How To Use Earned In A Sentence

It is, we learned, easier to learn to fly a plane than to master touch-typing. Radio review: Fry's English Delight: The Trial Of Qwerty
I learned how to negotiate fights between adolescent girls without making it seem like parental interference.
It wasn't a bad program; with full profs as teachers, I read a lot and learned a lot.
A few nights ago, after viewing one of these, I was quaffing beer in Bombay Peggy's and learned that every one of the four women at the table happened to live on the other side of a river, either the Yukon or the Klondike.
I sat for a moment, wondering what on earth Kip would have done to me once he learned - if he did not already know - that it was I who snitched, when something stung the side of my face a bit.

They contended that many foreign central banks were willing to absorb all the foreign currency earned by their exporting sectors that was not willingly held by their private sector in US dollar denominated assets.
Norman Neal Williams had been a transient, they learned, an itinerant vitamin salesman with no known relatives. MORE TALES OF THE CITY
‘Ah Dublin, you're giving it away,’ he wailed in the 55th minute, as the Dublin defence fluffed its lines yet again, giving Laois another unearned scoring opportunity.
Connection is here something both yearned for and guarded against. The Times Literary Supplement
One goes like this: He was a hideous giant named Offero, who earned a living carrying travelers across the river.
I first learned about cassowaries when I was at the School for Field Studies SFS Center for Rainforest Studies in Fall of 1990 as a college student, and was fascinated that they're the only bird that can "scarify" certain rainforest seeds. Archive 2008-07-01
I learned to depend on him for practical advice under fire.
Then take a well-earned rest and relax with all the other amazing puzzles on offer. The Sun
I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. John Lennon
She learned to scramble around and even run sideways, but not forward.
MacFadzean plays Richie Excellent, the young funster who wields unearned celebrity.
Amid it all stands Mitt Romney, not the high-flying investment lots of Republicans yearned to put their money on, but the unspectacular Treasury bill of Republican candidates, a man whose emphasis on jobs and the economy makes him a safe enough bet at a time like this. GOP 'Flight to Safety' Benefits Romney
So, we've learned now that this information was shared with spies.
Holders of income shares got all the income earned from the trust, while holders of capital shares got all the capital gain.
Walpole from then on ridiculed GW, calling him a fanfaron braggart, and saying that he soon “learned to blush for his rodomontade.” George Washington’s First War
Then, the phrase had struck Vincent as doting and naive, but sometime during his stay in Toulio, as his grasp of the Chinese language deepened, and as he learned—or was forced to learn—from his mistakes, he had felt the title gain merit and accuracy. Heaven Lake
The jury, which began deliberations last Friday after a six-week trial, had to decide whether Castroneves, his sister-manager Katiucia "Kati" Castroneves, 35, and Michigan sports attorney Alan R. Miller, 71, evaded U.S. taxes on more than $5.5 million income that the race driver earned between 1999-2004 from his arrangement with Penske Racing. Undefined
I had mixed feelings when I learned of your new assignment. Although we will miss you, we have to admit that management has made a wise choice in placing you where they can benefit most from your talents. We will long remember the hard work and happy moments we have shared. You have been a great team member. Best wishes and keep up the good work.
Uncle Fliakim Sheril, furbished up in a new crisp black suit, and with his spindleshanks trimly incased in the smoothest of black silk stockings, looking for all the world just like an alert and spirited black cricket, outdid himself on this occasion in singing _counter_, in that high, weird voice that he must have learned from the wintry winds that usually piped around the corners of the old house. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
The majority of the new settlers lived in rural areas and earned their living through farming.
The reason economists are sympathetic to signalling is that they are very smart (yes, really) and are among the people who probably don't benefit greatly from college, they learned how to think at high school and are mostly self-educated anyway. Free Education Valued at Cost, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
His administration has earned low marks for its economic policies.
Donnelly's PNAC report -- a blueprint followed faithfully by the Bush Administration -- openly yearned for a "new Pearl Harbor" that would "catalyze" the American people into adopting PNAC's global militarist agenda wholesale. Undefined
He was called to the Irish bar in 1951 and has earned a reputation as an esteemed playwright, poet and biographer.
That was a trick you learned early, from the regimental bonzes who instructed noblemen's sons. Do you ever read writing?
A considerable amount of tax collection is now done, in effect, by casinos; rather than raise taxes to pay for services, legislatures legalize gambling and then take a rake-off from the profits earned by private casino companies. The Sack of Washington
Your Honours, apropos of what our learned friend said about the Justice's judgment, in our submission, it highlights the error.
