"Terence," she said, Lessoning him with her bony, long forefinger, "you're just young enough to be wise about women.
"Black Jack"
Max Brand
A pleasant pastime it was, this worldly Lessoning; but I forgot that he was partly a reproduction of his Catholic mother; that where I stood rugged he would fall; that he did not possess ardor that is without fire, love that is without sentiment.
"The Grey Cloak"
Harold MacGrath
"That is where I would be," she concluded, as one patiently Lessoning a dull pupil, and reseated the baby in its coach in obvious preparation for departure.
"A Man's Hearth"
Eleanor M. Ingram