347 examples of illiterates in sentences

In view of the fact that she did accomplish her mission, the voices which inspired this illiterate peasant to deliver France are not to be derided.

In Norway you are scarcely ever out of sight of a schoolhouse, and Professor Nielsen, of the university, on being asked concerning the ratio of the illiterates, looked surprised and replied that he was not aware of any illiterates; that he did not recollect having seen any statistics on the subject, and ventured to assert that anybody in Norway could both read and write.

In Norway you are scarcely ever out of sight of a schoolhouse, and Professor Nielsen, of the university, on being asked concerning the ratio of the illiterates, looked surprised and replied that he was not aware of any illiterates; that he did not recollect having seen any statistics on the subject, and ventured to assert that anybody in Norway could both read and write.

Nor was he indisposed to believe in the care of a Divine Providence, or in its justice, though less believing in this respect than the illiterate but earnest-minded seaman who stood at his side.

The number of illiterates being very high (98 per cent.), letters are comparatively few.

The franchise being within the reach of every one who chose to stretch out a hand and grasp it, might at any time be claimed by vast numbers of persons who had recently been slaves, and were still generally illiterate.

A great poet who appears in illiterate times, absorbs into his sphere all the light which is anywhere radiating.

No illiterates will be found among them.

They cannot denythey do not denythat for this night they are our sisters: gentle or simple, scholar or illiterate servant, for twelve hours to comewe on the outside have the honor to be their brothers.

He wished, I imagine, to give some idea to the young illiterates of the simple laws of motion and force.

Whatever sort of society he lives in, whether he be surrounded by illiterate heroism or placid culture, the epic poet has a definite function to perform.

" Little Bel was too loyal at heart to her illiterate mother to wound her further by reiterating her point.

Guianerius had a patient could make Latin verses when the moon was combust, otherwise illiterate.

A man of his birth, a man of his taste, a man of his talents, a man of his habits, can have nothing in common with such miserable creatures as we now call Radicals, of whom I know not that I can better express the illiterate and blind ignorance and vulgarity than by saying that the best informed of them have probably never heard of Lord Byron.

The syndic was her tenant, and bowed down to her, and the rest of the illiterate officials followed his lead.

Given this better working basis, they secured from the ranks of the Catholics additional catechists and teachers to give a larger number of illiterates the fundamentals of education.

The total number of illiterates recorded is 246,546,176, leaving 47,814,180 of both sexes unaccounted for, but of these only 12,097,530 are returned as able to read and write.

The allowance for labor, in addition to their maintenance, is twenty-five cents per day; but they require those illiterate men to advance the whole before they can leave the prison, and then to take a certificate for their labor, and go for it to another departmentto collect which, is ten times more trouble than the money when received is worth.

Yet, alphabetic script is used only in cases in which illiterate adults have to be enabled in a short time to read very simple informations.

of the population are still illiterate, mainly on account of the inadequacy of the educational budget.

In the case of the illiterate country inhabitants, with an income from land of less than £12 a year, fifty of them choose one delegate having one vote in the parliamentary election.

"It's a term applied to most of the town of Partridgeville in the northern part of the countyan inaccessible district back in the mountains peopled with gone-to-seed stock and half-civilized illiterates who only get into the news when they load up with squirrel whisky and start a programme of progressive hell.

MOONLIGHT SCHOOLS, for the emancipation of adult illiterates, by Cora Wilson Stewart.

MOONLIGHT SCHOOLS, for the emancipation of adult illiterates, by Cora Wilson Stewart.

How wily were these illiterates in the pursuit of gamehow ready in an emergency!

347 examples of  illiterates  in sentences