1 She is excellently educated, and would make a good matron in a boarding-school.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama 2 I no longer adhere to my intention of giving with my own mouth rudimentary education to the lowest class.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama 3 His eyesight, by long humouring in his native air, had grown stronger, but not sufficiently strong to warrant his attempting his extensive educational project.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His 4 Her high gods were William the Conqueror, Strafford, and Napoleon Buonaparte, as they had appeared in the Lady's History used at the establishment in which she was educated.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night 5 Yeobright was unwilling to disturb this idea, though his scheme was far enough removed from one wherein the education of youth should be made a mere channel of social ascent.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama 6 To see him there, a poor afflicted man, earning money by the sweat of his brow, had at first moved her to tears; but to hear him sing and not at all rebel against an occupation which, however satisfactory to himself, was degrading to her, as an educated lady-wife, wounded her through.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song 7 But the musician did his best; adopted his wife's name, made England permanently his home, took great trouble with his child's education, the expenses of which were defrayed by the grandfather, and throve as the chief local musician till her mother's death, when he left off thriving, drank, and died also.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night