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    object lesson


    1. The blunders of the Santiago campaign proved the weakness of the system, and undoubtedly the object lesson will prove valuable, and should leave the army in the hands of trained soldiers rather than politicians


    2. Despite the exodus of invalids, shipped North on dirty transports supplied with hardtack, canned meat, and foul water, to become an object lesson to the American people of the effect of Cuban climate and official negligence, 4122 soldiers were on the sick list in Cuba on July 24th


    3. Third, the congress made a motion in its minutes inviting church members to attend the Cotton States and International Exposition that presented “trades and handicrafts,” which stood as “magnificent object lessons of the capacity and ability of the Afro-American” and “which speak so eloquently for the race


    4. Groans and cries from the slaves satisfied the camp commander that his object lesson was succeeding


    5. NOTE TO READERS: There are a whole LOT of object lessons and spiritual points I


    6. (another object lesson for a later date


    7. What difference would yet another object lesson of universal death along with civilization’s end make? About as much as the last one, and the one before, and before that


    8. " It was a pretty good object lesson on the power of the system which the organization had built up, how Murtha, and even the more distant Dorgan himself, had endeared himself to his followers and henchmen


    9. And those fools in the Boston courts, those devil worshipers, those heathens! They awarded her money in damages when she sued the theater owner! They should have whipped her in public in front of the theater as an object lesson to all other Negroes


    10. Duval ordered his body left on the timber for the night as an object lesson

    11. The entire experiment has become an encapsulated bible and object lesson on the destruction of Natural ecosystems caused by human intervention


    12. They will refuse to believe you: even though their own lives are object lessons in how selfishness produces unhappiness


    13. Transparent diamonds are an object lesson for us


    14. The entire Universe is an object lesson of what happens to you when you avoid hardship


    15. were always meant to serve as an object lesson to those of the far future about the inescapable errors


    16. The object lessons that flow


    17. I shook my head, as I thought to myself how odd it was that the battles and torments of one’s own past could become the object lessons and encouragements needed to help the younger generation through the difficulties they faced in the present


    18. total ruin AS AN OBJECT LESSON FOR THE UNGODLY IN FUTURE DAYS"


    19. It was a pity they wouldn’t live long enough to learn from their own object lesson, but he could live with that


    20. It was remarkable, really, how Camp Chihiro’s inmates’ treatment had improved after that object lesson

    21. For here he was the next day—having just received an object lesson in the vanity of material attachments—sneaking off to the laundrette around the corner to wash all his worldly possessions with a box of vending-machine soap because Western culture had trained him to hate his own, natural smell


    22. I was in the midst of an object lesson in the Buddhist concept of “suffering,” which in this case could be roughly translated into “Be careful what you wish for


    23. The spectacle of what the Society is doing for the Chinese, especially of what it ought to have the power and the commission given it to do, is fitted to be peculiarly impressive, as an object lesson, to the nation


    24. In this, we may well give somewhat of theoretical instruction through lectures and even text-books; but more important than this, and not incompatible with it, is that effective teaching which comes by working out the practical object lesson of a thoroughly well tilled farm, as is done at Hampton, and to a less degree, as yet, at Tougaloo and Talladega


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