I learned to type before I learned to write cursively and I loathe paper ... Boing Boing: December 22, 2002 - December 28, 2002 Archives
Any public expression of their faith was considered dangerous, and they had learned to dissimulate their specific Christian identity.
It won't be until that age that they've earned enough money to enable them to live a simple life in retirement.
Each camp featured league play in two divisions, where the campers put into practice what they had learned throughout the week.
If, through their labors to transform misava into masimu, women established traditional tenure rights not explicitly recognized by patriliny, then likewise, through the everyday habits of farming, women learned, performed, and nurtured relationships that overlapped with, but ranged far beyond, blood - and marriage-based patrilineal kinship. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
She earned ￡2 000in commission last month.
A less ambitious painter would have been content merely to bask in the glory that his canvases had earned him.
I had mixed feelings when I learned of your new assignment. Although we will miss you, we have to admit that management has made a wise choice in placing you where they can benefit most from your talents. We will long remember the hard work and happy moments we have shared. You have been a great team member. Best wishes and keep up the good work.
Furthermore, a series of strategic gaffs have further badly damaged the already squalid reputation which the industry has earned for itself.
Any golfer who qualified for the Tour had assuredly earned and paid for the privilege.
Why, I wonder, don't these novels ever depict a brave new world that's learned its lesson, one that's loving and gentle instead of harsh and brutal?
Pickles has earned widespread plaudits since taking office for his energetic and radical approach to reforming local government. Times, Sunday Times
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He learned to recognize pneumonia, bronchiectasis, pleurisy, emphysema, pneumothorax, phthisis, and other lung diseases from the sounds he heard with his stethoscope.
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau
I give more credit to the nameless women who settled the frontier and thus earned the right to vote in western states.
That which seemeth to me most likelie, I haue noted, beseeching the learned (as I trust they will) in such points of doubtfull antiquities to beare with my skill: sith for ought I know, the matter is not yet decided among the learned, but still they are in controuersie about it, and as yet Sub iudice lis est. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6) England (1 of 12) William the Conqueror
Then my mind wandered to how Marija Gimbutas and others have earned a bad rap for their insistence on skewing historical perspective with their matriarchal/matrifocal ideals of an 'Old Europe', i.e. Matriarchy and women rulers
Then the '90s hit, corporations further alienated people with touch-tone technology, and we all learned that the little guy on the lower-right corner of our dial pad had an easier to pronounce name than ‘#.’
I learned the word dépanneur 'convenience store'; I heard the affricated d and t; I did not notice the tense/lax vowels or the -tu questions; I did notice the contractions (chais &c) and a feature nobody mentioned in the comments, the raising of nasalized vowels: vent sounded almost like vin (with /æ/ as in hat), and vin had a high [e] and sounded diphthongized ([veiN]) -- in fact, one guy said matin so that it struck my ears as [matiN]. Languagehat.com: MONTREAL 2.
Though the last is listed in Welsh's bibliography, its lessons appear unlearned.
And one thing I have learned is that there is a certain inexorability to them. Wolfram Blog : Today, Mathematica Is Reinvented
Cornelia the mother of the Gracchi, contributed much to the eloquence of her sons; and her learned stile is handed down to posterity in her letters. Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination
I'd listened to the programme a fair few times during my last year at school '93-4 and been dazzled by its mix of inspired music, learned guests, poetry, comedy and all-round self-deprecating dementedness, but it wasn't until I left for university that I became a devout fan. Archive 2006-04-01
I first learned to type on a keypunch machine in my father's office.
May she enjoy a long and happy well-earned retirement.
Learning Although some of our behaviour is based on reflex and instinctive reactions, most of our behaviour is learned. Personnel Management: A New Approach
They learned to dress and pack the catch, their clothes crusted with scales, the boards of the shanty slick with gurry beneath their feet. AMAGANSETT
Curt Gowdy, baseball trivia, quotes, what i've learned, major league, baseball history, opening day curt gowdy broadcaster interviewed 2003 Esquire.com Article Feed
Now seeing in the last section, those we call mathematics are absolved of the crime of breeding controversy; and they that pretend not to learning cannot be accused; the fault lieth altogether in the dogmatics, that is to say, those that are imperfectly learned, and with passion press to have their opinions pass everywhere for truth, without any evident demonstration either from experience, or from places of Scripture of uncontroverted interpretation. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
During this time, I learned from Shubal that kirtan is a spiritual practice similar to meditation but considered by some to be much more enjoyable because it involves singing, and singing, he says, makes you thoughtless. Sandy Henson Corso: My First Kirtan
Lessons of IVF babies mix-up ‘will be learned’ Report pinpoints series of failures at Yorkshire fertility clinic where white couple had mixed-race twins in error
Gustav, though, would have learned little from the post's most famous survivor-a buckskin gelding named Comanche.
