learn by heart , also: learn something (off) by heart

But I know how many of my generation hated learning by heart.

It was an old friend, that spell, long since learned by heart.

Right now it was playing a soap commercial David had learned by heart.

It is a very great safeguard to learn by heart instead of writing.

She is the subject of some verses which I wrote down and learned by heart.

There was silence in the room as the girls worked away, reading, making notes, learning by heart.

Songs have to be learned by heart and performed on stage.

You can learn by heart the collect for the day."

He learned by heart when he was eight years old.

Learning by heart was standard procedure in ancient and medieval education.

The girl looked upward a moment, as if recalling a lesson she had learned by heart.

"I was given 60 pages to learn by heart and recite.

She was obviously saying something she had thought over a thousand times and learned by heart.

Those speeches were often learned by heart; certainly, each argument had been worked out in precise detail.

Her voice sounded stilted, as if the words had been learned by heart for the dramatic society's play.

He would entertain them with a song he had just learned by heart.

All of them are learned by heart that contributes to unity and artistic expression.

Theodore looked down at the note once more, though by now he certainly had it learned by heart.

This, clearly, was all her Persian, learned by heart.

You miss the old geography, which expected you to learn by heart the location of the 48 states.

What was required was lots of learning by heart.

Get them repeating what they've learnt by heart through reciting it from the board?

I remember that same year learning by heart a poem called "Richard Cory."

Then they began to recite the poems learned by heart in class - and out of class.

I have a fellow who has written down a few words and phrases that five thousand men have to learn by heart.