Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison / Fifteen Years in Solitude

Most of these, with their definitions, parrotlike, I had learned to spell, but never once in all my school experience had I been taught the derivation of a single word.

He was a nice, conservative old man, and let things run on easily. His chief clerk, Mr. Ambler, was every inch a gentleman, who, quickly perceiving what an ignoramus I was, out of the goodness of his heart resolved to teach me something.

I had learned to spell, but never once in all my school experience had I been taught the derivation of a single word.