learned

I honour the refractory, fastidious tongues and stomachs, which have learned to say "I" and "Yea" and "Nay."

But as time went on, as life became more easy, in one way or another the savage learned to become less savage.

But now it was only to the HOT lands that a learned man had come from the cold; there he thought that he could run about just as when at home, but he soon found out his mistake.

"Oh, you can do them without learning," said Philip; "I never learned drawing."

The first thing I ever learned in the way of book knowledge was while working in this salt-furnace.

After I had learned this, she assisted me in learning to spell words of three or four letters.

"Have you learned anything at Redmond except dead languages and geometry and such trash?" queried Aunt Jamesina.

By the device therefore of his motto, it became impracticable for any man to presume to imitate the Spectators, without understanding at least one sentence in the learned languages.

Later, when he accidentally learned from his old nurse that his mother was not dead, and his father and Lidia Ivanovna had explained to him that she was dead to him because she was wicked (which he could not possibly believe, because he loved her), he went on seeking her and expecting her in the same way.

Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him--and how, on a single dog, to inflict the greatest amount of damage in the briefest space of time.

They had not learned the nobler dialects of Greece and Rome, but the very materials on which they were written were waste paper to them, and they prized instead a cheap contemporary literature.

In his desire alike to instruct and to be instructed, he travelled through many countries, and among others came to Sardis, the capital of the famous king of Lydia, the great patron, in that day, of learning and of learned men.