Smatterings Sentence Examples

smatterings

  • He had received from his father the smatterings of a liberal education, but until the outbreak of the Revolution he was a domestic servant, and from 1785 occupied the invidious office of cornmissaire a terrier, his function being to assist the nobles and priests in the assertion of their feudal rights as against the unfortunate peasants.

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  • There 's a little vaudeville in there, smatterings of jazz, and a healthy dose of snotty punk.

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  • A 15th century nobleman 's palace, there are smatterings of period furniture and trompe l'oeil walls in what is quite a denuded exhibit.

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