"Tuition" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tuition of this young damsel I made astonishingly rapid progress as a student of the language spoken by those around me, and was soon able to converse in it with a very fair amount of freedom. Meanwhile ...
— A Middy of the Slave Squadron - A West African Story • Harry Collingwood
... John Allan. Mr. Allan, who had married an American lady and settled in Virginia, was childless. He therefore took naturally to the brilliant and beautiful little boy, treated him as his son, and made him take his own surname. Edgar Allan, as he was now styled, after some elementary tuition in Richmond, was taken to England by his adopted parents, and, in 1816, placed at the ...
— Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works • Edgar Allan Poe
... schoolboy, who had been under Dr. Jerks, near Doncaster, for two years and a quarter, and had learnt all As in Praesenti by heart. The terms of this school were [pounds]10 a year for food, books, board, clothes and tuition.—Foote, ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer
... Singer's ex-servants in our house in six years, and they have all told their troubles. Mrs. Singer trains girls for the entire town. She's twice as good as a domestic science school, and she doesn't charge any tuition. She is devoting her life to the training up of perfect hired girls, and we revel in the results. It is ungrateful of us to blame her for taking away our hired girls, because, as a matter of fact, she is our greatest blessing. Right at this minute in Homeburg I know ...
— Homeburg Memories • George Helgesen Fitch
... September, 1865, the Government ordered surveillance of all gambling houses, to discover if disbursing officers were gambling. This was my first experience in the art. It was a free school, for the tuition was on Uncle Sam. The lessons have served me all my life, and I have never wanted to ...
— Between the Lines - Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After • Henry Bascom Smith
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