My conscience tells me I have on every occasion acted up to that declaration according to its obvious import and to the understanding of every candid mind.

More than one half of Germany's total imports are raw materials for manufactures, about two-thirds of her exports being manufactured goods.

This retort had all the effect, and produced the same surprise as the most brilliant display of wit or fancy: yet it was only the detecting a flaw in an argument, like a flaw in an indictment, by a kind of legal pertinacity, or rather by a rigid and constant habit of attending to the exact import of every word and clause in a sentence.

That was the import, tremendous and beautiful.

None of the members can preach; nobody in the congregation can preach; and their only hope at present consists in the foreign import trade.

There are rumours of a secret consultation with the German Chancellor, but that is of little import in this place.

Words of grave import were even heard, denouncing those who refused to restore to Antonio his child; and it was whispered on the deck of the Bucentaur, that, filled with the imaginary importance of their passing victory, the hardy band of rioters had dared to menace a forcible appeal, to obtain what they audaciously termed the justice of the case.

And, beginning to realize the awful import of his words, the only thing that restrained her from instant flight on foot was the hidden Clarence.

We hear of occasional great reformers, but forget that there has been a prevailing influence extending over the ages, of holy men of God, who have preached and taught and prayed; who have preserved our social institutions of spiritual import, and have been a mighty and continuous force working for righteousness and peace.

Venice better, my daughter," Girolamo answered gravely, for to him every detail connected with his art was of vital import.

We have been trained for nearly a century and a half to measure the validity and obligations of laws and executive acts in Courts of Justice and to apply the plain import of the Constitution.

But an emergency of this momentous import must be discussed in plain terms, however disconcerting the details, and Mrs. Eubanks had nerved herself for the ordeal.

The precise import of this line is not, I think, entirely plain at first sight.

It is thus possible to construct a story, even of tragic import, in which every incident, detail and trick of circumstance shall be welcome to the reader's thoughts.

Terrapin-buzzards was bad enough, though it was true that this might be used innocently, as in a moment of mild dismay, or as an exclamation of mere astonishment without sinister import.

And Rudolph Musgrave knew he had forgotten something of vast import, but what this knowledge had pertained to he no longer knew.

But deeper than that lies the study of the influence of the myth on the individual and national mind, on the progress and destiny of those who believed it, in other words, its true religious import.

The audience evidently feels their solemn import.

One day he spoke to me alone; and, with a look of mysterious but terrible import, expressed himself thus: "Young man, take warning!

He went on to say: "This idea you have of making a Negro out of yourself is nothing more than a sentiment; and you do not realize the fearful import of what you intend to do.

And there in that tirtha, those Brahmanas old in knowledge and ascetic merit and fully versed in the Vedas, that constituted the court of the illustrious sons of Pandu, talked in their presence upon various subjects of sacred import.

Every swing of the sledge, every plunge into water, every friction on the grindstone, was a religious act of no slight import.

"I did not at the time take in the full meaning, the hidden import of his words.

They commend practical action to a class of minds little developed in the direction of the sentiments, which would be repelled by formulas of a broader and nobler import.

"Take it to heart; it is of weighty import."