He was a sensitive, fine soul alert to the pleasures of being green, a tyro, an amateur, unwilling to close his mind before it had been tempted. From LearnThat.org. [Paul West]
White was a tyro in politics and public administration. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Remember that you cannot bluff even a tyro out of "fours.". From Wordnik.com. [Round Games with Cards A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice] Reference
Rochas, which I had read in tyro fashion in other and busier days. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
"You ain't exactly what they call a tyro, are you?" says the bland-faced man; "but I guess you've missed the mark this shot. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
How does "tyro" apply to Milt Kahl at the point in time of that story?. From Wordnik.com. [M. Kahl] Reference
Apparently from the looks of that watercolor Art Riley was no "tyro" any more than your dad was, Steve!. From Wordnik.com. ["Got Any Good Art Riley Stories?"] Reference
But it's a movie dominated by Orson Welles - "tyro" and "enfant terrible" of the American theater. From Wordnik.com. [SplicedFeed] Reference
The tyro dropped an acute, if indiscreet, observation. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
In the party out after reed birds was a tyro at the sport. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
"We'll begin now!" cried the little tyro enthusiastically. From Wordnik.com. [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference
Then, being no tyro in love, he told her he had business in. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
Swiftly both captives were secured, and with no tyro hands. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
The tyro in composition should never seek after the heavy style. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
In the Supplement to his Dictionary it is explained "docilis, tyro!". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850] Reference
But this highly dangerous work had better not be attempted by the tyro. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
As the trapper had said, the merest tyro could easily have followed such. From Wordnik.com. [With Trapper Jim in the North Woods] Reference
A few words of advice to the tyro may not, in conclusion, be out of place. From Wordnik.com. [Round Games with Cards A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice] Reference
A spaceman could take this -- knowing it wasn't real -- but a tyro could not. From Wordnik.com. [The Lani People] Reference
With a patronizing smile he consented to play with a tyro like Meinheer Schatt. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
The veriest tyro of a weather prophet could see that a storm was about to break. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
Indeed, the superiority is so marked that it is apparent to the merest tyro in music. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.] Reference
Each experiment will bring annoyance, as the tyro may find as he plods on in his task. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
But I'm only a tyro yet; Kearn Thode can give you the details far better than I can. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
The tyro who tries your patience this year, will very likely become an expert reader the next. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
These things being noted and borne in mind will save the tyro a considerable amount of trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
In the public telling of an anecdote the tyro would be well advised to follow the first method. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
Then proceeded with much apparent thought and deliberation, to play the hand like the veriest tyro. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
Branagh is still a tyro playwright, resorting to ploys like using an aging boozy journalist as narrator. From Wordnik.com. [Big Names, Small Stages] Reference
Perhaps the tyro may remark, "But in a preserved and stuffed skin there ought to be no fat to ooze out.". From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
He was no tyro at the business, and he was up to all the tricks and devices of the modern science of criminal detection. From Wordnik.com. [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference
Ahmadinejad is not a budding Stalin, many experts suggest, but merely a grossly inexperienced, unpolished political tyro. From Wordnik.com. [Religion Versus Reality] Reference
This has peculiar charm for the tyro because of its supposed originality, but it is really as old as story telling itself. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
A tyro -- or even a nervous 'season' -- might have been excused for expecting at every moment we were going to be derailed. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
This is not strictly a technical term, but the tyro should note that the persons seated at the table are not necessarily all players. From Wordnik.com. [Round Games with Cards A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice] Reference
Some authors purposely use slang to give emphasis and spice in familiar and humorous writing, but they should not be imitated by the tyro. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
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