Do we say taught or tot

taught 7887 occurrences

Experience had taught him how to think, and much suffering had filled his bosom with emotions that longed to be expressed.

Democritus of Abdera, commonly known as the Laughing Philosopher, probably because he did not consider the study of truth inconsistent with a cheerful countenance, believed and taught that all bodies were continually throwing off certain images like themselves, which subtile emanations, striking on our bodily organs, gave rise to our sensations.

His gallantry was entirely thrown away, or, if observed, only occasioned a pretty stare at the unnecessary trouble he gave himself, or the strange ceremony which she supposed an acquaintance with society had taught him.

But it's you taught me the trick of walking in that friendly way.

They did not know his name nor what he was, but it seemed he taught, and Miss Winchelsea had a shrewd idea he was an extension lecturer.

and I have taught you.

But ghosts were something in which the two brothers had been taught not to believe, and Tom exclaimed: "Huh!

But, O thou blest with length of days, those that guide the car are taught that the warrior on the car is, by all means, to be protected by his charioteer!

The earth, however, girt by the sea, boweth unto him who is ruled by a Brahmana and taught his duties by him!

But patient Margaret clasped her arms round his neck, and whispered to him that the child was so clever, so pretty, she would be a gold-mine to them in the futureonly let them get away from Ashwood, and go to London, where she could be well trained and taught.

He had been taught, half seriously, half in jest, to call Philippa his little wife, to pay her every attention, to present her with jewels and with flowers, to make her his chief study.

Norman, do you quite forget what we were taught to believe when we were childrenthat our lives were to be passed together?" "My dearest Philippa, pray spare yourself and me.

" Then he saw the gray towers and turrets of Verdun Royal rising from the trees; he thought of his childish visits to the house, and how his mother taught him to call the child Philippa his little wife.

I was only surprised when I encountered it, and no number of experiences have, as yet, taught me to fear public opinion.

The reason it took such a hold on the hearts of the people was because it taught that the individual was primary; the State, the Church, society, the family, secondary.

The women who believed in polygamy had much to say in its favor, especially in regard to the sacredness of motherhood during the period of pregnancy and lactation; a lesson of respect for that period being religiously taught all Mormons.

Your riches taught me poverty.

"It is a private school, and, if your daughter prefers, she can be taught separately from the other pupils.

And he paid a lot of money for her board, and sent her fine clothes, and arranged that she was to be taught by the pastor of the parish, and he sent friends to ask about her, but he never came himself.

Parents, on the other hand, constituted a tangible personal experience, and the presence of Granny taught that this experience was common to grown-up people as well as children.

It was the reluctance with which certain parts of the family history were told, and the total withholding of others, that taught him to be ashamed of things for which he could not be held personally responsible.

It was she who taught him to read and filled him with an awe for books and book-learning that was, perhaps, not entirely wholesome.

No wonder the "dirt-eaters" of the Carolinas could be taught to despise a race among whom creatures might be found to do that by choice which they themselves were driven to do by misery.

One has in his mind some new school-book by which Arithmetic, Grammar, or Geography are to be taught with unexampled rapidity, and his own purse to be filled in a much more easy way than by waiting for the rewards of patient industry.

Dare daughter, Miss Ann Barefield, she taught a school few miles away, 'round pas' the Post Hoffice.

tot 146 occurrences

Hic labor, hoc opus Per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum, Silvestrem tenui.

I will lead home this pretty little Tot, and tell them you are going to stay with us.

" With bonbons and funny talk he gained the favor of Tot, so that she consented to walk with him.

Know that such a remark is not to be endured, and permit me to tell you[Finding a CHICK between himself and the GAME COCK, he gently puts him aside, saying] Run to your mother, tot!

Among his books are "Just Then Something Happened," "The Story Club," "Told to the Little Tot," "Chronicles of the Little Tot," "I Rule the House," "Impertinent Poems," "Little, Songs for Two," "Rimes to be Read," "The Uncommon Commoner," and "A Patch of Pansies."

Among his books are "Just Then Something Happened," "The Story Club," "Told to the Little Tot," "Chronicles of the Little Tot," "I Rule the House," "Impertinent Poems," "Little, Songs for Two," "Rimes to be Read," "The Uncommon Commoner," and "A Patch of Pansies."

He kept the whisky in his own charge; for he intended to keep them sober; but he gave them a good strong tot all 'round first, so as to make things seem cheerful; and to get them yearning.

"Meanwhile, I had given the man from the well a stiff tot of whisky; for which he thanked me with a cheerful nod, and having emptied the glass at a draft, held his hand for the bottle, which he finished, as if it had been so much water.

But Smirre couldn't endure the humiliation of his failure to get the better of such a little tot, so he lay down under the tree, that he might keep a close watch on him.

De tot generibus operum quid utique ad piscaturam respexit ut, ab illa in apostolos sumeret Simonem et filios Zebedaei ...

Here are Tot, Tom and Toby: There are lots of things to see; There are dogs and cats and horses and goats, As happy as they can be.

Aussi tot la chaloupe fut armee pour aller chercher ceux qui s'etoient sauvez le long du rivage.

Beside the dead boy sat his sister, a tot of three, with blood trickling from a flesh- wound in her face.

"I was a tot when I seen the soldiers coming dressed in blue, and I run.

DANIEL Quot homines tot sententiae.

"The preposition TO (in Dutch written TOE and TOT, a little nearer to the original) is the Gothic substantive

My father was named William Henry Stith, and I was a little tot less than two years old when my mother died.

Believing in the old remedy for exhaustion and exposure to cold, the army served out a tot of rum every day to the men.

Tot, tibi, sunt, Virgo, dotes, quot, sidera, Caelo.

quæ tot produxit alumnos Quot gremio nutrit Granta, quot.

For more evidence of the belief in were-wolves, or rather in were-animals of various sorts, particularly were-tigers, in the East Indies, see J.J. M. de Groot, "De Weertijger in onze Koloniën en op het oostaziatische Vasteland," Bijdragen tot de Taal-

549-585; G.P. Rouffaer, "Matjan Gadoengan," Bijdragen tot de Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië 1. (1899) pp.

568-587; L.M.F. Plate, "Bijdrage tot de kennis van de lykanthropie bij de Sasaksche bevolking in Oost-Lombok," Tijdschrift voor

The Quartermaster was waiting here for us when we rendezvoused, and every man had a full ration and a tot of rum.

Then a round and ruddy face rose like a harvest moon above the tailboard, and a stertorous voice replied respectfully "Sir?" "Let down this tailboard; load this officer's platoon into the lorry; issue them with a Maconochie and a tot of rum apiece; and don't forget to put Smee under arrest for dangerous driving when we get back to billets.

Do we say   taught   or  tot