He brought with him, indeed, so much more than himself-brought a whole world of recollected wonders, of all that other time when Ernest Henry had other things to do, other disciplines, other triumphs, other defeats, and other glories.
"The Golden Scarecrow"
Hugh Walpole
It also disciplines the feelings and emotions and offers opportunity for emulation, industry, and the display of both physical and mental power.
"Parent and Child Vol. III., Child Study and Training"
Mosiah Hall
And therfore the poets feined not their fables in vain, considering that children in time of their first studies, are very much allured thereby to proceed to more grave and deepe studies and disciplines, whereas their mindes would quickly loath the wise and prudent workes of learned men, wherein in such unripe years they take no spark of delectation at all.
"The Golden Asse"
Lucius Apuleius