Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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While all will acknowledge that undoubted advantages are derived from the writing of themes, the system of invariably giving low marks, the custom of correcting an exercise until it resembles a map of Ancient Greece or a Chinese wash-bill, certainly has its bad results...
...afraid it was not quite clear. Well, to begin with, you remember that the decuriones - But to go back a little. You remember that when the Aryan nations came from the plain of - Perhaps I had better take the pointer and point it out to you on the map...
...have n't any pointer nor any map...
...wonder at people who go into ecstasies over it. It is not grand mountain scenery, but it is the perfection of natural beauty. But that afternoon, lying there on the topmost rock, with all that fair lake, with its hundreds of islands and inlets, stretched like a map before me, I could drink in none of the peacefulness of the scene. For I saw again that look upon Edmund Austen's face - that look that I have seen so often since; the look I cannot at all understand...