He also gained a thorough acquaintance with the French language.

But the king's French advisers were aware that Spain required a thorough financial and administrative reform.

Its evolution and the thorough application of its principles to actual church life came later, not in Saxony or Switzerland, but in France and Scotland; and through Scotland it has passed to all English-speaking lands.

There the education was more thorough, and the discipline stricter, than at Brienne.

In 1834 James Smith of Deanston promulgated his system of thorough draining and deep ploughing, the adoption of which immeasurably improved the clay lands of the country.