...While I was in the Ætna particularly, the captain'sclerk taught me to write, and gave me a smattering of arithmetic asfar as the rule of three... 
Olaudah Equiano 「The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African」
...I soon learned that most of them had the merest smattering of the high-sounding things that they had studied...
Booker T. Washington 「Up From Slavery: An Autobiography」
...' Those who had found mensa too much for them came to me to get a smattering of grammar...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...Young men having a smattering of English, yet wholly unable to converse, set up as teachers...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...People withmore judgment, and a smattering ofscientific knowledge, dismissed thething as some harmless meteorologicalmanifestation that, while interesting,was not necessarily dangerous...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930」
...The increased difficulty in teaching science owing tothe modern ignorance of even a smattering of Greek is becominggrotesque...
Oliver Lodge 「Pioneers of Science」
...Monroe said he quitted reluctantly, he seemed to have gained some smattering of our language, certain words of which he occasionally blended with his own...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1」
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