1 And scaring the darkies and teaching the Scallawags a lesson is one of them.
2 If such a warning had ever been needful, the years had taught her a salutary lesson, and she flattered herself that she now knew how to adapt her pace to the object of pursuit.
3 You say your friends have persuaded you to play cards with them; well, they may as well learn a lesson too.
4 She had a first lesson in shooting, in keeping her eyes open, not wincing, understanding that the bead at the end of the barrel really had something to do with pointing the gun.
5 As sinful men, it is a lesson to us all, because it is a story of the sin, hard-heartedness, suddenly awakened fears, the swift punishment, repentance, prayers, and finally the deliverance and joy of Jonah.
6 But observe his prayer, and learn a weighty lesson.
7 This, shipmates, this is that other lesson; and woe to that pilot of the living God who slights it.
8 Nor has this thy whale sunwards turned his dying head, and then gone round again, without a lesson to me.
9 Almost every day she came running across the prairie to have her reading lesson with me.
10 When the lesson was over, we used to go up to the watermelon patch behind the garden.
11 ONE AFTERNOON WE WERE having our reading lesson on the warm, grassy bank where the badger lived.
12 Frances taught us to dance that winter, and she said, from the first lesson, that Antonia would make the best dancer among us.
13 One day Samson was standing thus while Miss Nellie was playing her lesson to her music-teacher.
14 Often the mothers brought their fancywork and sat on the shady side of the tent during the lesson.
15 I propped my book open and stared listlessly at the page of the 'Georgics' where tomorrow's lesson began.'