| 单词 | hornbook |
| 例句 | She had memorized the hornbook in a few day’s time and sped through the primer. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z With a black kitten cradled in her hands, Prudence watched them find a safe comer for the hornbook. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z At the bottom of one of them, she had remembered, was a little hornbook. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Matthew lifted his eyes from the hornbook to his niece’s white face. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z In all her short life the child had seldom seen, and certainly never held in her hands, anything so lovely as the exquisite little silver hornbook. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The child sighed and held out the hornbook obediently. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z It was not the hornbook, as she expected. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z That’s “hornbook law” — so basic it doesn’t require citation for law students. Column: Trump may believe in his own Big Lie, but that shouldn't save him from a guilty verdict for election tampering 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z In the early 1600s, a child’s first book in New England was called a hornbook, a board in the shape of a paddle upon which was written the Lord’s Prayer and the alphabet. Secularism isn’t working 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z While hornbooks present information in a more straightforward manner, they will also contain nuances your professor doesn't care about. How to Prepare for First-Year Law School Classes 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z In the appendix to my Products Liability hornbook, I show how competitive considerations will lead manufacturers to implement many efficient quality control measures even in the absence of liability to injured users. General Motors: Poster Child for Products Liability 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Damaris had been sent with the other children to be instructed in the morning by Mrs. Brewster in sampler working and knitting; by her husband in the Westminster catechism, and the hornbook. A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z Her heart gave a great bound, and looking up from the children's hornbook in glad surprise, she smiled gratefully on him. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z Thrift was the first lesson in their hornbook, pointed out, letter after letter, by the lean finger of the hard schoolmaster, Necessity. Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z Take turn as they in hornbook stand, From great A down to &, In equal parts the pye divide, As you may see on t'other side. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z But I swear to thee I never read through the hornbook of the heavens. The Book of Khalid She sat at her work, with Kate at her hornbook beside her, when the door was unlatched, and Isoult heard her husband’s well-known voice say,—“Come in,—you shall see her now.” Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution It was difficult to get books in those days, and a hornbook would last a long time. Stories of New Jersey Expects her betters to go and learn their hornbook of her. The King's Daughters I will lay thee a broad shilling, child, I read her off like thou shouldst a hornbook when I see her. Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada Thus was Amber instructed and amused; and thus, with nature for his hornbook, and art for his primer, did the little parlour of Edward Forster expand into “the universe.” Newton Forster The Merchant Service In this picture the schoolboy is seen arriving with his satchel and being presented with a hornbook by Nicostrata, the Latin muse Carmentis, who changed the Greek alphabet into the Latin. Life in the Medieval University They also tell of the use of the hornbook and the sun-dial, describe the making of soap and candles, and so forth. A Mother's List of Books for Children So one of my mother's chief cares was to teach me my letters, which I learnt from big A to "Ampusand" in the old hornbook at Lantrig. Dead Man's Rock In Time's hornbook ambition is an early lesson, and these scholars had conned it well. Sir Mortimer Timbs will find an account of hornbooks, with a woodcut of one of the time of Queen Elizabeth, in Mr. Halliwell's Notices of Fugitive Tracts, printed by the Percy Society, 1849. Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850 Hornbooks.—Can either of your numerous intelligent readers give me an account of the hornbooks from which our ancestors learned their letters? Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850 Antonyms: See increase. abatement, n. moderation, diminution, reduction, subsidence, decrease. a b c. alphabet, symbols; rudiments, elements, first principles. a b c book. primer, hornbook. abdomen, n. belly, paunch. Putnam's Word Book I have that hornbook still, ——"Covered with pellucid horn, To save from fingers wet the letters fair." Dead Man's Rock Thus was Amber instructed and amused: and thus, with nature for his hornbook, and art for his primer, did the little parlour of Edward Forster expand into the "universe." Newton Forster I have seen one in which he carries his hornbook in his hand. Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts As he went about he could easily take up his hornbook once in a while and say over to himself the letters and the rows of syllables. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 Who would be always reciting from a hornbook to Mistress Minerva? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Inadventurous, unstirred by impulses of practical ambition, I was capable of sitting twenty years teaching infants the hornbook, turning silk dresses and making children's frocks. Villette And, Captain Borroughcliffe, as you appear to be forgetting the use of your own language, here is even a hornbook for you! The Pilot There is a little maid from Bemerton, who comes daily to learn her hornbook and her sampler. Grisly Grisell First of all in the little book came the alphabet and the lists of syllables, as in the hornbook. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 Simply dame-schools, with the hornbook for boys and girls, and perhaps a little sewing for the latter. The Infant System For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age The other two were perfectly ignorant, but Mrs. Aylward procured hornbooks, primers, and slates, and Aurelia began their education in a small way. Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume I gave him credit both for his ignorance of the very hornbook of honor and for his large share of the milk of human kindness. To Have and to Hold I remember the lessons of childhood, you see, And the hornbook I learn'd on my poor mother's knee. Lucile At the beginning of the first line of letters in the hornbooks was placed a cross, as the symbol of Christianity, and from this fact the first line was called the Christ-cross, or criss-cross row. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 As soon as he was able to remember the first little things that children are taught, his mother would fasten to his belt a string from which was suspended what she would call his hornbook. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 |
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