The Spinone was the dog breed most capable of getting through the pinos and as a result, earned the name. Undefined
We slogged around looking for suicidal prairie dogs and learned that hills and gumbo can overcome the best four-wheel drive trucks.
Algorisme being popularly reduced in OFr. to augorime, English also shows two forms, the popular augrime, ending in agrim, agrum, and the learned algorism which passed through many pseudo-etymological perversions, including a recent algorithm in which it is learnedly confused with Gr. number.' Languagehat.com: MATHEMATICAL TERMS.
Now a common-place person would have been satisfied with the recommendation of the medical man, who looks but to the one thing needful, which is a sufficient and wholesome supply of nourishment for the child; but Mr Easy was a philosopher, and had latterly taken to craniology, and he descanted very learnedly with the Doctor upon the effect of his only son obtaining his nutriment from an unknown source. Mr. Midshipman Easy
The fighting officers learned to specialise: in navigation, gunnery and torpedoes.
Most physicists probably learned about the laws of thermodynamics at high school, but few of us will have been told the whole story.
John Hales, clerk of the hanaper, a learned and able man, and, like all who espoused this party, a zealous protestant, had written, and secretly circulated, a book in defence of the claims of the lady Catherine, and he had also procured opinions of foreign lawyers in favor of the validity of her marriage. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
The learned trial judge took the view that he is a very dangerous character.
The fact that compassion is both voluntary and learned differentiates it from other kinds of suffering, which are involuntary and connate.
But they knew well, that the churchman was a far cunninger, as well as a more learned, man than themselves. Hereward, the Last of the English
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
This video didn't really teach me how "inducement and entrainment" power the bladeless Air Multiplier fans, but I learned that these things can definitely induce a balloon to be awesome. Daily Dispatch: Digital revolution causing car culture decline; Criminals rent botnets at bargain rates
They felt a deep sense of indebtedness to the learned scholars of the early medieval period.
Pickron, who had experience in the background-screening industry, soon learned the landscaper was a convicted felon released from prison two years earlier. Azcentral.com | news
We have also learned that many of the featured biographees order personal copies to keep as a cherished record of their accomplishments.
The term implies sacrifice or taking less than what could be earned in the private sector or in an entrepreneurial position. MarketWatch.com - Top Stories
Phyllis Magelky, head clinician at Dakota Orofacial Myology, 3309 Fiechtner Drive, Fargo, has earned certification in orafacial myology. Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND
Karen was born hearing impaired and learned to lip-read but, after her hearing failed completely in October 2002, she decided to have the operation when she discovered she was eligible for treatment.
I learned he had the same goofy sense of humor I was cursed with.
Their baggage mules transported not only the precious vases, but even the fragile vessels of crystal and murra, which last is almost proved, by the learned French translator of Seneca, (tom.iii. p. 402-422,) to mean the porcelain of China and History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3
Abraham learned that God had selected and foreordained many spirits to specific missions in mortality.
Founded in 1660, the Society has three roles, as the UK academy of science, as a learned Society, and as a funding agency.
Levi-Montalcini studied with Giuseppe Levi (1872 – 1965), a leading histologist and lecturer from whom she learned the systems and research methods that accompanied her throughout her life. Rita Levi-Montalcini.
His follow-up picture Assassin premiered at Cannes in 1997 to particularly dismissive critical opprobrium and never earned a release in the UK.
As I learned later, Howard and Marie were below prepping food.
I differ with great diffidence from the learned Baron whose Oriental reading was extensive; but the tale does not seem to justify his explanations. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
At this stage I'm going around with a martyred look on my face, indicating to everyone that I am abstaining from something, which goes against what I learned at school.
