That she did not might have been taken to imply in her the rudiments of a growing conscience; or possibly of a feeling that, though she and Tommy might laugh at a person's mother, the person might well keep out of it.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
I want you children to learn at least the rudiments of good acting, and I mean to have two or three plays enacted here during the winter.
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade
They may exhibit the Indian creed in its rudiments.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham