The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn vocabulary

Having never before taken any interest in educational questions, Alexey Alexandrovitch devoted some time to the theoretical study of the subject. After reading several books on anthropology, education, and didactics, Alexey Alexandrovitch drew up a plan of education, and engaging the best tutor in Petersburg to superintend it, he set to work, and the subject continually absorbed him.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)

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I am informed by the lady who superintended her education, and who still resides with them.

Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)

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An alternative view might recognize near-plenary control of Congress to lay down military rules, so long as Congress understands that it is the president and no one else who must ultimately superintend the execution of these military rules.

Akhil Reed Amar. America's Constitution: A Biography (2005)

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she bent to superintend his studies;

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)