kneele, nor make a signe; 1496 But I (of these) will wrest an Alphabet, 1497 And by still practice, learne to know thy meaning. 1498...

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... the forfeits, and loved her love to admiration with all the letters of the alphabet. Likewise at the game of How, When, and Where, she was very grea...

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... named for it. This is good evidence that Frankfort was the first place it occurred at. Frankfort has another distinction—it is the birthplace of the ... ... it mean anything you want to. You can begin with schlag-ader, which means artery, and you can hang on the whole dictionary, word by word, clear throu... ...ective. Observe these examples: Freundschaftsbezeigungen. Dilettantenaufdringlichkeiten. Stadtverordnetenversammlungen. These things are not words, th... ...s I have al- ready mentioned. But far before this virtue stands another— that of spelling a word according to the sound of it. After one short lesson ...

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...s and Christmas-carols,—did the Child sit and learn. These things were the Alphabet, whereby in aftertime he was to syllable and partly read the grand... ...d Writer is God. To read it! Dost thou, does man, so much as well know the Alphabet thereof? With its Words, Sentences, and grand descriptive Pages, p...

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...society, the homely toils that must increase, worn-out garments, perpetual alphabets, children always whining, and James always irritated, thinking he...

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...What do I hear? 0h ye gods! Is preparation necessary to teach peasants the alphabet?” At this moment Kolia ran into the drawing room shouting “Mamma! ... ...ria, and meanwhile you will be washing a baby here, teaching an- other the alphabet, or handing some sick man his medicine. That will be your beginnin...

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...er, the anchoret yielded to his importunity so far as to let him learn the alphabet, traced on the door in charcoal, and identify the more sacred word...

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...endeavouring to communicate with the deaf gentle man by means of the finger alphabet, with which he constructed such words as are unknown in any civi...

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...s them all, from A to Z as you say yourself, and then insert the very same alphabet in your book, and though the imposition may be plain to see, becau... ...nly the four S’s that they say true lovers ought to have, but a com- plete alphabet; only listen to me and you will see how I can repeat it by rote. H... ...ven already; and Z Zealous for your honour.” Camilla laughed at her maid’s alphabet, and perceived her to be more experienced in love affairs than she...

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...,” said his sister. “You speak as if I were learning the alpha- bet.” “The alphabet of common sense is something you will never learn,” the Doctor per...

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..., as it did herself. The unexpected vision of this accusing Captain of the Alphabet, this resplendent and haunting A. fronting him bodily, threw Ripto... ...sir.” Algernon Feverel and Richard came in while he was ham- mering at the alphabet to recollect the first letter of the doctor’s name. They had met i...

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...mother and I had lived alone together. I can faintly remember learning the alphabet at her knee. To this day, when I look upon the fat black letters i... ...here! taking something out. Scraps of the Russian Prince s nails. Prince Alphabet turned topsy-turvy, I call him, for his name s got all the letters...

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...elect of polite society. If you are not versed in this 47 George Meredith alphabet of mute intelligence, you are in the ranks with wait- ers and line... ... name?” Wilfrid asked for. Emilia’s lips broke to the second letter of the alphabet; but she cut short the word. “Why should you hear it? And now that...

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...s were set forth in case bottles with no throats. Old prints of ships with alphabetical references to their various mysteries, hung in frames upon the... ...ittle carriage was got for him, in which he could lie at his ease, with an alphabet and other elementary works of reference, and be wheeled down to th... ... he leered at Paul, as if he would have liked to tackle him with the Greek alphabet, on the spot. ‘That circumstance, indeed, Doctor Blimber,’ pursued...

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...question the gain of such an expenditure of energy. The dis- persal of the alphabet over a printed page is not less perplex- ing to the illiterate. As...