What is "reads"

Usage examples of "reads".

After all, every Italian reads Algarotti with pleasure, although his works are full of French idioms.

Now, I am still looking at you, and, in spite of myself, my soul reads upon your countenance that you are guilty, that you have outraged my love.

Government orders the effacement of an inscription on the church door which everybody reads, and which speaks of the head of the Roman Church in this manner.

But my niece, gentlemen, reads and reflects over what she has read, perhaps with rather too much freedom, but I love her all the same, because she always ends by acknowledging that she knows nothing.

He will be convinced of my repentance when he reads the letter I shall bedew with my tears, but he must not know of my whereabouts till he has promised to forgive me.

The pages of the books she reads become to her like paintings, to which her imaginative powers give life and color.

This sort of training has developed in Edith that creative and organizing force which marks the difference between the pupil who can originate and conceive new thoughts and ideas and the one who either unconsciously repeats or merely remembers, imitates and copies what he is told or what he reads on the printed page.

He also reads in English literature and makes very helpful suggestions.

Polly reads me the titles, spells the dialogue, and describes the facial expressions and the costumes, which is pretty rapid work.

She can spell, and she reads letters to me, she types, she drives the car, and is a real help to Herbert.

It looks upon the hero as an illustration in the story of the war, which it reads like history.

When the public which has been present reads the inaccurate report, it loses confidence in the newspaper.

I say that whoever prints a book exposes himself to great danger, since it is utterly impossible to write in a way that will satisfy and please everyone who reads it.

I was known for fine needlework, my lady the duchess, who had recently married my lord the duke, offered to bring me, as well as my daughter, to this kingdom of Aragon, where the days passed, and my daughter grew and was endowed with all the graces in the world: she sings like a lark, dances court dances like a lightning flash and country dances like a whirlwind, reads and writes like a schoolmaster, and counts like a miser.

Then who that reads the Proverbs attentively can help seeing, that some of them are much plainer, and calculated to be much more useful, than others.