1 She's barely seventeen, not too old to learn new ways.
2 He could never learn like other people, never acquired any finish.
3 While we snuggled down there out of the wind, she learned a score of words.
4 Suddenly put down among boys of my own age, I found I had a great deal to learn.
5 Antonia loved to help grandmother in the kitchen and to learn about cooking and housekeeping.
6 Tony learned English so quickly that by the time school began she could speak as well as any of us.
7 No, I'm glad I had a chance to learn; but I'm thankful none of my daughters will ever have to work out.
8 Mrs. Shimerda grumbled, but realized it was important that one member of the family should learn English.
9 'Maybe you lose a steer and learn not to make somethings with your eyes at married men,' Mrs. Shimerda told her hectoringly.
10 The Bohemian and Scandinavian girls could not get positions as teachers, because they had had no opportunity to learn the language.
11 They had not learned much English, and were not so ambitious as Tony or Lena; but they were kind, simple girls and they were always happy.
12 I soon learned that if I were sent over on an errand and found Mrs. Harling at the piano, I must sit down and wait quietly until she turned to me.
13 When Ambrosch came back from Mr. Bushy's, we learned that he had given Marek's wages to the priest at Black Hawk, for Masses for their father's soul.
14 They went away to strange towns, but when people learned where they came from, they were always asked if they knew the two men who had fed the bride to the wolves.
15 I learned that Mrs. Gardener had gone to Omaha to hear Booth and Barrett, who were to play there next week, and that Mary Anderson was having a great success in 'A Winter's Tale,' in London.
16 He said he would have come to see the Shimerdas before, but he had hired out to husk corn all the fall, and since winter began he had been going to the school by the mill, to learn English, along with the little children.
17 The older girls, who helped to break up the wild sod, learned so much from life, from poverty, from their mothers and grandmothers; they had all, like Antonia, been early awakened and made observant by coming at a tender age from an old country to a new.
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