Use learnt in a sentence
Sentences ending with learnt
- There were better swordsmen in England than he, but his skill was various, and he knew tricks of the trade which this primitive Norman could never have learnt. [11]
- It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt. [1]
Sentences containing learnt two or more times
- If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way. [5]
More example sentences with the word learnt in them
- He learnt everything without any trouble and at the same time worked as hard as a poor man's son. [10]
- Mr Sampson Brass, who no doubt had his reasons for looking sharply about him, soon learnt to distinguish the pony's trot and the clatter of the little chaise at the corner of the street. [12]
- You, our Ann, who have already learnt to be so good a mother in the Sisters's school? [10]
- To me she was never anything but a pretty plaything; still, there were moments when I believed--poor soul!--I first learnt what love meant through you, how great and how sacred it is!--Now you know all; this, indeed, is the truth! [10]
- Dontchuknow, Archy could 've learnt something if he'd had the nous to stand by and take notice of how that man works the system. [5]
- You have learnt to sing, and there is no better school for a woman's soul than music and singing. [10]
- Hadrian had refused to see it when he learnt that the death by drowning had terribly distorted the lad's features. [10]
- Antinous had learnt to regard everything crippled or defective with aversion, as a monstrous failure of nature's plastic harmony, but to pity it tenderly; but now he felt quite differently. [10]
- He was accustomed to listen to all that was said in the Emperor's presence, and year by year he had learnt to understand more of what he heard. [10]
- They've been learnt to haul little carriages in harness, and go this way and that way and t'other way according to their orders; yes, and to march and drill like soldiers, doing it as exact, according to orders, as soldiers does it. [5]
- They've been learnt to do all sorts of hard and troublesome things. [5]
- We belong to those who have learnt to 'look upwards'--there goes the ball, up again!--and who find comfort in doing so. [10]
- So he learnt the trade, and then he was all right--but it was a close call. [5]
- You are not the less welcome, friend, for her sake, or for this old man's; nor the worse teacher for having learnt humanity. [12]
- The writer of the beautiful obituary article on "the death of Currer Bell" most likely learnt from herself what is there stated, and which I will take the liberty of quoting, about Jane Eyre. [14]
- Cyrus decided, by the advice of the dethroned king of Lydia, (as we learnt afterwards, through some prisoners of war) on meeting us in our own land and defeating us by a stratagem. [10]
- They had learnt that life was as nothing to either of them without the other, and their hearts meseemed were henceforth as closely knit as two streams which flow together to make one river, and whose waters no power on earth can ever sunder. [10]
- Birds can be taught various tunes, and even the unmelodious sparrow has learnt to sing like a linnet. [1]
- Mistress Ursula for sure knew not till then that Junker Kunz was in Alexandria, and so soon as she learnt it she began to question me. [10]
- This straight-backed and stiff necked man, who had never bowed his head save only in church and before the holy images of the saints, learnt now to stoop and bend. [10]
- Her reply, after she had learnt something of the character of her future critic, and while awaiting his criticism, must not be omitted. [14]
- The self-control which she had learnt from Nitetis gave way, and her old impetuosity burst forth again with double vehemence. [10]
- The governor's granddaughter, pretty little Mary, had learnt to speak Greek fluently and correctly before she spoke Coptic, but when Paula had first arrived she could not as yet write the beautiful language of Greece with due accuracy. [10]
- I have been permitted to trifle with love unpunished so often, that at last I have learnt to under-estimate its power. [10]
- He has learnt our language in a wonderfully short time, but it flowed from his lips like honey. [10]
- The pike went on thus for three months, but at last learnt caution, and ceased to do so. [1]
- These preliminaries disposed of, he applied himself to teaching her the game, which she soon learnt tolerably well, being both sharp-witted and cunning. [12]
- From the conversation of two Ionian mercenaries behind him he learnt that the family of Amasis had been to the temple to pray for the dying king. [10]
- When I think of the moment when he learnt Nefert's breach of faith I turn hot and cold. [10]
- At the house of Rufinus he now learnt the fate that had fallen on Paula. [10]
- Been to one o' them fashionable schools,--I 've heerd that she 's learnt to dance. [6]
- But there is nothing anomalous in the musical faculties lying dormant in man: some species of birds which never naturally sing, can without much difficulty be taught to do so; thus a house-sparrow has learnt the song of a linnet. [1]
- But this was not so; I learnt now that she had marked everything, and had heard the men's light talk about the dashing youth whom the dark-eyed hussy had been so swift to choose from among them all. [10]
- Katharina, meanwhile, did not go home at once to her mother; on the contrary, she went straight off to the Bishop of Memphis, to whom she divulged all she had learnt with regard to the inhabitants of the convent and the intended rescue. [10]
- And oh, how much I have learnt already from those two old men, of which I had no idea before! [10]
- It is a more remarkable fact that the dog, since being domesticated, has learnt to bark (49. [1]
- Simoetha has learnt many spells and charms from an Assyrian, and she tries them all. [10]
- Dureau de la Malle's dog likewise learnt from the kittens to play with a ball by rolling it about with his fore paws, and springing on it. [1]
- This was a little old gentleman, who lived in the parsonage-house, and had resided there (so they learnt soon afterwards) ever since the death of the clergyman's wife, which had happened fifteen years before. [12]