And what I have learned -- I could spend several hours talking to you about it but let me try to capsulate just very quickly. Remarks By The President And Race Advisory Board
A delicate balance of smoulder and sensitivity that's best experienced on YouTube, where the track has rapidly earned a million views. F&M playlist
She earned 60,000 a year as a web designer before the tech bubble burst. Times, Sunday Times
Le larron does not seem to be used in conversational French (my daughter taught me the word after she learned it in her French class while reading a classic text) ... so here are some useful synonyms: un escroc (swindler, con man, crook) un malfaiteur (burglar) un voleur (thief) French Word-A-Day:
He earned the sobriquet from an uncanny ability to always pick the right stocks. Times, Sunday Times
Joseph early in life learned that quick wit would get him through.
Effie learned they had taken his straitjacket off and unchained his feet after he'd been asleep a few hours.
The book's perspective that leadership can be learned through exposure to the experiences of others comes through loud and clear.
Your Honour, from my perspective I am trying to understand the arbitrary and capricious argument that my learned friends are putting forward.
Remember that ant farm..." `Why haven't we learned to ice skate, or ski? BARN BLIND
I have learned recently that in almost all cases, food is distributed to recipients prior to their doing any work.
When examining the world through the lens of multiple perspectives, students learned to think critically and to evaluate sources carefully to construct theories of their own.
As a boy chorister in his Czech-Moravian homeland, Janácek 1854-1928 learned early the potential of choral writing. Janácek: Choral Works – review
The lessons learned in the Bristol inquiry were clearly stated in the report.
Most importantly, any income earned abroad must stay abroad to be tax-free. Times, Sunday Times
She has learned to scuba dive and fly an airplane.
Having learned that lies procreate exponentially, Rosas was forced to implement some rules and demand discretion. HAVANA BEST FRIENDS
She learned to pray at two or three, and felt chosen to preach the gospel to the heathen from eleven.
And what I've learned is not to trust that cowardly little squit, Mundungus. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
And I, who was, for my age, what Kitty called 'Bible-learned,' said thoughtfully, and with some puzzledness of mind, 'Then he's older than The Children's Book of Christmas Stories
Then Zeus changed the maiden into a heifer, to save her from the anger of Here, but presently Here learned that the heifer was the maiden whom she hated, and she went to Zeus, and said, Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
Whether Swedish, shiatsu or a basic sports massage, these rubdowns have earned their reputation for buoying mind, body and spirit.
The imperative to move quickly past fossil fuels to clean energies - wind, solar and biomass - and conservation measures such as retrofitting homes, was noted by those reporting that 2009 and 2010 have been the hottest years on record, and Boulder and Jefferson County (where Coors operates a coal-fired plant) have earned an "F" grade for ozone levels in recent years. Michele Swenson: The Urgency of Toxic Coal Ash Regulation and the Move to Clean Energy
If you're a foreign correspondent, you've got a plum assignment and you've learned how to play the game.
Not so much a time for learned study, or even a fake attempt at seeking knowledge.
The learned Sanskritist, H.H. Wilson, quotes the name Pippilika = ant-gold, given by the people of Little Thibet to the precious dust thrown up in the emmet heaps. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
She revealed she only recently learned the alphabet as she had to home-school her three-year-old daughter. The Sun
We learned, Ruby and I, that this was a way of being theatrical as well as the other way, and we learned, from Carnovsky and Da Silva, that there was no difference in terms of professional standards and requirements between the actor who merely stood in front of a lectern and the actor who has the benefit of makeup and props and all of the other things. Life Lit by Some Large Vision
This past week, the two little guys learned - with amazing suddenness - how to ride bikes.
Scanning the Internet, she learned about a hereditary condition called hemochromatosis, in which the body stores iron at dangerous concentrations in the blood, tissues and organs. A Revolution In Medicine
Many studies have been done exploring the degree to which birdsong is innate or learned behavior.
However, multiplication is typically learned first and most individuals are more practiced on multiplication then division.
A Los Angeles artist who gave that city's art establishment a bursting sense of pride for having nurtured such an obstreperous talent, he earned his celebrity status in part by retaining the obsessions and wounds of a smart Catholic working-class kid from the suburbs of Detroit who had never entirely assimilated to his sun-splashed California home. How Will the Future Judge Him?
It would be sounded high that he debased human nature, which has a "cognation," so the reverend and learned Doctor Cudworth calls it, with the divine; that the soul of man, immaterial and immortal by its nature, was made to contemplate higher and nobler objects than this sensible world, and even than itself, since it was made to contemplate God and to be united to Him. Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope
If that is true, when taxpayers who want to keep their hard-earned money are compared to politicians who want to take it from them to feed their uncontrolled spending, whose appetite better warrants the word insatiable? '
A liability for unearned revenue arises when a customer pays in advance.
