training-up

Updated: May 4, 2025

I know of old, my dear, your meek regard to that little piddling part of the marriage-vow which some prerogative-monger foisted into the office, to make that a duty, which he knew was not a right. Our way of training-up, you say, makes us need the protection of the brave.

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2