learning by heart

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Then slowly, as one learning by heart who looks not about him, he took his way towards Sallertaine and on from thence to Chalons.

From Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field by Bazin, Ren?

This facility of learning by heart, and the habit of dreamy recitation, made me very familiar with the Bible and very apt with its phrases.

From Annie Besant An Autobiography by Besant, Annie Wood

The clergyman walked backwards and forwards, learning by heart from the written sheets he held in his hand.

From In God's Way A Novel by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne

"But what's the story to be, master Shanks?" asked Tom Cutter, "I can't learn a long one; I never was good at learning by heart."

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

I fancied it was a preacher learning by heart his sermon, or an actor his part.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 by Various