1 Those girls had grown up in the first bitter-hard times, and had got little schooling themselves.
2 This is my schooling, major; and if one neglects the book, there is little chance of learning from the open land of Providence.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21 3 You have spoken as a man, and like one who, under wiser schooling, would have been brought to better things.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26 4 My schooling was paid for; it was a bargain; and when I came away, the bargain ended.
5 "He thinks himself somebody because he has had a bit more schooling than we," said the Doctor.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight 6 Most of the children get their schooling after the "crops are laid by," and very few there are that stay in school after the spring work has begun.
7 I had no schooling whatever while I was a slave, though I remember on several occasions I went as far as the schoolhouse door with one of my young mistresses to carry her books.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter I. 8 I have never been unfaithful to you or your schooling.
9 Boys of small capacity he did not long retain in his establishment; whereas those who possessed exceptional talent he put through an extra course of schooling.
10 It made out four thousand pay-rolls a year, registered all freedmen, inquired into grievances and redressed them, laid and collected taxes, and established a system of public schools.
11 He succeeded Pierce and the Treasury officials, and sold forfeited estates, leased abandoned plantations, encouraged schools, and received from Sherman, after that terribly picturesque march to the sea, thousands of the wretched camp followers.
12 The Bureau invited continued cooperation with benevolent societies, and declared: "It will be the object of all commissioners to introduce practicable systems of compensated labor," and to establish schools.
13 National opinion has enabled this last class to maintain the Negro common schools, and to protect the Negro partially in property, life, and limb.
14 There came a day when all the teachers left the Institute and began the hunt for schools.
15 There were army schools, mission schools, and schools of the Freedmen's Bureau in chaotic disarrangement seeking system and co-operation.