Learned

Examples

• I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We must not have you getting too learned for a woman, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She could write letters enough for both, as she knew to her cost, and it was far better for him to be amiable than learned. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I had learned that General Buell himself would be at Savannah the next day, and desired to meet me on his arrival. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Amy was fretting because her lessons were not learned, and she couldn't find her rubbers. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• We bought books and magazines in the town and a copy of Hoyle and learned many two-handed card games. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• It was a hard one, but you shall be assured, indeed, that I have learned it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The Egyptians were the earliest and greatest agriculturists, and from them the art was learned by the Greeks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The art of war cannot be learned in a day, and there must be a natural aptitude for military duties. Plato. The Republic.
• I learned in a moment that he loved me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But I learned it first from the Bowery. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If it fails on its merits, he doesn't worry or fret about it, but, on the contrary, regards it as a useful fact learned; remains cheerful and tries something else. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the preceding Section, we learned that many houses heated by hot water are supplied with fresh-air pipes which admit fresh air into separate rooms or into suites of rooms. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• There were not men enough in the army to manage that train without the help of Mexicans who had learned how. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Cardan Ramelli and Leonardo da Vinci, learned Italians, and the accomplished Prof. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• From where I stood I could hear everything, and I know that you have learned the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I learned later, when I had moved further south, that Belmont had caused more mourning than almost any other battle up to that time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It was not unpleasant to the taste, though slightly acid, and I learned in a short time to prize it very highly. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• We learned in Section 287 that the strength of a current increases when the electromotive force increases, and diminishes when the electromotive force diminishes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• And it seemed probable that all learned men had a sort of schoolmaster's view of young people. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Louis, she said, would never have learned to rule if she had not ceased to govern. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• So they did, but their mistake was in ceasing to do well, and they learned this lesson through much anxiety and regret. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• A visible impression was produced upon the auditors by this part of the learned Serjeant's address. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Politics, business, recreation, art, science, the learned professions, polite intercourse, leisure, represent such interests. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But, as it was, she only learned, from some very significant looks, how far their penetration, founded on Margaret's instructions, extended. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Grape juice mixed with millet ferments quickly and strongly, and the Romans learned to use this mixture for bread raising, kneading a very small amount of it through the dough. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• And thus, by painstaking and continued practice, he learned the art of roping. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• What her thoughts were I did not know, for as yet I had learned but little of the Martian tongue; enough only to suffice for my daily needs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Tom, therefore, remained behind, with a few who had learned of him to pray, and offered up prayers for the escape of the fugitives. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The counterpart of the isolation of mind from activities dealing with objects to accomplish ends is isolation of the subject matter to be learned. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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