- He sank down limp and half lifeless with fright, his strength gone; but he muttered with a deep joy: "He has learnt me! [5]
- Nothingness--well, you have learnt to think; are you capable of defining the meaning of the word--a monster that has neither head nor tail, neither front nor back--can you, I say, define the idea of nothingness? [10]
- The sooner she learnt that she had nothing to expect from their son, the better for her. [10]
- All this I learnt not till some time after, inasmuch as folks would not add new cause of grief to my present sorrow. [10]
- Song was the language of her heart, and she had learnt by experience that it was a language which even the heathen could both use and understand. [10]
- If I'd a knowed this was all, I'd a learnt long ago. [5]
- Never should those knavish rogues have learnt from me what I have gladly revealed to thee who are full of goodness and beauty! [10]
- By the time it was growing dark he was once more standing outside the little gate-house, and there he learnt from Doris that the Roman and her son had not yet returned. [10]
- This they explained in fear and trembling, and they then learnt that the Arab government had that very evening taken possession of the residence. [10]
- She asked me in a low, clear voice, though hardly above a whisper, how old I was, what was my name, and what I had learnt already. [10]
- Terror had loosened his tongue; in that dreadful hour Gyges learnt once more to speak, and I, who but the moment before had been cursing the gods, bowed down before their power. [10]
- Gorgo had met him with a doubtful and embarrassed air; but when she learnt of the blow that had fallen on him and his parents, she clung to him caressingly and tried to comfort him. [10]
- There stood all her chattel, so neat as only she could make them; and I learnt from Susan that Ann had gone down, some time since, into Aunt Jacoba's chamber. [10]
- Now all naturalists have learnt by dearly bought experience, how rash it is to attempt to define species by the aid of inconstant characters. [1]
- From him he had learnt where to find the suffering Selene, of whom he could not help thinking incessantly and wherever he might be. [10]
- Ere long she had learnt that Verus also had encountered Mastor, that her husband was residing at Lochias, that he had taken part in the festival in disguise, and had exposed himself to grave danger outside the house of Apollodorus. [10]
- But the listener had learnt enough. [10]
- But, as I had compassion on his infirmities, and thought he might have learnt no better, I have managed to bring him back to you. [12]
- I learnt their grin, it suits my style of beauty. [11]
- I learnt a great deal from him, and I will not hide from you that even then he drew my attention to dangers that threaten you now. [10]
- Before I had gained my fourteenth year I had learnt that them that would explore a cunt stop'd not to consider the spelling o't. [5]
- She had learnt from the porter that her young mistress had been admitted with her companion, but she herself had been forbidden to enter the grounds. [10]
- I have learnt from my own experience, and from Paula's good friends, to strive untiringly after what is right, and to find my own weal in that of others. [10]
- The Prophet's truest friend, the wise and powerful ruler, fell by the assassin's hand, and the world now learnt that the Vekeel had been one of the chief conspirators and had been spurred on to the rashest extremes by his confidence of success. [10]
- But if Sir Franz knew not already that he, to whom he spoke as roughly as though he were a froward serving man, was in truth son and heir of a right noble house, he learnt it now. [10]
- They never pined for the turmoil of a pleasure-seeking world or its dazzling show, for they had learnt to cherish in their own hearts all that is fairest in life. [10]
- I saw her everyday, and learnt, my friends, that love is stronger than a man's will. [10]
- He had learnt, even before coming in, whom he would find here, a prisoner; and the Arabs, to whom the leech was known, allowed him to join the pair, though at the same time they came a little nearer, and their leader understood Greek. [10]
- Turning now to domesticated and confined birds, I will commence by giving what little I have learnt respecting the courtship of fowls. [1]
- Nor did she delay attending to the last wishes of old Hekt, and Bent-Anat easily persuaded her father, when he learnt how greatly he had been indebted to her, to have her embalmed like a lady of rank. [10]
- Ann, in her compassion and thankfulness, had truly learnt to love her, and she now led me to perceive that she was in many ways a right wise and good woman. [10]
- I was a changed man, and by degrees learnt ever more and more to subdue the rage and indignation which yet from time to time would boil up again within my soul, rebellious against my fate and my noble enemies. [10]
- I had learnt by experience that it was within my power to be mistress of any heart's griefs, and I could tell myself that dull sufferance of woe would have ill-pleased him whose judgment I most cared for. [10]
- He who would be beautiful must before all things be able to control himself and to be moderate--as I learnt in Rome before I ever saw Athens, and have remembered well. [10]
- Orion has at any rate learnt how far he may venture. [10]
- It has learnt and done much, both in me and for me; a hundred times, face to face with my own finished works I have asked myself: 'Is it possible that you--Hadrian--your mother's son-can have achieved this? [10]
- Soon he learnt all that had happened, and wrathfully he cried: "You are too honest for those wise gentlemen in the House of Seti, and too pure and zealous for the rabble here. [10]
- I learnt by accident that you were an Alexandrian, and had been a heathen, and had suffered much for the faith, and with that I was satisfied. [10]
- This time, however, a lesson had been learnt, and the toad was seized by one leg, withdrawn, and then swallowed in triumph. [1]
- It was of a gipsy mother that I learnt it; she sang it to a man in despair--in despair for your sake, Ann--in the forest of Fontainebleau. [10]
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