What is "beginner"

Usage examples of "beginner".

He was a beginner at this sort of work, and he knew Seleva and Lemmon could handle anyone who threatened to disrupt their efforts.

The youthful Baletti was a beginner, and so knew nothing of these things.

In the foot-packed clay area beyond the rough stacked stones and the space where Cessya and Huldran alternated splitting the slates for roofing tiles, Istril and Ryba were working at blade practice, using the wooden wands that were far safer for beginners.

They left together, an experienced shuffler and a fairly capable beginner.

In order that I might be able to stay at the table, I took up the cards and punted three or four ducats like a beginner.

We go to one of the deepest sub-levels of the Extravagance Building, where there is a special hyperoxygenated pool, for the use of beginners only, circular in shape and not at all deep.

I can be to as many people as possible, I have written this book with both the serious beginner and the experienced meditator in mind.

For the use of beginners a brief field color key to genera of some of the common Passerine birds is given in an appendix.

And I might go on to show in some detail that a doctoral investigation in the humanities, when the subject is well chosen, serves the same purpose in the education of a student of language and literature as the independent, intensive study of a living or a fossil animal, when prescribed by Agassiz to a beginner in natural science.

Dry Goods, she purchased a magazine dedicated to crocheting, a half-dozen skeins of thick yarn and a fat wooden crochet hook as big around as her finger, which the sales clerk assured her was best for a beginner to use.

His bringing of the disturbing passages into juxtaposition where they could readily be compared proclaimed that even beginners in dialectic could, by selecting the right passages from the doctrinists, bolster either side of fundamental arguments.

And there remained to carry on the legend of the Grindleys and the Appleyards only Nathaniel George, now aged five, and Janet Helvetia, quite a beginner, who took lift seriously.

But sentiment, still more than love, forbids me to deprive Lucrezia of the proof of my gratitude, and I turn to her with all the rapture of a beginner, feeling that my ardour is increased by Angelique's ecstasy, as for the first time she witnesses the amorous contest.

In addition to the rummage sales, every Tuesday afternoon her group knitted for the troops, in the drawing room—washcloths for the beginners, scarves for the intermediates, balaclavas and gloves for the experts.

As for Latin, she had managed to move beyond the flagrant guessing that is the hallmark of most beginners.