Example Sentences

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The clerks from the gastronomical store danced with all the ardour of youth and with all the decorum recommended by Herman Hoppe, the self-instructor of good manners.

From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert

Playtime, a melodic self-instructor for the tonette, by Paul Yoder, pseud. © 21Nov38; AA287473.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1966 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

A self-instructor, whereby more speed than long-hand writing is gained at the first lesson, and additional speed at each subsequent lesson.

From An American Girl Abroad by Trafton, Adeline

And, what is most amazing, she had taken only two lessons in all from a specialist, while the rest she learned through a self-instructor, guiding herself only by the drawings supplemental to it.

From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert