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Haven’t you any uninstructive thoughts for warm evenings?”

From The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted by Barrett, Katharine Ellis

And an exhibition by specimen of the nonsense to which they have in this way committed themselves in their haste, may not be wholly uninstructive.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh

Letters passed now and then, laggard and uninstructive as such letters must be, and they grew rarer and briefer as time went on.

From Strangers at Lisconnel by Barlow, Jane

It is not difficult, but will be found very entertaining and not uninstructive.

From Amusements in Mathematics by Dudeney, Henry Ernest

From the ruins I passed to the town, and spent a not uninstructive half-hour in sauntering along the streets in the quiet of the evening, acquainting myself with the general aspect of the people.

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)