An annuity in perpetuity does not have a fixed time span but continues indefinitely and receipts can therefore only come from interest earned. Collins Dictionary of Economics
Of particular beauty here, of course, is the use of utterly inappropriate terms to maintain the rhyme, which saw ‘gloat’ used as a noun directly above this unlearned and unlovely deformed child of a verse.
From the dawning of Greek Classicism to well beyond the Italian Renaissance, artists learned to faithfully master contrapposto, linear perspective, and the like in order to achieve the great, mythic aspiration of beauty. Rebecca Taylor: All I Really Need To Know I Learned From Baldessari
One old man, who I learned was a bosun, was so decrepit that I thought he had been recently injured. CHAPTER II
There was a time when rugby greats earned their crusts in towns like this. Times, Sunday Times
He learned right off the bat that you can't count on anything in this business.
Die-hard fans will have no problem plunking down their hard-earned dough.
But it is hard to say, because although under age, he enlisted as an Ordinary Seaman on the outbreak of World War II, later going to the Fleet Air Arm as a telegraphist air gunner, earned a commission, and served overseas - at eighteen years of age probably the youngest sublieutenant in the RCNVR. Looking for Trouble
The cairns you see along the way were once used for supporting the coffin while the bearers took a well-earned rest.
Curtis earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance in 1958's "The Defiant Ones, " playing an escaped racist convict chained to a black prisoner, portrayed by Sidney Poitier.
Meantime the bear has learned to paddle around all by itself on its hind legs, and says "poppa" and "momma. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
So I learned that giving compliments is a great way to change the world! » What I Learned in December 2009 Strocel.com
What I discovered in Bruce Hindmarsh's learned biography was that Newton became a convert not because of his disgust for the slave trade, but because of his horror at the dissolute life he had led.
Sports would be a far more amusing place if it relaxed, exhaled and learned a lesson from this lo-fi World Series between Texas and San Francisco, which the Giants now lead three games to one after a brilliant 4-0 shutout win propelled by rookie pitcher Madison Bumgarner. If Only the Entire Sports World Were as Wacky
Parent Network believes that parenting can be learned, and that improved communication can do wonders for family harmony.
Despite the reverse, Kiwi Searancke's players earned a consolation bonus point to cling on to their lead in Pool B and remain on course to secure a home quarter-final.
We learned by experience that we have to keep all three in mind. A Channel of Peace
The network earned its ratings by pushing boundaries – Miami Vice stylised the police drama, while Hill Street Blues gave it gritty realism. How the internet has all but destroyed the market for films, music and newspapers
Left to wander the streets of his native San Diego alone, the boy learned baseball on the sandlots at an early age.
On these trips Fred learned many skills such as picking locks and cracking safes.
But linear perspective itself is probably a renaissance not an antique invention, and Durer's approach to ancient architecture is remarkably free and unlearned.
I learned how to swim by the unrecommended method of throwing a kid into a pool and seeing what happens. Archive 2007-05-01
The old look out towers had to be manned against corsairs but they also earned their keep as observation points for the lucrative and highly organized hunts for the great shoals of tuna fish.
Their efforts earned them the titles of Best Farm Shop and Entrepreneur of the Year.
“Well, there’s this thing I learned in music theory called accelerando,” I offered. I slept with Joey Ramone
We also ran Google Ads on circlet. com for a year, and also never earned enough to get paid a dime. Ceciliatan: Web serial novel: how the experiment is going
He still yearned after her, even after all these years.
He chose Sazanka because, in Japan, the plant represents the ideal of “never giving up”—a designation earned by the way that the flower survives the cold, even after snowfalls. First Contact
To teach them to embrace dependency on the government is to embrace learned helplessness.
Although the mechanisms which permit modification of behavior are inherited, learned behavior does not emerge from, and is not an extension of, the unlearned behavior of the individual.
Much remains to be learned about how respondents go about answering written questionnaires.
Others have countered that small land-dwelling dinosaurs learned to fly without ever developing arboreal habits: no trees were needed.
His agent raked a quarter off everything he earned this time.
Blue-eyed men may have unconsciously learned to value a physical trait that can facilitate recognition of own kin," the scientists said in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
In 1969, he applied for Officer Candidate School and earned a commission as an Infantry officer.
Humanity has come so far, yet we're still just a bunch of blundering boobs who've learned nothing from past mistakes.
