object-lessons

So whenever the youth was straitened in breast by the tedium and ennui of loneliness, he applied himself diligently to his object-lessons and mastered all the deductions therefrom.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The book rockets along, but manages not only to sow unquenchable doubt about Richard's guilt in the minds of its readers, but to provide a series of brilliant object-lessons in the reading -- and construction -- of history.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2004

Is it not edifying, too, to reflect that the timid man, encouraged by the object-lessons of Nature, given in pity of his simplicity, had contrived the only rafts the resources of his island made possible?

Tropic Days 2003

The days are past when developed countries could provide object-lessons in stability to the developing countries.

The Interdependence of Nations and the Peace of Canada 1973

That unarmed four thousand miles may be one of the object-lessons of civilization, but there is a never-ceasing attack across it — that most insidious attack, the attack of influence, of a bigger civilization than our own.

The Canadian Type 1969

Frederick the Great, with every particular standing out vividly in the light of the object-lessons from that monarch's life which crowded on every hand.

In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton

It is in large Old English type, with a profusion of pictures and delightful object-lessons, and is made so fascinating that

The Nursery, No. 109, January, 1876, Vol. XIX. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Various

In large Old English type, with a profusion of pictures and delightful object-lessons. 128 pages.

The Nursery, January 1877, Volume XXI, No. 1 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Various

Sadlier and the scarcely less wretched end of Keogh -- have ever since been terrible object-lessons to the Irish people.

The Life Story of an Old Rebel John Denvir

Such frequent object-lessons made the names and surroundings of those grandees easy to remember.

The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate Eliza Poor Donner Houghton