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Example sentences for "could learn"

  • So far as we could learn by inquiry, or judge by careful observation, the ignorance of the mass of the people is simply deplorable.

  • This is an English enterprise; but so far as we could learn, it had been found impossible to compete profitably with the American flour, as now landed at Rio.

  • It is nutritious, that is freely admitted; but most probably it has some medicinal properties of a latent character, though of this we could learn nothing.

  • As far as I could learn there is no such feeling now.

  • The stall in time disappeared, and I could learn nothing of his last end, if it has come.

  • There is very little tune to it, and the words, so far as I could learn, are extempore.

  • All this time the poor Muchie Rajah was hunting in every part of the country for his wife, but he could learn no tidings of her.

  • So he sat out on his travels, but for some months he could learn nothing to help him in his search.

  • But you quite forgot to give me the money, and you went away, and I returned to my father's house till I could learn tidings of you; how can you be so cruel?

  • They seemed to me to be cleaner than the others, and, as far as I could learn, were in better health.

  • As far as I could learn, nothing did pay, except government contracts.

  • As far as I could learn, the servants of the post-office are less liberally paid in the States than with us, excepting as regards two classes.

  • From what I could learn, it much resembles a Revival.

  • Timor was a picturesque mountainous island, but its commerce as far as we could learn consisted of Timor ponies--sturdy little beasts--and postage stamps.

  • She would give me lectures during their progress on such topics as the Parable of the Talents--quite ignoring the elementary fact that though I could learn most of my lessons quickly enough I had absolutely no talent for music.

  • Still, however, as far as we could learn during a brief stay of some twenty-four hours, though there was surface peace, intrigue and suspicion were still rampant.

  • And when you asked me why I used to think that I could learn cat-talk I said I would tell you that story about the King of the Cats which was told to me when I was a very little fellow about your age.

  • So far as I could learn, General Brown gave him the orders.

  • From what I could learn, I thought the movement of that battery and the necessity for two thousand men was rather an unwise one, and I advised against it; but the battery was taken out, and the measure was successfully accomplished.

  • When he first went into the water, he knew he could learn to swim.

  • He could learn how to speak better, if nothing else," was the reply.

  • Charlie laughed outright, and added, "I think I could learn to navigate that ocean of butter and molasses that he got up on the plate.

  • Here we again rested until the intention of the enemy could be divined, and we could learn on which side of Dick's River he would give us battle.

  • Here the traveler will see that rare and favorite fruit, the mangosteen, flourishing, and, so far as we could learn, it is one of the few districts in Ceylon where it is to be found.

  • It is a singular fact that the dreaded sharks rarely if ever attack the natives, and so far as we could learn no lives are sacrificed to them by the pearl divers in the season of their operations.

  • All that we could learn of the cause of this operation was that a Confederate flag, an Enfield rifle and a set of accoutrements marked "O.

  • As far as we could learn, this proposition was not less obnoxious to the Union men than to the rebels.

  • Of the cause of the firing we had heard, we could learn nothing.

  • Horseback exercise was even regarded as hazardous, and other forms of exertion had not been urged, or, that I could learn, so much as recommended.

  • Nor had it, so far as I could learn, at all injured her.

  • She returned, at times, to medical advice and medicine; but, so far as I could learn, with little permanent good effect.

  • No restriction, nor indeed any direction, so far as I could learn, had been made at this period, with regard to his mental food.

  • I have the cash to pay for two teams or three: I brought plenty for the journey to Aquileia, because we could learn little of the state of the roads beyond Bononia and I thought I might have to travel by Placentia or even by Milan.

  • After I could learn of no more books on beasts I took to comedies and read Naevius, all of Menander and Caecilius, and most of the best plays of other writers of comedies; then.

  • All were too excited to sleep and every tent, as far as I could learn, talked without cessation.

  • Among these twenty-five elephants were two which were larger than any I had ever seen before, and if I had thought I could learn to not be afraid, I would have taken one of them while the police were not looking.

  • From what I could learn, all that a man gets for this is merely the saving of his soul.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    could assume; could bring; could desire; could devise; could draw; could ever; could guess; could have; could hear; could imagine; could manage; could neither; could not help being; could not help thinking; could only have been; could recover; could reply; could say; could spare; could swear; could tell; could trust; could understand; couldst thou; keen glance; that way