Or, if you were about to embark upon a nautical career, here was all the information required.

It also told you how to write on all occasions, how to take out a patent, how to doctor a horse, and who Achates was.

You could, if you were ambitious to round out your education, memorize certain popular foreign phrases.
But beyond "amicable agreement in which mutual concessions are made," the word "compromise" was as blank as the Canton wall at night.

There were words, then, that ran on indefinitely, with reversals?
Here they meant one thing; there, the exact opposite.

To be sure, Ruth had dimly been aware of this; but now for the first time she was made painfully conscious of it.