And it is reassuring to know that my ears are taking a well-earned rest. Times, Sunday Times
He had learned that it was not to befriend his subordinates, nor to compete with or dominate them.
He explains that he's reapplied those principles learned in France at his restaurants.
I have learned to adapt the eating plan to my needs.
His recitals have earned him recognition as a talented performer.
The son of a Covent Garden barber, he was initially self-taught and learned through copying prints and drawings and assisting architectural draughtsmen.
Twitter has earned plenty of developer ire for its release of official products that will likely quash those offered by independent players in its historically vibrant developer community, and its policing of third-party applications that include the word "twit" or "tweet" has had plenty of opponents as well. CNET News.com
They sketched woodland plants and trees and learned how to use a digital camera.
No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship -- not though it be of the Garter -- confers so fair an honour. Can You Forgive Her?
They abound in matters of interest to the investigator of masonic symbolism and philosophy, but should be read with a careful view of the preconceived theory of the learned author, who refers everything in the ancient religions to the influences of the Noachic cataclysm, and the arkite worship which he supposes to have resulted from it. The Symbolism of Freemasonry
Sebastian was probably the best in their batch, although that was expected, since if Jacob's theory was true, he must be a nob, and nobs always learned to fence fancy.
While Mortar was thus learnedly discoursing, Sel-quist herded his team over to a staircase, which was cut out of the rock wall and zig-zagged down the side of the cliff. The Doom Brigade
Several university presidents chaired committees and, following customary practices, earned an additional fee for this responsibility.
The general's courage and presence of mind earned him deep admiration among the armymen.
He has all the scatophagous faults of the unlearned. Orbis quintus
She has establshied good will with many people across the aisle. did you miss that Steve Clemons found that your belove pretender was negligent with the only job he could have learned something about foreign policy? Bill Clinton: Hillary Will Call Upon Bush 41
But there is a great many discoursive structures, a lot of semantics and pragmatics, that are not learned until much later, even in monolinguals. Languagehat.com: MULTILINGUAL KID.
The rest of us (who are not learned scholars) can only infer, deduce and feel His Hand.
His goal earned replay in round two. Times, Sunday Times
Several of these he had had printed himself, financed by advance subscription from libraries and members of learned bodies such as the Royal Asiatic Society.
Your next frequent-flier award flight may cost you $800 or more in fuel surcharges on top of your thousands of hard-earned miles. Why 'Free' Tickets Cost So Much
They indulged in some serious horseshoeing and harness making, but more frequently their band earned its living amusing, and sometimes fleecing, visitors to holy sites, festivals, and fairs. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
Returning home, she learned from a neighbor that there had been a commotion in her condo.
Ludovico di Varthema — the vir Deo carus, be it remarked, of the learned and laical Julius Caesar Scaliger: Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Then a woman called Jenny McPherson, who had in early life, like "a good Scotch louse," who "aye travels south," found her way from Lochaber to London, where she had got into George's kitchen, and learned something better than to make sour kraut, was the individual who administered to her master's epicureanism, if not gulosity. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII
In the Shiite branch of Islam, a high-ranking religious authority regarded by his followers as the most learned person of his age.
This is the last week of classes so I am ending with a bang, or rather a "splat" - the class concludes with a great egg toss (one student today managed to successfully catch a raw egg with her face, much to the enjoyment of her peers) and a brief letter (abridged below) I wrote to all my students, concerning what I have learned in China this past year: Chengdu TOT (Training Of Trainees)
I've learned one thing in this game: If you play long enough, you will be humbled.
I also seem to have a perpetual mild toothache, ever since my new dentist, a Romanian who obviously learned her métier under the Ceausescu regime, attempted to fill a molar as if she were loading a mortar.
I am no bereavement counsellor, but in the last few months, I have learned a lot about ‘coping’ after my mother passed away.
An incredible horror-barely mitigated by the gallantry award and hero's status he had earned by staking his own life.
As local police recently learned, it is also a convenient place to dump a victim, with its shoulder-high brush. New Bones in Killing Probe
I can play the piano by ear, but I regret now that I never learned to read music properly.
I just learned backside airs, and I was trying to tweak them out.
Micki, another of Mont's followers, recalls her uncles and aunts occasionally peppering their Spanish with unfamiliar words and phrases, which she later learned were from Ladino, a Judeo-Spanish dialect.
I require that the essay focuses on what they have read and learned from writers - writerly concepts from, say, Pound, Levertov, Eliot, Rich, Webb and others (Geddes).

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