He was deeply versed in the lore of stamps, and his private ambition was to become the possessor of a "blue Mauritius."

Youthful Richard had strange fancies, Was deep versed in old romances, And could talk whole hours upon

She is a very amiable and accomplished young lady; she has a thorough knowledge of music and of painting in oils, and is classically versed in the Italian language.

Your lordship therefore is to be presumed competently versed in the rudiments of ethics.

Here is a fragment of The Royal Empress, which is by no means despicably versed:

He is extreamly well versed in all the little Handicrafts of an idle Man: He makes a May-fly to a Miracle; and furnishes the whole Country with Angle-Rods.

Wood himself confesses, who was an avowed enemy to Marvel, 'that Dr. Parker judged it more prudent rather to lay down the cudgels, than to enter the lists again, with an untowardly combatant, so hugely well versed, and experienced, in the then newly refined art of sporting, and jeering buffoonery.'

Among its treasures may be English walnut shells, gilded and tied together, with fortune verses inside.

He was therefore intimately versed in the history of these times.

They are little versed in Scripture that know not that it is frequently called light; and they are senseless that know not that light is seen and known by itself.

RUTHWELL CROSS, a remarkable sandstone cross, 17¾ ft. high, found in Ruthwell parish, 9 m. SE. of Dumfries; dates back to the 7th century; bears runic and Latin inscriptions, notably some verses of the Saxon poem, "The Dream of the Holy Rood"; was broken down in 1642 by the Covenanters as savouring of idolatry; found and re-erected in 1802.

He was profoundly versed in all the learning the Grecians ever taught.

The common people were rarely versed in the mysteries of reading and writing, and even the wives of the gentry were often only able to make their marks instead of signing their names.[30] The little villages in which they dwelt were pretty places, with wide, shaded streets.

He was a man of some pretence to classic education, and superficially versed in lore of title, date, and editio princeps.

This is not a mere theorist or dreamer talking, says Burton Roscoe in commenting on Admiral Scott's statements; it is the one man in England most supremely versed in naval tactics, the man to whom all nations owe the present effectiveness of the broadside of eight, twelve and fourteen inch guns and the perfection in sighting long range guns.

Boston at this time was a flourishing town of probably about ten thousand or twelve thousand people, governed practically by the Calvinistic ministers, and composed chiefly of merchants, fishermen, and ship-carpenters, yet all tolerably versed in the rudiments of education and in theological speculations.

For instance, the poets feign that King Atlas bore the heavens on his shoulders, meaning only that he was unusually versed in high astronomy.

Dryden, citing approvingly Denham's verses to Fanshawe, "They but preserve his ashes, thou his flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame," says, with his usual pithiness, "Too faithfully is indeed pedantically.

I should have calmly yielded to the Prince Who is most wonderfully versed in war.

I suppose he has written a report about those beastly verses.