1 All the courtesy, all the gentleness Ellen had striven to instill in her had fallen away from her as quickly as leaves fall from trees in the first chill wind of autumn.
2 Certainly, I might have lived happily amongst those good people, who adored me, but my perverse disposition prevailed over the virtues which my adopted mother endeavored to instil into my heart.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 110. The Indictment. 3 She watched it jealously, as though it were her own property and Lily its mere custodian; and she tried to instil into the latter a sense of the responsibility that such a charge involved.
4 I believed he was naturally a man of better tendencies, higher principles, and purer tastes than such as circumstances had developed, education instilled, or destiny encouraged.
5 , of the parties, the less I felt justified in judging and blaming either him or Miss Ingram for acting in conformity to ideas and principles instilled into them, doubtless, from their childhood.
6 I feared early instilled prejudice: I wanted to have you safe before hazarding confidences.
7 I dare say it was with the best intentions; But I get reprimanded for permitting radical ideas to be instilled in the minds of the young.
8 No one had instilled into him this love for Pierre whom he saw only occasionally.
9 She seemed to possess by instinct all the household wisdom that his long apprenticeship had not instilled in him.
10 The sufferings of the first six years of her life had instilled something passive into her nature.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY 11 The instilment thereof into her mind would probably have caused this aged sister to drop down dead, at once, as by the effect of an intensely poisonous infusion.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE 12 Golenishtchev never let slip an opportunity of instilling sound ideas about art into Mihailov.
13 He's worse than a Jacobin freethinker, and he instils such pernicious ideas into the minds of the young that I can hardly describe it.